These are the three heroes that played a crucial role in bringing down the Rochdale grooming gangs who targeted, abused and raped dozens of young girls.
Nazir Afzal, Maggie Oliver and Sara Rowbotham battled police and council bosses in order to seek justice after gangs of mainly Asian men destroyed the lives of a number of children in the Greater Manchester town between 2004 and 2012.
A new report published yesterday revealed the plight faced by the girls who were the subject of this abuse and the struggle they faced to be believed, as well as the harassment when they gave evidence against their abusers.
