'It's a token sentence!' Maggie Oliver casts doubt on grooming gang facing justice after 277-year sentence

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It's a token sentence!' Maggie Oliver casts doubt on grooming gang facing justice after 277-year sentence.

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Maggie Oliver has expressed her doubt at a major Yorkshire grooming gang facing real justice after receiving a combined 277-year sentence.Speaking to GB News, the grooming gangs whistleblower declared the jail term a "token sentence", admitting she has "mixed feelings" about it.Following a major police investigation and six separate trials at Leeds Crown Court, a West Yorkshire grooming gang was sentenced to a combined total of 277 years.The gang committed offences of horrific sexual abuse involving girls as young as 12 between 1995 and 2003 in Dewsbury and Batley in Kirklees.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Reacting to the sentencing of the gang, Ms Oliver broke down the 277-year sentence and revealed how long each offender in the gang would actually serve.She told GB News: "I've got mixed feelings, honestly.

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The optics of it are that this is huge sentences and there are some really powerful, there are some really relevant sentences in that.

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But there are 20 offenders, 220 years,...

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