A 16-year-old girl. Significant facial injuries. Inside a house in East Bowling, Bradford.
Arrested: a 20-year-old man, a 23-year-old man, a 54-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman.
Wounding with intent.
All four released on bail.
Read that again. Two people old enough to be her grandparents, two men in their twenties, a child with her face smashed in, and the system’s answer is bail. Not one of them held. Not a name. Not a motive. Just “enquiries continue.”
This country will write a paragraph about a girl’s destroyed face and put the suspects back in the same streets before the bruising has even come up. That’s not policing. That’s paperwork.