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Tom Crowther was named in January as someone who would help the Government with their work to tackle child sex abuse and grooming gangs.

The actor and comedian was caught travelling at 97mph on the M6 near Telford, Staffordshire, in July last year.

Across the 2000s, a series of child sex exploitation cases affected British towns, including Telford, Rochdale, Oxford and Rotherham, scarring the lives of hundreds of children. In 2011, Times journalist Andrew Norfolk reported that networks – so-called “grooming gangs” – of largely British Asian men of Pakistani heritage had trafficked…

Tom Crowther KC says public inquiries seen as ‘Rolls-Royce solution’ but local review in Shropshire led to real progress