Greater Manchester Police and Oldham Council have said they are “deeply sorry” after a report said both failed to protect girls from grooming gangs between 2011 and 2014 and “missed opportunities” to protect a girl who tried to raise the alarm.
The girl, identified only by the pseudonym Sophie, was 12 when she first went into a police station in Oldham and reported having been raped by an Asian man in October 2006.
After police officers told her to come back when she was “not drunk” she was driven away, raped in the car and then gang-raped by five men in a house in the town….