Prosecutors are betraying grooming victims by failing to treat rape gang offences against white working-class girls as hate crimes, it has been claimed.
Fiona Goddard, who was repeatedly raped from the age of 14 during her time in children’s homes in Bradford in the 2000s, said it was “deeply frustrating” that the crimes were not deemed to have a racial element.
Ms Goddard, now 32, said her abusers “spoke about ‘white girls’ as people they could use, saying they needed to keep Pakistani girls ‘pure’”.
Victims have been referred to by Pakistani-Muslim abusers as “white b—h” and “trash”.
🇬🇧 Rupert Lowe's Rape Gang Enquiry is utterly harrowing.
The abuse of White working class girls by Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs was ignored, minimised, and buried by institutions meant to protect them.
Worse still, this abuse hasn’t ended. It is still happening across the… pic.twitter.com/zxPEnwuRhy
— Europa.com (@europa) February 8, 2026
