On the June of 16th, 2026 a report rocked the UK and the world. A report that painstakingly recounted one of the most horrific scandals that the British isles had ever faced, a scandal that is described in the report as – ‘the systematic targeting of vulnerable girls, overwhelmingly White British, by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs across towns and cities up and down the nation’ (Introduction).
The cover of Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry Report released on XA British MP from Great Yarmouth, a businessman and the founder of the Restore Britain party, Rupert Lowe released an independent crowdfunded inquiry rather than wait for a government led process.
Why did Lowe decide to launch an independent inquiry?
The fact that Lowe decided to launch a crowdfunded investigation reveals the frustrations he had had with government led inquiries into the grooming scandals that were painfully slow and were not willing to name the names or the ethnicities of the perpetrators in the name of preserving multiculturalism and ‘social cohesion’. He has repeatedly argued that the police, councils and successive governments have failed miserably to investigate historical cases of child sexual abuse pointing to a larger institutional failure to protect the victims of these gangs.
Institutional Failures
In the report Lowe justifies the independent report by saying that licensing authorities and governments not only failed to protect victims but actively allowed these gangs to operate with impunity. There has evidently been a lack of moral and political will to confront this horror, one astounding example of this hesitation, as the report mentions, is the Labour party’s initial refusal for a public inquiry altogether. In the January of 2025, an amendment to hold a national inquiry into the grooming gangs was rejected by MPs in a vote in the House of Commons. MPs voted by 364 votes to 11, a majority of 253, against the amendment to the children’s wellbeing and schools bill (inews).
During Prime Minister’s Questions earlier on Wednesday, Sir Keir Starmer rejected calls for a national inquiry, saying ‘this will delay things until 2031’ (Photo: House of Commons/Handout via Reuters)Another shocking fact about the whole ordeal was Sir Keir Starmer’s rejection for a national inquiry where he said – “this will delay things until 2031” and saying with a straight face that it was ‘shocking’ for anyone to vote down the bill which protects the most vulnerable in society (inews). This was ironic since it was his and the Labour Party’s refusal that slowed down the process of delivering justice. There have been multiple reported examples where authorities have argued against new inquiries, or hesitated to pursue certain aspects of the investigation such as ethnicity and race, citing concerns about community cohesion, race relations, social tensions etc. Some examples of this are –
- Rotherham – an independent inquiry led by Professor Alexis Jay found that some officials were reluctant to acknowledge patterns involving groups of offenders because of anxieties about being accused of racism and fears about ethnic tensions (The Week).
- Baroness Louise Casey’s 2025 audit – Casey’s review stated that authorities had often avoided discussing ethnicity, and that ethnicity data was missing in a large share of cases. The report described concerns inside institutions about appearing racist or increasing community tensions (Casey’s Report).
- Oldham – reporting around Oldham has described allegations that officials worried that openly confronting offender patterns could inflame local tensions or empower far-right groups (The Guardian).
These are just a few examples of institutional failures to confront the rot of the grooming gangs and a shocking ideological commitment to multiculturalism that is willing to sacrifice the lives of vulnerable women and children. All these instances of moral failure urged Lowe to crowdfund an independent objective report that would not shy away from naming where, how and why these grooming gangs operated.
The report states that whistleblowers who had previously been institutionally been ignored gave evidence – “Policing and justice failures were documented. Social care, NHS services including sexual health and mental health), education, taxi licensing, demographic trends, cultural and social issues, and ideological obstructions to justice were all scrutinised without restriction” (Page 6).
What is in the report?
The report contains statistics, victim testimonies, whistleblower testimonies, an overview of the demographics and culture of the perpetrators, the influence of Islam, the homegrown enabling factors, the impact on survivors and recommendations to solve this epidemic of a problem.
The report finds that these crimes have been committed for decades, since the 1950s -by Pakistanis in particular and have affected every region of the UK. It reveals the massive scale of the crimes – estimating that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced islamic conversion and lifelong trauma that will be near impossible to reverse (Page 7). This number has been extrapolated from a number of incidents including –
- Rotherham (Jay Report, 2014): At least 1,400 girls abused between 1997 and 2013, with some updated estimates exceeding this. Perpetrators were overwhelmingly Pakistani Muslim men.
- Telford Inquiry (2022): More than 1,000 children (predominantly girls) over decades, again with the same perpetrator profile.
