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Around 87% of those convicted bore distinctively Muslim names — a figure one Oxford imam believes understates the true proportion, which he puts at 95%.

An independent, survivor-led inquiry into organised child sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom has documented what it describes as “one of the most horrendous failures in the history of the country”.

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report, chaired by MP Rupert Lowe and released Tuesday, found that at least 250,000 white British girls were subjected to repeated rape, trafficking, torture, and forced Islamic conversion by networks of predominantly Pakistani Muslim men operating across close to 40% of all local authority districts in the UK.

The report runs to 219 pages and, according to Lowe, has been downloaded more than one million times since publication.

Lowe, who represents Great Yarmouth under the Restore Britain banner, launched the inquiry with funds from more than 20,000 members of the public after the Starmer government refused a full statutory national investigation.

“The evidence presented throughout the hearings confirmed what had long been known but repeatedly denied by many in the political class,” the report states. It traces crimes as far back as 1955, with a dramatic escalation following Tony Blair’s 1997 election victory and what the report describes as the “orchestrated mass immigration” that followed.

Survivor Chloe — one of the inquiry’s central witnesses, whose identity has been protected — described being abused from the age of eleven. Groomed with alcohol and drugs by Pakistani Muslim men, she was collected from school and streets by taxi drivers, trafficked across Britain for months while her photograph was shown on television, forced to convert to Islam, and raped by — in her words — “hundreds and hundreds and hundreds” of men.

Police dismissed Chloe as a prostitute, according to the report. On learning she was being sexually abused by gangs of Muslim men, social workers took her to a sexual health clinic, where she was diagnosed at thirteen with chlamydia in her throat and vagina, gonorrhoea, genital warts, and pelvic inflammatory disease. Neither the social workers nor the clinic staff questioned how she had contracted them or made a safeguarding referral.

A Pattern Repeated Across 149 Districts

The inquiry found the same methods, perpetrator profiles, and institutional inaction replicated in at least 149 local authority districts. Girls as young as eleven were befriended by young Muslim men, supplied with alcohol and drugs, collected from school gates and care homes in taxis, then taken to houses, restaurants and hotels where they were raped repeatedly by groups of men. Many were filmed for blackmail and told they were “white trash” or “kuffar” who merited punishment. Some were trafficked to the Middle East for what the report describes as “Islamic marriage”.

In court records and official inquiries, around 87% of those convicted in group-based child sexual exploitation cases bore distinctively Muslim names. According to Oxford imam Dr Taj Hargey, the true proportion of gang members who are Muslim may be closer to 95%.

The report identifies eight theological and legal aspects of Islam as providing religious justification for the crimes. These include, in the report’s own words, “the doctrine of Muslim superiority drawn from Quranic verses,” “a system of sex slavery that authorises sexual relations with non-Muslim captives,” “the absence of any fixed minimum age of consent,” and the principle of al-walā’ wa-l-barā’ — which the report describes as demanding “enmity towards non-Muslims”.

Survivor Fiona estimated she was abused by between 50 and 100 men, of whom only two were not Pakistani. When her mother called police to report her missing and mentioned a history of abuse by Asian men, the report records the call handler’s response: “You can’t describe them as Asian men because that’s racist. You should just be glad your child is being taught a different culture.” On one occasion, according to Fiona’s testimony, a police officer returned her to the house where the abuse was occurring and told the men to “have fun with her”.

Institutional Failure and Labour’s Cover-Up of Rape Gangs

The report provides evidence that police forces criminalised victims instead of perpetrators, destroyed evidence and allowed known rapists to walk free on bail. It also documents social care services that placed children in trafficking hubs inside children’s homes and retaliated against whistleblowers.

The NHS recorded genital injuries and repeated sexually transmitted infections in children as young as 13, then discharged victims back to their abusers, according to the report, while taxi licensing authorities renewed permits for drivers who formed the logistical backbone of the networks.

“Political failure lies at the heart of the scandal,” the report states, naming the Labour Party as bearing primary responsibility.

Labour-dominated councils and MPs were briefed on the gangs and later denied knowledge. In January 2025, Labour MPs voted en masse against a Conservative amendment calling for a national statutory inquiry, defeating it 364 votes to 111. Sir Keir Starmer and his frontbench opposed the measure, dismissing public concern as “far-right” agitation.

The national inquiry the government eventually announced was drafted with terms so narrow they explicitly exclude examination of the ethnic, cultural and religious drivers of the crimes.

The report details Sadiq Khan’s repeated public denials that grooming gangs operated in London, despite the Metropolitan Police holding reports of exactly these crimes and Khan having direct access to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary documents confirming the patterns. A Daily Express investigation found that Khan read those files and continued to deny the gangs’ existence.

Calls for Statutory Inquiry and Prosecution

The inquiry’s recommendations include mandatory ethnicity and religion recording for all offenders; cumulative sentencing with a 50-year minimum tariff for ringleaders; automatic deportation of all foreign nationals convicted of group-based child sexual exploitation, extended to immediate family members where complicity is established; and the closure of mosques and community organisations found to have harboured perpetrators.

The report also recommends a national compensation scheme for victims, noting failures in the existing Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, including the refusal of compensation for Rotherham survivor and inquiry co-leader Sammy Woodhouse on the grounds that she had “consented” to her own abuse. The scheme would be funded by a levy on convicted perpetrators’ assets and the defined benefit pensions of any police officers or social services staff found guilty of culpable negligence in enabling the abuse.

In his concluding message, Lowe announced that further witness testimonies would be released, perpetrators named under parliamentary privilege, and civil and private prosecutions pursued where authorities failed in their duties.

“This Inquiry was founded because the authorities failed to act, the politicians failed to act, the civil service failed to act,” he wrote. “Everyone failed to act. We will not make that same mistake again.”

Official investigations, including the National Crime Agency’s Operation Beaconport and the Metropolitan Police review, remain ongoing.

The report is available here.

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