A total of 25 men mostly of South Asian descent have been sentenced to a collective 346 years in prison over the “abhorrent in the extreme” rape, sexual abuse, and trafficking of girls between 1999 and 2012 in the North Kirklees area of West Yorkshire.
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A leader of a Rochdale grooming gang is still living in the UK nearly nine years after he was first ordered to be deported by a judge.
Qari Abdul Rauf, a former taxi driver and preacher, was one of nine men who were convicted in 2012 of sexual offences against children, including rape and trafficking.
Yet another report has shown that grooming gangs were given a free pass because of ‘racial sensitivities’.
A new review into the authorities’ response to the grooming-gangs scandal in Rochdale, in the north-west of England, makes for depressing reading.
The report, published this week, is the third part of an independent review into the handling of child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester. Authors Malcolm Newsam and Gary Ridgway tell an all-too-familiar story of the callous indifference of local authorities, of the police’s failure to protect the most vulnerable and of a complete lack of accountability.
These are the three heroes that played a crucial role in bringing down the Rochdale grooming gangs who targeted, abused and raped dozens of young girls.
Nazir Afzal, Maggie Oliver and Sara Rowbotham battled police and council bosses in order to seek justice after gangs of mainly Asian men destroyed the lives of a number of children in the Greater Manchester town between 2004 and 2012.
A new report published yesterday revealed the plight faced by the girls who were the subject of this abuse and the struggle they faced to be believed, as well as the harassment when they gave evidence against their abusers.
Report finds Greater Manchester police and council failed vulnerable children — and 96 men still pose a risk to young girls
Girls in Rochdale were “left at the mercy” of Asian grooming gangs for years because of multiple failures by the authorities, a new report has said.
The 173-page independent report analysed child sexual exploitation in the area from 2004 to 2013, concluding there had been a “serious failure” to protect children by Greater Manchester police (GMP) and Rochdale council.
It identified at least 96 men who were still a risk to children but said it was “only a proportion” of the numbers involved in the abuse who have not been prosecuted.
Two brothers are among five men from Rochdale to have been found guilty of sexually exploiting two girls from the ages of 12 and 13.
The girls were “mere objects for the defendants to use, abuse, humiliate then discard”, Manchester Minshull Street crown court heard.
The jury had been warned not to be prejudiced against the defendants simply because of where they were from, with one defence barrister saying Rochdale had become “synonymous with grooming”.
The men had denied 80 counts dating back to 2002 and 2006, when some of them were teenagers.
The focus on this issue is right and proper
“‘Inaccurate’ grooming gang claims putting children at risk” read the Guardian headline, as it reported a new open letter. Hosted by the University of Bedfordshire and signed (so far) by 60 organisations or researchers, it warned the Prime Minister and Home Secretary against making “partial, inaccurate or divisive claims about child sexual abuse”.
What the letter is really worried about is the government’s focus on “group based child sexual exploitation in the community” — commonly known as “grooming gangs”. In the aftermath of the GB News film “Grooming Gangs: Britain’s Shame”, Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced new measures, including a new Grooming Gangs Taskforce, which was one of the policies the documentary called for.
Grooming Gangs: Britain’s Shame
Eleven men accused of historic sexual abuse against three teenage girls in Rochdale are to appear in court.
Their combined 103 charges relate to alleged offences against the three girls between 2000 and 2006.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said they were charged in connection with Operation Lytton – an ongoing investigation into historic sex offences against children.
The suspects are due before Manchester and Salford magistrates’ court on Wednesday.
Tahir Rashid, 52, of Hudsons Walk, Rochdale
Mohammad Salim, 44, of Bradley Smithy Close, Rochdale
Suklene Shah, 44, of Crawford Street, Rochdale
Mohammed Shazad, 42, of Beswicke Royds Street, Rochdale
Nisar Hussain, 39, of Newfield Close, Rochdale
Naheem Akram, 46, of Manley Road, Rochdale
Mohammed Zahid, 62, of Station Road, Crumpsall
Roheez Khan, 37, of Athole Street, Rochdale
Arfan Khan, 39, of Grouse Street, Rochdale
Mustaq Ahmed, 65, of Corona Avenue, Oldham
Kasir Bashir, 48, of Napier Street East, Oldham
Sex offenders who have been convicted in a major investigation into child abuse in Huddersfield have been jailed for a total of over 500 years.
The conclusion of the latest trial where offenders were charged under Operation Tendersea, conducted by West Yorkshire Police, has seen offenders jailed for a total of 505 years.
Five men – who were previously jailed in earlier Operation Tendersea trial – were convicted in February and jailed at Bradford Crown Court on Thursday for a total of 28 years. The trial had been delayed from 2020 but took place over the first two months of this year.
.. Mohammed Kammer, 38, Nahman Mohammed, 37, Wiqas Mahmud, 42, and Mohammed Imran Ibrar, 38, all from Huddersfield, were convicted alongside Abdul Rehman, 36, from Sheffield, after pleading not guilty to a catalogue of sickening sex offences.
‘Cultural sensitivity’ always means sensitivity to one culture alone – and it sure as hell isn’t the culture of white working-class girls
How does Yvette Cooper sleep at night? Reacting to the Government’s new crackdown on abominable grooming gangs, the shadow home secretary said, as if butter wouldn’t melt, “You can never allow any kind of sensitivities around race and ethnicity to prevent action on child sexual exploitation and abuse.” The Government, she huffed, should have done something eight years ago.
The UK Conservative Party are once again talking tough about the scourge of ‘grooming gangs,’ as Pakistani child rapists are euphemistically referred to in Britain. This should not surprise anyone. With the next general election likely only a year away, Home Secretary Suella Braverman is promising to make good Rishi Sunak’s 2022 pledge to stamp out this particular evil.
British Pakistanis are over-represented in this kind of child abuse
Much of the British media has not taken kindly to the Government’s new plans to clamp down on grooming gangs. After the Prime Minister announced a raft of policies to tackle the crisis, columnists singled out Home Secretary Suella Braverman for claiming that British Pakistanis were largely to blame for child abuse networks in the UK.
1/ Lots of people are spreading this misinformation about the role ethnicity has played in the grooming gang scandal. This is the biggest race hate scandal in 21st century Britain so we need to get it right. Thread… https://t.co/aAC6XZP5JV
— Charlie Peters (@CDP1882) April 3, 2023
A worthwhile read dispelling the disinformation spread by those seeking to run cover for the grooming gangs.
The time has come to right one of the greatest injustices seen in Britain in modern times. The systematic rape, abuse and exploitation of young girls by organised gangs of older men – and the disgraceful failure of the authorities to act despite ample evidence – is a stain on our country.
… First, the victims were – and are – some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Young females, overwhelmingly white girls from disadvantaged or troubled backgrounds, have been repeatedly raped, abused, intimidated, beaten and given addictive substances – and consistently let down by the authorities. Most of them have still not received justice.
Second, the perpetrators are groups of men, almost all British-Pakistani, who hold cultural attitudes completely incompatible with British values. They have been left mostly unchallenged both within their communities and by wider society, despite their activities being an open secret.
Many of them have gone unpunished and remain at large.
Political correctness must no longer prevent the police from using the ethnicity of suspects to identify grooming gangs, Rishi Sunak will say on Monday.
Asian grooming gangs will no longer be allowed to “evade justice because of cultural sensitivities”, a government spokesman said ahead of the unveiling of a package of measures designed to crack down on organised networks of abusers.
The Prime Minister will order police forces to improve the recording and analysis of ethnicity data – including sharing information throughout the country – in an attempt to prevent perpetrators of abuse from falling through the net.
