Mr Morton led Operation Bullfinch, then the biggest criminal investigation in Oxford's history, which resulted in the convictions of 21 men for offences spanning the late 1990s to the late 2000s.

In response to the BBC, the force said the information from Operation Bullfinch, launched in 2011, led to "24 convictions with sentences totalling over 250 years' imprisonment". It added that ...

"I hope I am right in thinking that this wouldn’t happen today." Operation Bullfinch, a joint investigation launched in May 2011 by Thames Valley Police and Oxfordshire County Council resulted ...

The subject of the conference was Operation Bullfinch, an investigation into an Oxford-based grooming gang. At the conference, Mr Barber said: "In the years that led up to Operation Bullfinch, Thames ...