In Plain Sight by Marlon West

In Plain Sight by Marlon West

"I was doing everything I could to try and keep my daughter at home because she had pretty much obliterated her bedroom. She was lashing out against everything and everyone because she had been utterly traumatised."

Marlon West works as a professional mental health practitioner who has tirelessly counselled survivors of UK grooming gangs through their trauma. So, when his 13-year-old daughter was targeted and groomed, he immediately spotted the red flags.

Despite this, the grooming - initiated by an older white woman - became so relentless that he was helpless to try and stop it.

Over the two years that followed, the single father reported his daughter missing from home an astonishing 56 times. He even took the heartbreaking decision to place her in care to try and keep her safe, but he says police failed to help him or stop the grooming, and in some instances, they actually left her in the care of her groomers rather than return her home.

Instead, Marlon claims that he and his daughter were 'criminalised' and, at one meeting, he was told to shut up and stop reporting his (then) 14-year-old missing.

Scarlett, who was groomed in Rochdale, only escaped her abusers two years ago, and her father believes that girls are still being targeted to this day. Today, Marlon is one of the main campaigners demanding a government-led national inquiry into UK grooming gangs, which he insists are at epidemic proportions.

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ISBN 13	9781917439930
ISBN 10	1917439938
Title	In Plain Sight
Author	Marlon West
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Mirror Books
Year published	2026-07-16
Number of pages	288
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