Just a few hundred yards from Oxford’s Magdalen College — host to punting tourists and the college’s own deer park — lay the nerve centre of one of the most prolific and violent organised child-grooming gangs in Britain.
In the 2010s the Cowley Road, which stretches from Magdalen Bridge over the Cherwell river and into east Oxford, was revealed as the city’s dark underbelly.
A series of trials revealed how at least two dozen men, largely of British-Pakistani heritage, groomed hundreds of victims.
