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Andrew Norfolk, chief investigator of the Times, was mentioned as a brave journalist who revealed uncomfortable facts and achieved a measure of justice for some members of the most negligent and insulting society.
After his death this week, 60 The Times said in the pillar of its leader: “The press, as the proverb says, is present to calm people with the plane. He retired from the Times in November last year after being exposed to health.
Prime Minister Kiir Starmer Norfolk attributed the assistance in changing the instructions related to the trials of the members of the gang of gang to “increase the convictions of the evil perpetrators.”
Norfolk also led to a national action plan for sexual exploitation and to the authorities finally that addresses the widespread issue of men’s gangs with Pakistani heritage who prepare for young white girls.
He initially met his investigation as a “silence wall” from the police forces who ignored complaints about the victims and their families.
After publishing the preliminary investigation in 2011, the Times Editor James Harding Norfolk told the story that the story would be full -time, “until we feel satisfied because every public body in England has knowledge and regulations in force to protect children and try the perpetrators.”
“Andrew’s great qualities as a journalist were sympathetic, humble, perseverance and courage. I felt the people he wrote about and listened carefully,” Harding told Press Gazette this week.
“I remember that he spent weeks in court in one case, which none of them was reported. He did not continue.
“The exposure to many horrific cases of manipulation, rape and assault was stressful. Through all of this, the denial of selfishness and spoke quietly – with the exception of the page, made it impossible to neglect the voices that did not reach the years.”
He revealed a “horrific, unparalleled and unreasonable scandal” almost “
In 2014, Norfolk was appointed as a journalist for this year at the British Press Awards for the Official Gazette of Work “with a program of great example of what can be achieved by an ordinary correspondent.”
The referees said: “It was a local story that revealed a horrific, unparalleled and unreasonable scandal. Norfolk and the Times refused to surrender until the gangs of gangs were subjected to children and the problem was addressed at the national level.
“The investigation that started with the story of the first page in January 2011 was its peak in the Jay report published in August this year, which revealed the council and law enforcement failures that contributed to the exposure of 1,400 children in Rouham alone.
“It was the press that made a difference, which gave a voice to people who no one listened to and who have proven that sometimes journalists can intervene when the police and the local and central government fail.”
Invisible violations thank Norfolk for giving them a voice
Norfolk described the victim of the surviving gang and survivors On X as “A man helped change history.”
“Andrew was not just a journalist,” she said.
“We stood side by side through many investigations, and we are facing a challenge to the most vulnerable systems. Not only did Andrew, it gave the survivors a voice and forced the institutions to face the truth.
“Rest in Andrew. Your legacy lives: in every protected child, heard every victim, and every injustice emerges.”
Adele Gladman in the former Ministry of Interior was another source that helped Norfolk expose the grooming scandal.
She said on LinkedIn: “It was one of the few people who documented my story, and he had a fundamental role in obtaining the Committee for the Chosen Home Affairs, which then led to independent reports from Alexis Jay and Baroness Louise Casey …
“On my part, he was a real man who honestly interested in people behind the stories he worked on. The cost for him to expose the horror of sexual exploitation of children throughout the country (as well as professional neglect in allowing continuing to continue).”
To do his job
The Daily Digital Editor in London shared a line in the first row with Norfolk in 2019 and helped him in his investigations into the northern cities. He told Press Gazette: “Andrew was accurate. Every statement should have been accurate, accurate and complete – he left no room for defense lawyer to clarify the truth. A statement after the statement. The victim after the victim.
“I saw him argue, sometimes they swear at times, on police officers when they failed to protect decisive evidence. South Yorkshire police, known for their weakness in saving records, often carrying his frustration. Bish.
“As an Indian journalist, seeing your secondary line on the first page of the Times is dreams of dreams. Few, such as Karan Thabar, had this honor ever. I usually preferred to use the pen’s name for my investigation. But Andrew broke that rule.
“I saw how accusations and violations have affected. He showed me threatened messages, and even a PDF file from a publication accusing him of racism. He deeply harmed him. But he remained committed, determined to make societies safer. Its resources were, and after they were resources, they were interested.”
Norfolk sparked the reputation of the press in the United Kingdom when it was in a low decline
The former Sunday Mirror correspondent Matthew Drake, who is now a great producer in good Morning Britain, recalled letters of Norfolk in the Awards of the Press Editors and British Press Awards in 2014 at a time when the reputation of the press in the United Kingdom was low in the penetration scandal. About 67 journalists and/or were accused of 2011 were arrested with several trials in 2014 on payments for public officials.
He said: “On every occasion, he delivered the most eloquent, narrated acceptance speech and self -seizure. It was on behalf of those who gained their confidence in the darkness of their ordeal. It was for the victims who found the courage to speak and withdraw the full scandal to the light.
“In both cases – although Galon of drinks were taken by the guests who were indifferent to the audience – you could have heard the sneezing mouse while telling those tormented moments when the stories and legal messages that were flying were rejected.
Speaking to Press Gazette at a time when Norfolk said: “This is a time when the press was almost not in the dock, literally in some cases, he explains that the public interest press takes place for the public good – because the public has a right and needs to know the things the authorities choose to maintain the secret – it has a more important role today than ever.”
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