Survivors and a former senior detective have alleged that numerous men involved in Oxford grooming gangs remain free and are still encountered by victims in public. Their accounts, featured in a BBC Panorama documentary, describe children being groomed, drugged, trafficked and raped, while raising questions about Thames Valley Police’s handling of earlier investigations.

One survivor said she was given heroin-laced cigarettes and alcohol before being told she owed the perpetrators sex; another described being trafficked from the age of 12. The first Oxford trial in 2013 convicted seven men, while later prosecutions found more victims; an estimate in 2015 suggested more than 370 children had been affected, though the article does not establish how many alleged attackers remain at large.