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== Overview of Crimes ==

Rape gangs have exploited children systematically across every region of the
United Kingdom for decades.

The independent chair of the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and
Protection Alexis Jay has identified the 1970s as the decade when immigrant
rape gangs first began tormenting the girls of Britain.<ref>See Alexis Jay OBE, The Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, October 2022.</ref> However, the British
Newspaper Archive reveals that the first recorded case of specifically Pakistani
rape gangs dates back to 1955, when four Bradford-based Pakistanis were
charged with raping a 1<ref>See Bradford Observer, Saturday 27 August, 1955, the British Newspaper Archive.</ref>-year-old girl from Middlesbrough. This was soon after
former colonial subjects, from the subcontinent as much as the Caribbean,
became eligible to enter the United Kingdom in non-trivial numbers under the
British Nationality Act 1948.<ref>See the British Nationality Act (1948).</ref> What began as singular and small-scale instances
became systematic and industrial over time.

These horrific crimes have only escalated in recent decades, especially following
Tony Blair’s 1997 victory and the start of orchestrated mass immigration. With
greater numbers came greater opportunities for abuse. Perpetrators built
organised networks that transported victims between towns and cities and
passed girls between multiple adult men.

In each of these areas the same tactics were used. Girls as young as 11 were
targeted with gifts, alcohol and drugs, collected in taxis from school gates, care
homes and streets and taken to houses, flats, restaurants and hotels and then
raped repeatedly by groups of men, passed between perpetrators, trafficked
across county lines, and in many cases impregnated or forced into abortions.
Most victims endured violence, were filmed for blackmail, or told they were
“white trash” or “kuffar” who deserved punishment.

The authorities at every level – including the police, social services, health
services, schools, licensing bodies, and politicians – knew the patterns, possessed
the intelligence, and still failed to protect the country’s children. The evidence
establishes that a national scandal of repeated rape, trafficking, torture,
pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma enabled by
institutional denial, political calculation, and fear of the accusation of racism
took place over decades.

The incidents of criminal activities listed in this report are drawn from court
records, official and unofficial inquiries across the country, and witness
testimony provided to the Inquiry. They confirm that this was never a series of
isolated local failures. It was a coordinated, nationwide pattern of organised
child sexual exploitation that repeated in town after town, city after city, from
the far north to the south coast. The same ethnic and religious profile of the
perpetrators was documented throughout almost all of the witnesses who
contacted the Inquiry.

The scale of the rape gang phenomenon is endemic across the entirety of Britain.
The 250,000 figure originates directly from a statement in the House of Lords by
Lord Pearson of Rannoch on 1 May, 2019:

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“Do the Government accept that if we extrapolate nationally the Jay report on
Rotherham and other reports from Telford and Oxford, there appear to have been
upwards of 250,000 young white girls raped in this century, very largely by Muslim men,
usually several times a day for years?”
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He added that this number “is probably an underestimate.”7

This extrapolation now has greater support due to further data that has been
collected, derived from scaling the patterns documented in major inquiries:

● Rotherham (Jay Report, 2014): At least 1,400 girls abused between 1997
and 2013, with some updated estimates exceeding this. Perpetrators were
overwhelmingly Pakistani Muslim men.

● Telford Inquiry (2022): More than 1,000 children (predominantly girls)
over decades, again with the same perpetrator profile.

● National footprint: The grooming gang model has been confirmed in
dozens of towns and cities. Our independent Inquiry, led by Rupert Lowe
MP, has heard evidence demonstrating coordinated operations extending
to all corners of the country, in at least 149 local authority districts (see
page 1 for the full map).

When the Rotherham/Telford scale is applied across the documented national
distribution, and multiplied by the extreme under-reporting factor accepted by
official reviews, the total reaches the 250,000 threshold as a bare minimum.

We are far from grasping the full extent of grooming gang criminality in modern
Britain. It is reasonable to assume that, since sexual abuse of all kinds tends to
be under-reported, this is also true of grooming gangs. The Independent has
reported that almost 1<ref>See Appendix IV for our name-by-name list of affected areas.</ref>,000 children were identified as sexual exploitation
victims in England in one year alone, despite the reluctance of state actors to
name or tackle the problem of the rape gangs.<ref>Lizzie Dearden, Grooming ‘epidemic’ as almost 19,000 children identified as sexual exploitation victims in England, The Independent, 28 December, 2019.</ref> After decades of abuse, victims
must number in the hundreds of thousands. The full scale is not yet known.

