Charlie Peters addresses London Assembly on the capital’s grooming gang crisis

Charlie Peters has addressed the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee over the capital’s grooming gang crisis.

The GB News National Reporter was joined by three other journalists to give evidence.

“We have seen decades of oversight and misunderstanding and failure to prosecute that form of criminality for a myriad of socio-political reasons and nervousness about it,” Charlie began.

“I can always feel an atmosphere of hesitation, reticence and a sort of chilled atmosphere of concern whenever I talk about it, perhaps even in this room.”

He suggested this nervousness concerned the “cultural, perhaps religious, or ethnic driver behind that form of offending that we just don't understand”.

“There is so much evidence about it happening, and it has been ignored.

“London needs to get to grips with it as well, and I think it will require an additional level of focus because of the obfuscation and shying away from it that we've seen already from many public-facing institutions in London and around the country.”

“We now finally have a public inquiry into this issue. But it's taken decades to get there, and there's been a huge political battle to ensure it asks those questions,” Charlie added.

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