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Telegraph
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Press watchdog ‘must apologise' for ruling against Asian grooming claims
Suella Braverman has demanded an apology from the press regulator over a 'demonstrably incorrect' criticism of comments she made about Pakistani grooming gangs when she was home secretary. The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) ordered a newspaper to publish a correction after she wrote an opinion piece in 2023, over what it termed 'misleading' claims that child grooming gangs were 'almost all' British-Pakistani men. Now, after this month's Casey report into grooming gangs found 'disproportionate numbers' of men from Asian and Pakistani backgrounds among the perpetrators, Mrs Braverman has written to Ipso to ask for a retraction. She has also asked the organisation to apologise to the victims of grooming gangs, 'whose voices were further marginalised as a result of institutional error'. Mrs Braverman wrote an opinion piece for the Mail on Sunday in April 2023 in which she referred to the 'systematic rape, abuse and exploitation of young girls by organised gangs of older men'. In the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal, she said the criminals responsible for the 'grooming gangs phenomenon' were 'groups of men, almost all British-Pakistani, who hold cultural attitudes completely incompatible with British values'. She added: 'They have been left mostly unchallenged, both within their communities and by wider society, despite their activities being an open secret.' Ipso received a complaint from the Centre for Media Monitoring, part of the Muslim Council of Britain, and the independent regulator ruled that it had been 'misleading' to make a 'direct link between the identified ethnic group and a particular form of offending' where this did not specifically refer to abuse cases in Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford. In her report published this month, Dame Louise Casey found that police and council leaders covered up the scale of Asian grooming gangs since concerns were first raised in 2009 because they feared being called racist. Ahead of the release of the report, Sir Keir Starmer was forced to announce a national inquiry into the scandal in an embarrassing policy reversal. He has also ordered the National Crime Agency to carry out a nationwide investigation. Mrs Braverman said in her letter to Ipso that the Casey review had shown its previous ruling against her to be 'demonstrably incorrect'. She told Ipso chairman Lord Faulks: 'The truth cannot be racist. Where cultural attitudes have enabled criminality, we must be willing to name them. Where disproportionate patterns exist, we must have the courage to examine them. Anything less is a betrayal of the very standards Ipso is meant to uphold.' Ipso has faced a series of controversies in recent months. In April senior MPs expressed concern that free speech was being undermined by the regulator, after it issued a reprimand over a report that quoted remarks made in Parliament. In the same month Ipso was criticised for ruling that Palestinian prisoners in Israel could be called 'hostages', even though the BBC, which is covered by a different regulator, was forced to make a correction when it used the same phrase.
Telegraph
18-06-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
These are not ‘Asian' grooming gangs, they are Kashmiri Muslim
When Baroness Casey appeared yesterday before a select committee to answer questions about her landmark report into group-based child sexual exploitation, there was something she was particularly keen to impress upon the MPs: when it comes to dealing with the nationwide scourge of grooming gangs, questions of ethnicity have been avoided for too long. Her 200-page audit on the nature and scale of group-based child sexual abuse in England found that authorities, from the police to local councils, systematically shied away from pursuing child sex grooming gangs for fear of inflaming community tensions or being perceived as racist. Casey's passion for the subject is evident. The report's key finding, which many have known for some time, is that men of Pakistani origin are over-represented in grooming gangs which have targeted young white-British girls in towns and cities from Manchester to Rotherham. As someone who believes in strong law and order, I have found the level of institutional paralysis over tackling the grooming gangs – for fears of being accused of racism and Islamophobia – to be a grand national failure. In a particularly eye-popping passage in Casey's report, she reveals how the word 'Pakistani' was Tippexed out of one child victim's file. While there is no doubt that a diversity of ethnicities and faiths are involved in these gangs, the use of the term 'Asian' in connection to them has long masked the ever-mounting evidence that it is men of Pakistani Muslim origin specifically who are vastly overrepresented among perpetrators of these heinous sex crimes. A 2020 academic study by professors Kish Bhatti-Sinclair and Charles Sutcliffe, based on data consisting of 498 defendants across 73 prosecutions between 1997 and 2017, found that Muslims – particularly Pakistanis – dominated prosecutions for group-localised child sexual exploitation (GLCSE). Indeed, it concluded that Pakistani and Muslim proportions of the local population are 'powerful variables' in explaining the level of GLCSE prosecutions in an area. Meanwhile, the proportion of Bangladeshis and Indians in a local area had no effect. In fact, the proportion of Hindus in a local area had a negative impact on the levels of GLCSE prosecutions. Using the term 'Asian' is incredibly unhelpful in this context. Gujarati Hindus, Goan Catholics, and Punjabi Sikhs should not be conflated with the men perpetrating these crimes. It is time for us to shine a light on the poorly integrated Muslim communities originating from Mirpur in Azad Kashmir, which have formed patriarchal clans along kinship lines – known as 'biraderi'. These Mirpuri grooming gangs have shown an ugly side of family solidarity, multi-generational cohesion and tight-knit community networks: this is the dark underbelly of modern multicultural Britain. I suspect much of Britain's law-abiding population simply cannot wrap their heads around the numbers involved in the grooming-gangs scandal – which perhaps explains some of the denial. After all, some accounts of this sexual violence and brutality would not be out of place in history books on the campaign of systematic rape and torture against Bangladeshi women and girls by the Pakistani forces forces during the 1971 Liberation War. But, as it has taken root in dozens of cities and towns across England, it is something we must face up to as a society. The national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs announced by Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, must examine how cultural codes – such as so-called 'community protection' – have enabled group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse. There is no space for political correctness or mollycoddling particular minorities. If we are serious about delivering justice for the victims, no stone should be left unturned.
