Melisa Tourt

Melisa Tourt is the co-founder of Open Justice UK, a campaigning and research non-profit organisation that works to improve transparency and accountability around grooming gangs and the UK justice system more widely.

Farage’s parliamentary grooming gang inquiry won’t work

Nigel Farage’s call this week for parliament to seize control of the grooming-gangs inquiry sounds superficially compelling. The government’s statutory inquiry has stumbled – survivors have resigned, the chair has stepped down, and momentum appears lost. Why not, Farage argues, bypass this chaos with a parliamentary investigation that can summon witnesses, operate transparently, and confront