Every major review has emphasised that recorded statistics severely understate
reality:

● Baroness Casey National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual
Exploitation and Abuse (June 2025): The audit explicitly states that the
scale, nature, and characteristics of group-based child sexual exploitation
remain impossible to quantify precisely due to inconsistent data
collection and historical suppression.
● Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) and multiple
local inquiries (2022–2025): “It is simply not possible to know the scale”
because ethnicity, group offending, and historical cases were routinely
unrecorded or shelved to protect “community cohesion.”

Overleaf is a heat map that portrays the various locations in which the Inquiry
can be sure the rape gangs operated. It is likely that the true extent is far worse.

The scale, the tactics, the perpetrator profile, and the systemic inaction were
almost always identical everywhere. Britain did not face dozens of separate local
scandals. It faced one national scandal that the state allowed to grow for
decades.

=== London ===
London stands exposed as the epicentre of institutional denial in the grooming
gang scandal. While northern towns faced public inquiries after the truth
emerged, the capital maintained a wall of silence for years. The Mayor of
London, Sadiq Khan, has repeatedly insisted there were no grooming gangs
operating in the city. As our inquiry heard from Susan Hall, Leader of the
Conservatives in the London Assembly, the rape gang phenomenon is in fact
endemic within the capital. After challenging Khan about the presence of such
gangs in London, Hall was inundated with calls from women and girls
purporting to be victims of their predation. Khan describes evidence from
whistleblowers as malicious and politically motivated. He told the London
Assembly that the problem was far more complex than in other parts of the
country and that young people were being exploited through county lines rather
than organised group-based child sexual exploitation.<ref>See Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says grooming gang cases in London are ‘far more complex’, ITV News, 28 October, 2025.</ref>

These statements were made despite the Metropolitan Police holding reports of
young girls being plied with alcohol and drugs then raped by groups of men in
hotels and other locations across the capital. A Daily Express investigation
revealed that Khan had direct access to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary
documents detailing exactly these patterns of offending. He read the files yet
continued to deny the existence of grooming gangs in public.<ref>Zak Garner-Purkis & Callum Cuddeford, Sadiq Khan grooming gang ‘cover-up’ exposed as new evidence revealed, Daily Express, 19 October, 2025.</ref>

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp MP has accused Khan of facilitating a
cover-up and other politicians stated that both the Mayor and the Metropolitan
Police had been denying grooming gangs in London. Campaigners, including
whistleblower Maggie Oliver and Chris Wild, described the capital as the last
bastion of denial and warned that the scale of abuse there was more catastrophic

than anywhere else in the country.

The evidence now emerging confirms their warnings. In October 2025, the
Metropolitan Police announced a review of 9,000 child sexual exploitation cases.
The National Crime Agency launched Operation Beaconport to examine
thousands more files nationwide after initial assessments found human errors,
missed lines of inquiry, and cases wrongly dropped. London forms a significant
part of this backlog. A former Metropolitan Police detective has described
industrial-scale child prostitution and grooming in the capital, with authorities
aware but opting for inaction due to a mixture of “incompetence, laziness, and
corruption.”12

London has the largest Muslim population in Britain. Khan relies on significant
electoral support from those communities, as well as having an ethno-religious
motive to protect the public reputation of Pakistani Muslims in particular.
Widespread acknowledgment of organised networks of predominantly Pakistani
Muslim men targeting vulnerable white girls would have shattered the narrative
of community cohesion that successive London administrations – none more
than Khan’s – have promoted. As for others in authority, fear of being labelled
‘racist’ paralysed the Metropolitan Police and City Hall in the same way it did in
Rotherham and Rochdale before them. One anonymous whistleblower told us
that boys as well as girls are an especially vulnerable target for criminal gangs –
typically Albanian, Somali, or Turkish – operating in the capital. Yet the
relevant bodies still refuse to collect data on ethnicity, wilfully rendering
themselves blind to the very behavioural patterns that are supposed to aid law
enforcement in its pursuit of justice.

The Metropolitan Police review, the National Crime Agency operation, and the
witness accounts pouring in prove that group-based child sexual exploitation
has thrived in our capital city.

This Inquiry records the failure without reservation. Khan and the senior
leadership of the Metropolitan Police must answer for their role in this scandal.
Until the capital confronts the truth with the same rigour now demanded

elsewhere, the children of London remain at risk and the state remains
complicit.

<ref>Lord Pearson of Rannoch (House of Lords, Hansard Vol. 797) in a debate on Grooming Gangs, 14 May, 2019.</ref> <ref>See Sadiq Khan’s Grooming Gang cover up EXPOSED | Daily Express</ref>

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