first encountered the grooming gangsin first encountered the grooming gangs in 2003, when labour mp ann cryer revealed local concerns about asian men targeting teenage girls outside school gates. he admitted later that a story about ethnic minorities targeting white girls felt like a far right fantasy. liberal guilt kicked in, so he wrote one story and dropped it. but over the years, he kept encountering similar stories. his conscience nagged him, and in 2010, he began to research court records. what he found was a pattern. abusers would meet girls in public places. they would give them gifts or take them out on joyrides until they felt like the man was their boyfriend. then they'd give them alcohol or drugs and rape them. often they trafficked the girls between their family and friends to be raped by them too. the girls were mostly white, the abusers mainly pakistani. when andrew norfolk approached the authorities, they all refused to speak to him. finally, he found a group who would speak to him. they were called risky business and they were based in rotherham. i went there to meet jayne se

when the keighley mp ann cryer first raised concerns about grooming gangsin raised concerns about groominggs in this area in 2002, she was called a racist. so how did sadiq khan respond when susan hall asked him about the extent of abuse gangs in london yesterday? >> so are you saying we haven't got the same sort of gangs that are in rotherham and bradford and lots of other places in the country? are you saying understanding? >> what does she mean by that? >> what does she mean by that? >> you know full well what i mean by that. it's all over the television. you know exactly what i mean by that. these gangs of people that are grooming young girls for sex, do we actually have those in london? >> well, after two weeks of relentless coverage on this national atrocity, attempts to stonewall questions like that or ignore concerns about this scandal that just won't work anymore. a lot of people have only recently learned the extent of the abuse gangs crisis. before, we were gripped by a conspiracy of murmuring people being a bit nervous talking around this topic. but now that murmuring has becom

that's why people i mean, anne cryer put it very well.aid people didn't want to be denounced as racist. no.and want to be denounced as racist. no. and the knee jerk thought was, forgive me, was was political correctness not easy politics because we are talking about things which involve race and culture, sex, sex and children. >> and it's, you know, it's horrible in a sense. all of westminster has tried sometimes looked away, frankly. >> and i think it is just like when we have seen other sex based scandals in the catholic church in, in, in other organisations that actually it does take a long time and people are very nervous about getting involved. so i think now the matter has been blown open. no, i think that actually you will see more action being taken. and i think actually we're kind of arguing over what should come first. should we have an inquiry first. should we have an inquiry first or should we implement the recommendations we know have been agreed so far and then do an inquiry later on? >> so that's the 20 j recommendations. >

when the keighley mp ann cryer first raised concerns about grooming gangsin raised concerns about groominggangs in this area in 2002, she was called a racist. so how did sadiq khan respond when susan hall asked him about the extent of abuse gangs in london yesterday? >> so are you saying we haven't got the same sort of gangs that are in rotherham and bradford and lots of other places in the country? are you saying understanding? >> what does she mean by that? >> what does she mean by that? >> you know full well what i mean by that. it's all over the television. you know exactly what i mean by that. these gangs of people that are grooming young girls for sex, do we actually have those in london? >> well, after two weeks of relentless coverage on this national atrocity, attempts to stonewall questions like that or ignore concerns about this scandal that just won't work anymore. a lot of people have only recently learned the extent of the abuse gangs crisis. before, we were gripped by a conspiracy of murmuring people being a bit nervous talking around this topic. but now that murmuring has be