Reporter who exposed the Roherham care scandal dies at the age of 60

Andrew Norfolk, the former reporter who unveiled the Rotherham care scandal, died at the age of 60.

Sir Keir Starrer said, Mr. Norfolk, who died on May 8 after illness, was “absolutely essential” to change the law so that more care gang members could be convicted.

The reporting of Mr. Norfolk in 2011 revealed a pattern of mainly white girls of teenage, which was cultivated by adult men of a Pakistanian heritage after a growing number of law enforcement in Great Britain.

It led to an examination of the sexual exploitation of children in Rotherham, which reported on the period from 1997 to 2013.

It was estimated that around 1,400 children over 16 years were sexually exploited.

The Prime Minister, who was a director of the public prosecutor, when the scandal was unveiled, said Times: “I am deeply sorry to hear from Andrew's death.

“He was not only an incredibly talented reporter, in the time and elsewhere he was driven by the desire to draw our attention to injustice and to protect the most endangered.

“I had the privilege enough to meet Andrew first -hand when I was a director of the public prosecutor after broke the news of the scandal for gang gangs.

'His passion for the support of the victims of peasant gangs shone and he was absolutely essential to ensure that we could change the rules to increase the convicts of the hideous perpetrators.

“My thoughts are with Andrew's family, relatives and friends. I hope that their memories of him and the knowledge of the difference he made the life of people are a consolation for them at that time. '

Tony Gallagher, the publisher of the Times, said that Norfolk was undoubtedly one of the greatest investigative reporters of our or all ages.

“His tireless work, which exposes the evils of the predominantly Asian nursing ribbons in and around cities in northern England, led to an overdue recognition of the crimes after the people who were able to watch the other direction for years.”

In 1965 he was born in Canterbury, Kent, the son of David Norfolk, a headmaster and methodist lay preacher, and Olive Norfolk.

He won the Paul Foot Award and the Orwell Prize for his later groundbreaking work with The Times and was also appointed journalist of the year 2014.