Andrew Norfolk, the Times reporter who exposed the grooming scandal, has been remembered as one of the great journalists of his generation after his death aged 60.
Sir Keir Starmer led tributes to Norfolk as a brave and tenacious journalist who uncovered the widespread abuse of girls by predominantly Pakistani men and the failure of the authorities to stop it.
Norfolk, who received journalism’s most prestigious awards for his reporting of the scandal in Rotherham and Rochdale, retired in November after a 24-year career at The Times. He had suffered ill health and died on May 8 after collapsing while attending a routine medical appointment.
• Andrew Norfolk obituary: Times reporter who exposed grooming gangs
Starmer was director of public prosecutions when Norfolk revealed the
