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During a gathering at Rotherham police station with senior police and council officials, they appeared incensed that Weir had written to the Chief Constable. Following this, with the consent of her supervisor, Weir wrote in October 2001 to Mike Hedges, the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police, and to Christine Burbeary, the District Commander. In line with Weir's evidence to the home Affairs Committee, documents had been deleted, and somebody had created, on the pc, the minutes of conferences that Weir had purportedly attended, which showed her agreeing to sure conditions, corresponding to not submitting knowledge to Home Office evaluators with out her line manager's consent. Weir's report for the home Office evaluators linked 54 abused youngsters to the Hussain family, as of October 2001. Eighteen youngsters had named one of those men, Arshid Hussain (then round 25), as their "boyfriend", and several had develop into pregnant. The Jay report also famous that one of the local Pakistani women's teams had described Pakistani women being focused by Pakistani taxi drivers and landlords, but they feared reporting to the police out of concerns for their marriage prospects. Parveen Qureshi, director of the United Multicultural Centre in Rotherham claimed in 2014 'Pakistani community leaders in Rotherham have been complicit in hushing up the shocking 'ethnic' dimensions of the sexual exploitation rather than talking out'. |
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