What is the Far Right?

Former police detective Maggie Oliver the author, begins by outlining some of her personal life which provides good contextual information to how she came to be embroiled in this appalling case of sexual abuse of vulnerable young girls by a gang of predators, in the well known Rochdale case. She then takes the reader on a journey of what was pain and misery for people who cannot stand up for themselves against those willing and able to take advantage of them. They didn't understand what was happening to them, why it was happening or how to stop it. The story simultaneously describes how Maggie and her dedicated colleagues did their duty in investigating these crimes with the aim of bringing the perpetrators to justice and preventing further victimisation. However, what the investigative team came up against was a hidden agenda operating at the higher echelons of the Greater Manchester Police service, which prevented and frustrated the advancement of justice and undoubtedly allowed many perpetrators to permanently evade justice as well as failing to prevent new victims. Part of this agenda was due to outdated police attitudes of blaming vulnerable children as being responsible for their own predicament by having made a 'lifestyle' choice. Another part of the agenda was political, due to racial tensions around that period, whilst yet another part the agenda, was the usual 'looking after their own interests' at everyone else's expense, that we see all too often during scandals at the higher levels across all institutions.