The Sun
16-06-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
Grooming gangs scandal is one of the biggest cover ups in the history of the British state
Kids sacrificed for race relations THE grooming gangs scandal is not just one of the worst of modern times. It could be considered one of the biggest cover ups in the history of the British State. 1 For years, the Left downplayed the fact that Pakistani men were over- represented in the number of convictions for raping and beating young white girls. Vulnerable victims had repeatedly told police, social services and teachers that while being subjected to the worst torture imaginable they were also called 'white whores.' Shamefully, the authorities did nothing about this depravity — preferring to sacrifice poor white teenagers on the altar of race relations. Back in 2014, a report revealed 1,400 children were attacked in Rotherham - almost all victims white, almost all abusers of Pakistani origin. An inquiry in Telford in 2022 found that 'there was a nervousness about race… bordering on a reluctance to investigate crimes committed by what was described as the 'Asian' community.' Yet such is the liberal elite's lingering wilful blindness that even yesterday the Bishop of Manchester was on the BBC claiming there was 'no pattern' of ethnic involvement. Yesterday's damning findings by Louise Casey — that the link between ethnicity and sex crimes was dodged for year s, that asylum seekers were involved in abuse and that public trust has been eroded as a result — blows such claims out of the water for good. Much of the worst exploitation happened in areas with a high Muslim population which tended to vote Labour. Perhaps that explains Sir Keir Starmer's initial decision to deny a public inquiry, while accusing critics of 'jumping on the bandwagon of the far right'? Better late than never, he has now been forced to do the moral thing. Ethnicity of child sex abuse suspects will be logged after truth about Asian grooming gangs was 'dodged for YEARS' Home Secretary Yvette Cooper's move to ban offenders from claiming asylum is long overdue. Baroness Casey's recommendations also make sense. They include mandatory collection of ethnicity and nationality data, sharing of information and a crackdown on rogue taxi licensing. Best of all is her suggestion of the time-limited national inquiry. After 20 years of institutional cover-up, hundreds of local authority figures who escaped any punishment will be forced to publicly explain what they did and WHY. The process must be swift this time. But first, Britain's Establishment needs to accept how it got things so terribly wrong. It can start with an apology to everybody it smeared as racist simply for trying to get justice for victims of heinous abuse. Grooming gang crackdown unveiled BARONESS Casey's report sets out a series of recommendations, which the government has accepted in full 1. Strengthen the law: Tighten the law so that any adult who has sex with a child under the age of 16 is automatically charged with rape, removing current legal grey areas that allow abusers to avoid proper punishment. 2. Address Historical Failings: Through a national inquiry pursue justice for past cases and hold accountable those who failed to act. 3. Enhance Intelligence Gathering: Improve the collection and analysis of information to combat exploitation more effectively. 4. Improve Inter-Agency Collaboration: Foster stronger cooperation and information-sharing among agencies. 5. Mandatory Reporting: Require all services to share information when a child is at risk. 6. Introduce Unique Child Identifiers: Implement a system to ensure children are consistently and accurately identified across services. 7. Modernise Police Systems: Upgrade technology to enable seamless communication and prevent missed opportunities. 8. Treat Grooming Gangs as Serious Organised Crime: Employ the same robust strategies used to combat other forms of organised criminal activity. 9. Investigate Declining Reports: The Department for Education must examine why reports of child abuse are decreasing and take corrective action. 10. Understand the Underlying Drivers: Conduct in-depth research into the factors underpinning grooming gangs, including cultural and online influences. 11. Regulate the Taxi Industry: Prevent exploitation by restricting the use of 'out-of-area' taxi drivers. 12. Commit Government Resources: Ministers must allocate funding and ensure measurable progress is achieved.
