When I first started looking into the grooming gang scandal five years ago nobody was interested in taking my reports. I had exclusive interviews with survivors and campaigners.
I was able to prove that the crisis was still ongoing and I could show new information about the data and the extent of this national scandal. When I started making a documentary I pitched it to every media house in London and nobody was interested.
Charlie Peters speaks to a victim of Britain’s Pakistani grooming gangs
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In one newspaper, an editor told us that they weren’t bothered and did not want a film about Muslims being made by a white man.
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However when I pitched to GB News they were totally different. Rather than showing me the door, they clearly cared deeply about the victims and were open to hearing about what I had found and seeking the truth.
They commissioned our investigation and they gave me the time and the resources to properly research one of the worst atrocities in modern British history.
With the backing of GB News and its fearless approach to speaking to unheard voices and neglected people right across the country we produced a truly national investigation into this scandal.
We recommended and inspired government policy with the then Home Secretary Suella Braverman who then launched a Grooming Gangs Taskforce in April 2023.
That taskforce made over 550 arrests in its first year, it has made further arrests since and has protected thousands of innocents.
Without GB News being brave enough to talk about this problem when everybody else wanted to look the other way and neglect the crisis, that taskforce would have never been launched and those victims would have never had that protection.
GB News is, truly, the fearless home of free speech, fighting for all people around the United Kingdom.
This is a national scandal and its always required a national response. Hearing from all the people who might make a difference, who might get involved and who might now speak out about the issue.
All too often people have tried to drown out coverage of this crisis by referring to it as a ‘racist’ issue but GB News was brave enough to push past that to defend its reporting to stand up for its investigations and to prove not just to the media and the politicians but also to the whole country that we needed to do this.
I am proud to work at GB News – the People’s Channel – which believes in freedom of speech but also fearless investigative journalism.