How to stop agitators such as Tommy Robinson exploiting child grooming trials

Together, our courts and our press should make sure that justice is not only done, but seen to be done.

Tommy Robinson’s supporters outside the Old Bailey on 23 October(Photo By : Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

The first time Amere Singh Dhaliwal raped “Girl A”, she was 13 or 14 years old. Along with two other British Asian men, he approached her and her friends at a bus station in Huddersfield and offered them alcohol.

Girl A cannot remember which of the men she lost her virginity to, weeks later, but she does remember that when Dhaliwal raped her, he told his girlfriend and others that she had been the sexual aggressor. His girlfriend and her friends then beat up Girl A, breaking her nose. He passed her round his friends, who would take girls up to the moors and threaten to leave them there.

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