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Inside Out North East and Cumbria: Operation Sanctuary

Operation Sanctuary

09/08/2017

BBC One - Inside Out North East and Cumbria, Operation Sanctuary

A special report on how police paid a child rapist to inform on a Newcastle grooming gang.

Chris Jackson reports on Operation Sanctuary, the Northumbria Police enquiry into an Asian grooming gang operating in the West End of Newcastle.

In this Inside Out special investigation, Chris Jackson reports on Operation Sanctuary, the Northumbria Police enquiry into an Asian grooming gang operating in the West End of Newcastle. He reveals how, as part of the operation, police paid a convicted child rapist more than £10,000 to infiltrate the gang that was preying on vulnerable young girls.

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