Andrew Norfolk obituary

Journalist whose dogged reporting of grooming gangs in the north of England led to a public inquiry and changes in the lawThe award-winning reporter Andrew Norfolk had only just retired from the Times when he agreed to appear on one of its podcasts, The Story, to talk about Elon Musk, the businessman and adviser to the US president, at the start of this year. “This wasn’t how I intended to spend my 60th birthday,” he said.Not only did Norfolk, who has died suddenly, refuse to p