In the court records and official inquiries, around 87% of those convicted in these group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE) cases had distinctively Muslim names and a vast majority of these men involved in these gangs were not convicted (Page 7).
Source: Northumbria Police | 16 men and one woman were jailed after the Operation Sanctuary investigation into the sexual abuse of vulnerable girls in Newcastle.It also mentions Dr. Taj Hargey, an imam with the Oxford Islamic congregation, who believes that the true proportion of gang members who are Muslims to be around 95% (London Loves Business). This figure vastly outnumbers the Muslim share of the overall United Kingdom population. The report concludes the statistical overview of the ethnicity by writing –
“The overwhelming majority of the rape gang networks consisted entirely of men from Muslim backgrounds – predominantly of Pakistani heritage, although smaller groups from Somali, Iranian, Syrian, Turkish, and other Muslim origins were also involved” (Page 7)
The Cultural Reasons for the Scandal
The cultural and religious reasons for the scandal are concluded as such – The demographic and cultural influences were clear. Offenders from Pakistani Muslim and other Muslim backgrounds followed an honor and shame-based clan ethic that saw non-Muslim girls, especially white working-class girls, not as individuals but as bodies to be used. This behavior drew on eight theological and legal aspects within Islam, including a belief in Muslim superiority from Quranic verses placing believers above non-believers and obligating correction of those outside the faith.
They justified their actions through the principle of al-walā’ wa-l-barā, a creed of loyalty and rejection that calls for separation from and hostility toward non-Muslims. Added to this were the elevation of men over women, forced marriage without a fixed minimum age of consent, the view of female sexuality as needing control, historical practices of sexual access to non-Muslim captives, and a religiously endorsed hierarchy placing conquered peoples below their rulers. Within tight-knit immigrant subcultures, these ideas became more than beliefs — they became a license, offering a moral framework that reframed exploitation as entitlement and cruelty as order, leading to the abuse and even killing of White British girls.
Victim Testimonials
There are several recorded summaries of victim testimonials in the report. Each and every case is harrowingly painful to read, especially certain incidents of inaction or indifference by the authorities that will induce rage in any sane human being. The first case is of a victim who goes by the alias ‘Chloe’ – Chloe was a popular child at school who performed well academically but unfortunately could not go through with her promise because of repeated cases of rape by her own stepfather and muslim men, primarily Pakistanis. Men who groomed her by providing her with alcohol and drugs and the emotional comfort that she did not find in her own familial space.
She recounts that physical contact, including kisses, became increasingly common. And soon after the abuse started and did not stop for years. Rather than opening an investigation and pursuing her abusers, the police dismissed Chloe as a prostitute. The police asked her whether she was consenting to the sexual activity, and despite Chloe telling the police that she did not understand the definition of ‘consent’ – the police reported that she did give consent (Page 21). On another occasion, Chloe was in the town centre and was identified as a missing child by a police officer, when Chloe told the officer about the full extent of the abuse she was going through every day, the response was that there was nothing that could be done and she was let go.
Another case is of Fiona, a girl who grew up in a highly abusive household which was marked by domestic and emotional violence resulting in a very distressing family environment. This abuse led Fiona to enter care at the age of 13, placed in a children’s home that was identified as high risk for sexual exploitation in a previously filmed documentary. From the age of 13, she was groomed by adult Pakistani men aged between 24-45. The same pattern followed – she was handed affection, alcohol and drugs which very suddenly escalated to rape, drug dependency, threats and trafficking.
Perhaps the most egregious incident in the case of Fiona was that – on one occasion, a police officer returned Fiona to the house where the abuse was occurring and told the men to – “have fun with her” – a statement that is almost too demonic to be believable. The gang intended on trafficking Fiona to Kashmir and she was only prevented from leaving the country because she did not have a passport.
A damning indictment of multiculturalism
The whole ordeal of grooming gangs has been going on for the last 70 years, with the first clear recorded case of grooming in 1955 when four Bradford based Pakistani men were accused of having sexual relations with a 15 year old girl from Middlesborough (The Asian Independent). Since then, the emergence of grooming gangs who abuse and groom children and women have only grown, with the development of organised networks that transported victims between towns and cities.
What this whole ordeal has revealed is that multiculturalism has been a massive failure, the open society that had been envisioned by Karl Popper – of a cosmopolitan society welcoming people from all cultural backgrounds with differing ideas of how to organize and behave in society – has now been proven to be a utopian dream, a neo-liberal fantasy that has no place in reality.
