rotherham scandal

Convicted paedophile MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been revealed to have been appointed to a panel on grooming gangs by the Conservative party.

A former senior police investigator in Rotherham has been accused of not acting on evidence that children were sexually exploited in the region.

An independent report into child grooming in the UK has found that police often failed to record the ethnicity of both suspects and victims.

The UK government has made an “outrageous” decision to end a grant supporting victims of grooming gangs in Rotherham, a local MP has said.

A report has found that police in Rotherham ignored decades of abuse carried out by ‘Asian’ grooming gangs against young girls for fear of sparking “racial tensions”.

Six men have been convicted of the historic grooming and raping of vulnerable underaged girls in Rotherham, the latest convictions to come out of the National Crime Agency’s Operation Stovewood.

Police have arrested 40 suspects over the last two months in relation to a probe into allegations of serious child sex abuse in Rotherham, detectives have said.

A woman who was sexually abused as a teenager by violent, Rotherham grooming gang ringleader Arshid Hussain is demanding a change in the law to stop councils encouraging rapists to seek access to their victims’ children.

A Labour MP who spoke out against the UK’s “problem” with Pakistani grooming gangs has been given extra security by terror police after sustained attacks from “anti-racist” and Muslim interest groups.

The defence lawyer for a Rotherham man on trial for sexually abusing two underage girls claimed that one alleged victim “made up” the assault claim to “carry on the campaign in relation to Muslims”.

The number of investigations into the police response to allegations of child abuse and Muslim grooming gangs in Rotherham has increased to nearly 100, the police watchdog has revealed.

A Tory MP has slammed the BBC for not “standing up for [the] white working class” after the corporation was accused of ignoring revelations about the Telford grooming gang scandal.

The number of victims of Rotherham grooming and rape gangs has risen even higher than the 1,400 figure which shocked the nation in 2014, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed.

The chief of children’s services in Rotherham has denied that there was a racial aspect to the city’s historic child abuse scandal which saw 1,400 underage, white, English girls groomed and raped by Pakistani-origin Muslim men over a 16-year period.

Ten men are on trial accused of raping, abducting, and supplying drugs to eight teenage girls in the town of Rotherham.

Three Rotherham men are on trial accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old in a graveyard and car park the 1990s.

A gang of twelve mostly-Muslim men from the Rotherham area have appeared in court to face 45 sexual abuse offences against eight girls under the age of 16.

Rotherham Council has been nominated for a “social work employer of the year” award, despite the authority being slammed in government reports for failing 1400 girls raped and abused by Muslim grooming gangs.

Britain must confront the “profoundly racist” reality of Muslim grooming and rape gangs after the Newcastle case, a former head of the Crown Prosecution Service and Liberal Democrat Lord has said.

Rotherham grooming victim Sammy Woodhouse has said she was “betrayed” by authorities in the town, who failed to act on the violent child rapist for fear of “being perceived as racist”. Now campaigning for other victims of sexual abuse, she

Members of a Muslim rape gang shouted “Allahu akbar” (my god is greatest) in court yesterday as they were jailed for raping, drugging and abusing girls aged 11 and 13 in the town of Rotherham.

Five mostly Muslim men from Rotherham, including three brothers, have been found guilty of subjecting two young girls to two years of violent sexual abuse, including rape and false imprisonment.

Five men from Rotherham, alleged part of “Asian grooming gangs”, are facing 23 charges of sexually abusing two girls, aged 12 and 13, over a two-year period.

Police have denied “cultural niceties or political correctness were a barrier” after a damning report found dozens of opportunities were missed to protect a schoolgirl repeatedly gang raped by a Muslim gang.

Ten Muslim men have been cleared of violent disorder after rioting following a ‘Muslim Lives Matter’ march, arguing they were provoked by walking past a ‘far right’ pub.

Police in Telford have been accused of ignoring child sex abuse after it emerged volunteers have been passing evidence of grooming to them for three years.

Rotherham Council has announced a new “diverse” panel to “advise” police on how to deal with “extremist” marches in South Yorkshire, kowtowing to local Muslims who rioted and threatened to boycott the police unless they were given more power. The

South Yorkshire Police — the force that turned a blind eye to the sexual grooming of 1400 girls by Muslim gangs in Rotherham — have confessed reporting to the media just a quarter of those charged with child sex offences, blaming

Whilst acknowledging that ‘hate crimes’ fell in the town last year, Rotherham Police have promised to increase patrols as they are concerned about potential “Islamophobic attacks” after three Muslim men were convicted of grooming underage girls this week. During the trial of the

The police watchdog is examining almost 200 Rotherham officers after corrupt individuals, one related to the convicted groomers, allegedly conspired to protect the Muslim child sex gang. One officer and local politician, who is a family relative of the brothers convicted yesterday, is

“Hand-wringing” by authorities and their focus on politically correct multiculturalism mean serious problems in ethnic minority communities have not been addressed, according to David Cameron’s ‘equalities tsar’. Louise Casey (pictured above with Mr. Cameron) heads up a Government review of opportunities and

Hearing evidence during the Rotherham abuse trial, a jury at Sheffield Crown Court has been told that a policeman and a councillor played their part in a deal for one of the grooming gang defendants to hand over a missing teenage girl in

As the Rotherham abuse trial continues, Sheffield Crown Court has heard evidence that a corrupt policeman received payment to prevent the arrest of a violent member of a child grooming gang. One of the 12 alleged victims of the grooming gang — known as

Further allegations as to what happened to teenage girls at the hands of grooming gangs have come to light in the Rotherham abuse trial currently being heard at Sheffield Crown Court, including accusations of torture. Giving video evidence to the Rotherham abuse

The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal continues to develop as the National Crime Agency (NCA), the ‘British FBI’, prioritises an investigation into two ‘current or former’ Rotherham councillors.  Under the leadership of senior investigating officer Steve Baldwin, 60 or so officers

An all-male group (see above) called ‘British Muslim Youth’ has called for a boycott of a major UK police force, threatening to boycott any Muslim organisation that does not comply with its new edict. “We accept that we have made mistakes,” a police