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How Pakistan’s rape culture led to the UK grooming gangs

19 January 2025

9:07 PM

19 January 2025

9:07 PM

Lahore, Pakistan

Pakistani-origin men are up to four times more likely to be reported to the police for child sex grooming offences than the general population in England and Wales, the first national police scheme data appeared to suggest last week.

The perpetrators of three of the most gruesome child abuse scandals in modern British history, in Rochdale, Rotherham, and Telford, were overwhelmingly of Pakistani origin.

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