So Nazir Afzal who was chief prosecutor was lying then?
He is now saying this,,
"Let me clarify an issue:
I was told by some officers that Home Office Circular 17/2008 had led to others interpreting it as permitting them to allow a child, past the age of puberty, to continue engaging in sexual activity where the officer perceived them to understand dangers"
He is making it worst. Are the Home Office so bad at writing circulars, that some police interpreted it, as permitting them to allow a child at the age of puberty to continue in sexual activity. I mean that could be 11 years old. The police can't make up laws by interpretation.
He is backtracking and making the situation worse.
It still doesn't clear up, why the police weren't arresting grooming gangs, when the young girls, or their parents reported rape.
Starmer tightened things up and as far as I can see, he did a good job when he was crown prosecutor.
I really think that a national investigation in to if the police were told not to arrest 50 year old men who were having sex with girls as young as 12. Of the police misinterpreted the circular, or if there was never a circular. One thing is for sure, the children weren't protected by, who they were meant to be protected by.