The period from 2004 to 2013. Greater Manchester Police has apologised and said such cases are now handled very differently. The mayor of Greater Manchester, andy burnham, who commissioned the review, spoke earlier at a news conference. The report being published today finds unequivocally that failures that could and should have been avoided were in fact repeated. In the words of the report, it represents a, Lamentable Strategic Failure by leaders in the Greater Manchester system at the time. 0ver many years, Greater Manchester police failed to give the investigation of these serious crimes the priority and resources necessary. The report is hard to read. It gives a detailed and distressing account of how so many young women were seriously harmed