05-45C1-A783-317FB6DA3779″ rel=”noreferrer noopener” target=”_blank”>Hansard if you have the stomach for it. It matters that we understand just how unspeakable these crimes were.
The two key questions underlying all this are how rape gangs have been allowed to operate – and why there is such resistance to uncovering the full facts. These are, in reality, the same question, the answer to which was provided in a simple statement of the facts by Ms Lam yesterday:
‘The girls we are talking about are predominantly white. The men who preyed on them were predominantly Muslim, generally either from Pakistan or of Pakistani heritage.’
The look on Phillips’s face when Ms Lam dared to state this typified the problem – as if she had said something that should always remain utterly unsayable.
That's why.
So cowed were the police by the fear that they might be accused of institutional racism that they started to invert reality. Professor Alexis Jay’s report into Rotherham shows one detective waving away the complaint of a girl, who was 12 when the abuse began, as ‘100 per cent consensual’.
A further report into Rotherham by Dame Louise Casey found that the council deliberately covered up the rapes because it was worried about racial tensions. Professor Jay’s inquiry also reported that a senior police officer told a victim’s father that the town ‘would erupt’ if the routine abuse of white children by men of Pakistani origin became widely known. Political correctness was placed above protecting girls from rape and torture. The same story was repeated elsewhere.
The existence of the rape gangs shame Britain. But the decision that there must never be full accountability or a full understanding of why and how they have been allowed to operate is, in its own way, no less contemptible.
Added:
Genuinely surreal the top level focus given to a fictional Netflix drama vs a real and deeply harrowing set of crimes against actual non-fictional girls.
— James (@jhallwood) April 9, 2025
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