Nazir Afzal

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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One of Nazir Afzal's first jobs as chief crown prosecutor was on the Rochdale sex trafficking gang, overturning all previous decisions and initiating prosecutions. He brought the case to the public eye, and expose a deep-rooted evil operating previously without conviction. Afzal has spearheaded many inequality campaigns, fighting what he calls 'white male power' presiding over minority communities. Making his name as being one of the first to prosecute an honour killing, he is the true face of British justice.

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0:35.9	Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Full Disclosure with me, James O'Brien, a project
0:41.4	conceived largely so that I can spend a little bit more time than is normal in a broadcast context
0:47.1	with people who I am intrigued by or admiring of, or in this case both Nazir Afzal,
0:53.7	OBE, welcome. Thank you. People Nazir Afzal, OBE. Welcome.
0:55.1	Thank you.
0:55.8	People who are not immediately familiar with your name.
0:59.3	You achieved prominence, I suppose, as the chief Crown prosecutor in the northwest,
1:05.4	covering Greater Manchester, Cumbria and Lancashire as a direct result of the so-called grooming gang scandal.
1:13.2	We will head towards that in the course of the interview.
1:16.6	But let's begin at the beginning.
1:18.8	Your parents came here from Pakistan shortly before you were born.
1:23.1	Yeah, they came from the very traditional and very tribalistic parts of northern Pakistan.
1:27.9	They moved to the very traditional and tribalistic parts of Birmingham where I was born.
1:31.8	Which bit?
1:32.6	Small heath.
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