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Since 2010 there have been multiple high-profile prosecutions involving predominantly South Asian or Pakistani-origin defendants in child sexual exploitation cases—cases in Derbyshire, Huddersfield, R...
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...
The available investigations confirm that group-based sexual exploitation and "grooming gangs" have occurred in the UK and that institutional failures allowed abuse to continue in high-profile cases; ...
The claim that "the UK is protecting Muslim rape gangs" overstates the evidence: multiple official and investigative reports document by police and agencies to prevent and properly investigate group-b...
The claim that "90% of the people in the UK convicted of grooming/child rape are Muslims" is not supported by available national data and is a misleading simplification: official datasets do not hold ...
Multiple 2025 local reports identify several Muslim women holding mayoral or lord mayor ceremonial roles in English councils, most prominently Safiya Saeed in Sheffield, Rukhsana Ismail in Rotherham, ...
Available reporting shows concentrated, high-profile convictions and inquiries—especially Rotherham, Rochdale and other grooming cases—where many convicted perpetrators were of Pakistani or British‑Pa...
Available national data do not state a reliable proportion of convicted grooming-gang offenders who are British‑born because ethnicity and nationality are poorly recorded: Baroness Casey’s 2025 audit ...
Available materials do not provide a definitive, sourced list of serving Muslim mayors of London boroughs in 2025. The documents reference prominent Muslim figures—most notably Sadiq Khan as Mayor of ...
The ceremonial Lord Mayor of Sheffield is Councillor Safiya Saeed, who was inaugurated as the city’s 128th Lord Mayor in May 2025 . The directly elected metro mayor who covers Sheffield as part of the...
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...
Since the Rotherham and Rochdale trials, media narratives have been central in racialising the concept of “grooming gangs”: high-profile coverage that foregrounded the Pakistani or South Asian backgro...
Local inquiries in Rotherham and Rochdale found that victims were overwhelmingly white British while many convicted perpetrators in those cases were men from South Asian backgrounds, and they condemne...
A simple, single-number answer is not fully supportable from publicly available court data: a 2020 academic review of 498 grooming-gang convictions found 83% of perpetrators were of Muslim background,...
Official UK data show child abuse is overwhelmingly perpetrated by men and most recorded cases lack complete ethnicity information, so definitive comparisons between Muslim (or South Asian) perpetrato...
Available reporting shows no single, definitive national statistic comparing rape reporting rates specifically for “Pakistani-origin” people versus other ethnic groups across the UK; instead, official...
UK authorities have mounted a mixture of criminal investigations, independent inquiries, policy responses and data‑reforms to address allegations of group‑based child sexual exploitation often labelle...
The available materials do not support a single, verifiable total number of Muslim mayors in English cities as of 2025; sources cite specific individual appointments and point to broader trends but di...