louise haigh explained that sammy woodhouse had two convictions. includes possession of an offensive weapon and affray, both explicitly linked to her grooming. when she was 15, police raided a property of a now—convicted serial rapist. sammy was half naked and hiding under his bed. he was not detained, but sammy was arrested and charged. she was a victim of exploitation and is now forced to disclose her criminal convictions — crimes she committed only through her exploitation. louise haigh said judges had already ruled that forcing exploitation victims to review convictions connected to their mps was unjust. —— victims to reveal convictions connected to their mps was unjust. will the minister consider bringing forward what is known sammy's law — the rights of victims of cse to have their criminal records automatically reviewed and crimes associated with their grooming removed? at present, anyone has a right to apply to the chief constable of their force area to have their records reviewed, but this right is little—known and surely, there must be a

we can cross now to westminster and to the shadow policing minister and labour mp louise haigh.ing lots of warm words and who could disagree with her that we should tackle not only the criminal aspect of knife crime but also the causes of knife crime but what she is in complete denial about is the fa ct is in complete denial about is the fact that losing over 21,000 police officers off our streets, losing over £1 billion from children services, the decimation of services has blea kly reduced services, the decimation of services has bleakly reduced the resilience of verities and society as a whole to prevent crime from happening in the first place —— completely. the fa ct of the first place —— completely. the fact of the matter is that we have reduced our police to an emergency that can only turn abaft the very worst has happened and they have been completely prevented from putting that proactive community led preventative policing in place to make sure that crime does not happen in the first place and all of that has contributed together to the massive contagion of youth violenc