Centre for Justice Policy

🧵 Today the Centre for Justice Policy is publishing 10 new grooming gang sentencing remarks from Rochdale, Huddersfield, Rotherham, High Wycombe, Nottingham and Chelmsford.

Some had no reporters in the room, and coverage of the rest missed much of what the judges said.

Today, as part of the open justice project, and at the request of the victim, we are publishing the full trial of Khaliz Ali Alshimery. An Illegal migrant found guilty of raping an autistic student in Oxford while living in taxpayer funded accommodation

Today as part of the Open Justice project we are releasing the transcript of the trial of the murder of Henry Nowak. Made specifically by the court this time. It can be found alongside our previously released grooming transcripts at:

transcripts.openjusticeuk.org

We started out publishing court records the public isn't normally allowed to see. We were the first organisation to privately obtain and publish court transcripts en masse, and the first to publish a full trial transcript in UK legal history.

The more of those records we read, the clearer it became that the failures in them weren't isolated. The same problems came up in case after case: demographic change, frontline services stretched past the point of function, institutions that cannot or will not act. Publishing more of it wasn't going to change any of that on its own, because the real question was why it kept happening in the first place.

That's the work we're moving into now. We're looking at why the justice system fails the people it's supposed to protect, what countries with better systems do differently, and how the same failures repeated themselves across so many towns. The transcript work carries on alongside all of this, because it's still where a lot of the evidence starts.
The name has changed and the remit is wider, but the reason we started this hasn't. We feel genuinely privileged to be able to do this work, and we're looking forward to what comes next.

Today we are releasing 7 more sentencing remarks:
-Rochdale 2023
-Rochdale 2015
-Shrewsbury 2024
-Carlisle 2012
-Sheffield 2020
-Liverpool 2017
-Oxford 2015

transcripts.openjusticeuk.org