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The UK Inquiry Into Grooming Gangs: London (6/20/26)
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Rupert Lowe’s inquiry says it received evidence from survivors, relatives, whistleblowers, professionals and political figures about organised child sexual exploitation in communities across the United Kingdom. The report describes a recurring pattern...
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What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. In this episode, we're going to pick back up where we left off with the Grooming Gangs report coming out of England Overview of Crimes Rape gangs have exploited children systematically across every region of the United Kingdom for decades. The Independent Chair of the center of Excellence for Children's Care and Protection, Alexis J. Has identified the 1970s as the decade when immigrant rape gangs first began tormenting the girls of Britain. 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 15 year old girl from Middlesboro. This was soon after former colonial subjects from the subcontinent. After as much as the Caribbean became eligible to enter the UK in non trivial numbers under the British Nationality act of 1948, what began as a singular and small scale instance became systematic and industrial over time. These horrific crimes have only escalated in recent decades, especially following Tony Blair's 97 victory and the start of orchestrated mass immigration. With greater numbers came greater opportunities for abuse. Perpetrators built organized 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, kids 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 that they were white trash or cover who deserved punishment. The authorities at every level human, 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 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 confirmed that this was never a series of isolated local failures. It was a coordinated nationwide pattern of organized 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 Earth originates directly from a statement in The House of Lords by Lord Pearson of Rannoch on May 14, 2019. Do the government accept that if we extrapolate nationally the J Report on Rotterdam and other reports from Telford and Oxford, there appear to have been upwards of 250,000 young white girls raped in this country, very largely by Muslim men, usually several times a day for for years. He added that this number is probably an underestimate. This extrapolation now has greater support due to further data that's been collected derived from scaling the patterns documented in major inquiries. Rotterdam J Report 2014 at least 1400 girls abused between 1997 and 2013, with some updated estimates exceeding this. Perpetrators were overwhelmingly Pakistani Muslim men. The 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 four corners of the country in at least 149 local authority districts. When the Rotterdam Telford scale is applied across the documented national distribution and multiplied by the extreme underreporting 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's reasonable to assume that since sexual abuse of all kinds tends to be underreported, this is also true of grooming gangs. The Independent has reported that almost 19,000 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. After decades of abuse, victims must number in the hundreds of thousands. The full scale is not yet known. Every major review has emphasized that recorded statistics severely understate reality. Baroness Casey, National Audit on Group Based Child sexual Exploitation 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 and multiple local inquiries 2022 and 2025 it's 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's likely that the true extent is far worse. The scale, the tactics, the perpetrator profile and the systematic 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 epicenter 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 that there were no grooming gangs operating in the city. As our inquiry heard from Susan hall, leader of the Conservatives in London assembly. The rape gang phenomenon is in fact endemic within the Capitol. 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 described evidence from whistleblowers as malicious and politically motivated. He told the London assembly that the problem was far more complex than in any other part of the country and that young people were being exploited through country lines rather than organized group based child sexual exploitation. These statements were made despite the Metro Police holding reports of young girls being plied with alcohol and drugs and 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 detailing exactly these patterns of offending. He read the files, yet continued to deny the existence of grooming gangs. In public shadow, Home Secretary Chris Phillip MP has accused Khan of facilitating a cover up. And other politicians stated that both the Mayor and and the Metropolitan Police had been denying grooming gangs in London. Campaigners including whistleblower Maggie Oliver and Chris Wild described the Capitol 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 of 2025, the Metropolitan Police announced announced a review of 9,000 child sexual exploitation cases. The National Crime Agency launched Operation Beacon Port 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 Metro Police detective has described industrial scale child prostitution and grooming in the Capitol with authorities aware but opting for inaction due to a mixture of incompetence, laziness and corruption. 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 organized 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 cons have promoted. As for others in authority, fears of being labeled racist paralyzed the Metro Police and City hall in the same way it did the Rotterdam 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 relevant bodies still refuse to collect data on ethnicity, willfully rendering themselves blind to the very behavioral patterns that are supposed to aid law enforcement in its pursuit of justice. The Metro 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 his senior leadership of the Metro Police must answer for their role in this scandal. Until the Capitol confronts the truth with the same rigor now demanded elsewhere, the children of London remain at risk and the state remains complicit. All right, folks, we're going to wrap up right here. And in the next episode dealing with the topic, we're going to get to victim testimony. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.