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Zack Polanski was born David Paulden (full forms in reporting vary; some sources give David Stephen Paulden) on 2 November 1982 in Salford, Greater Manchester and changed his name at 18 to reclaim his...
The UK’s “grooming gang” scandal refers to multiple high-profile investigations and convictions of group-based child sexual exploitation across towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale and others, with inqui...
There is no reliable national tally of how many children in the have been raped by perpetrators described in reporting as ""; official reviews and reporting document dozens of convictions in specific ...
The analyses consistently identify , reported at 4.7 sexual crimes per 1,000 people, with following closely in published region-level figures . National survey releases from the Office for National St...
has a higher share of Muslims in its population than in 2025 — roughly one in five residents in Manchester identify as Muslim versus about 15% in London — but London still contains the largest absolut...
A review of the supplied reporting finds no documented, high-profile criminal case since 2005 that resulted in a proven, court-adjudicated link between Freemasonry and organized stalking or harassment...
’s formative milestones trace a path from scholarship grammar-school pupil in to drama training in and , followed by a patchwork early career in immersive theatre, screen roles and complementary profe...
The proportion of the UK population identifying as non‑white has increased since 2011: census and secondary analyses show a measurable decline in the White British/White share and growth in Asian, Bla...
There have been , including cases where perpetrators were white and mixed ethnicity, and official studies find that group-based child sexual exploitation offenders are most commonly white. At the same...
The clearest, verifiable fact is that ; beyond that, current lists circulating on social media are inaccurate or incomplete because mayoral religion is often not recorded and there are in England (dir...
are heavily concentrated outside in broad regions of , the North (especially and ), and parts of and , with notable pockets in non-metropolitan towns and peri‑urban areas such as , and in . National-l...
was born on 2 November 1982 in , , and raised in Salford, where his family’s Jewish roots and experiences of shaped his sense of identity and later decision to change his name at 18 . Reporting agrees...
Official statistics for England and Wales show roughly 720,506 arrests in 2023/24, a rise in most forces compared with the prior year and a picture marked by clear gender, regional and ethnic disparit...
Estimates and multiple studies converge on one clear finding: London and its surrounding South East corridor host the largest share of the UK’s undocumented or unauthorised population, though precise ...
London, Birmingham and Manchester each host large Muslim communities, but they differ in scale and local concentration: Birmingham is reported as the single local authority with the largest Muslim pop...
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has not produced a reliable national breakdown of grooming‑gang defendants by ethnicity because ethnicity is missing from the records in a large proportion of cases...
Staffing shortages in digital forensics and fraud investigation are measurably suppressing clearance rates for online crime in UK city police forces by creating long analysis backlogs, delaying eviden...
Baroness Louise Casey’s rapid national audit found that police and agency recording of perpetrators’ ethnicity in group-based child sexual exploitation (“grooming gang”) cases was seriously deficient:...
Data published by national outlets and individual forces show thousands of UK arrests for offensive online communications in 2023–24 and wide variation across forces: The Daily Mail’s compilation (bas...
Manchester authorities and city institutions show a mix of policy commitments, local programmes and community partnerships aimed at improving safety for trans and gender‑nonconforming people — includi...