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South Yorkshire

County of England, UK

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Dec 7, 2025
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rape gangs in the UK

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...

Jan 25, 2026
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how many children have been raped by pakistani rape gangs in the uk

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 ...

Nov 1, 2025
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Have there been any high-profile cases of non-Pakistani grooming gangs in the UK?

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...

Feb 4, 2026

Which English cities or towns currently have Muslim mayors and when were they elected?

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...

Jan 3, 2026

How do Crown Prosecution Service reports classify ethnicity of grooming gang defendants?

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...

Jan 2, 2026

What did Baroness Louise Casey’s audit find about data and ethnicity in grooming gang cases?

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:...