Girls locked in cages, raped by 700 men: UK MP shares Pak grooming gang testimonies :::::: "Patterns of predominantly Pakistani males, combined with gross negligence from public bodies, are identifiable"

"Patterns of predominantly Pakistani males, combined with gross negligence from public bodies, are identifiable"  

Girls locked in cages, raped by 700 men: UK MP shares Pak grooming gang testimonies  

The British MP read out harrowing accounts of systematic sexual abuse, violence, intimidation, racial targeting and alleged police misconduct, alongside claims that public authorities, healthcare workers and children's home staff repeatedly failed to protect vulnerable children.  

British MP Rupert Lowe has reignited debate over the UK's 'grooming gangs' scandal after an emotional speech in Parliament in which he read testimonies of survivors. 

He told Parliament that the world should hear what was said during the two weeks of our independent rape gang inquiry hearings, which he said should never have needed to happen. He urged MPs to listen to the testimonies of these brave survivors and to finally act.  

The video of the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak at the hands of Vickrum Digwa in Southampton is horrifying. 

But Nigel Farage’s decision to respond to these events by calling for “pure cold rage” and insisting we recognise that “white lives matter” is a worrying sign of an increasingly racialised turn in the politics of the British right.

This shift has not taken place in a vacuum, says an article in London's 'The Guardian'.   

"Pakistani grooming gangs" refers to organized, predominantly British-Pakistani networks responsible for the systematic child sexual abuse, trafficking, and exploitation of vulnerable, predominantly white, teenage girls across the United Kingdom.  

Victims were lured with gifts, attention, alcohol, and drugs, then systematically isolated, blackmailed with violence, and passed among networks of men.

In his remarks, Lowe read out harrowing accounts of systematic sexual abuse, violence, intimidation, racial targeting and alleged police misconduct, alongside claims that public authorities, healthcare workers and children's home staff repeatedly failed to protect vulnerable children.  

The testimonies were gathered during an independent inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation. According to material linked to that effort, a private investigation led by him last year identified "gang-based child sexual exploitation" in at least 85 areas across the UK.  

In June last year, Lowe launched Restore as a “political movement” before transforming it into a fully fledged national political party this February. While multimillionaire Lowe is its only MP, a small clique of young activists, including Charlie Downes, Harrison Pitt and Lewis Brackpool, have been some of its most prominent spokespersons.

The launch of the party was met with enthusiasm across large sections of the far right, particularly among those who view Reform as insufficiently hardline on immigration. Last June, during the launch event in his constituency of Great Yarmouth, Lowe drew applause from supporters after promoting a policy centred on large-scale deportations, declaring that “millions will have to go”.

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A statement issued by Lowe in August last year said "rape gangs", predominantly comprising men of Pakistani heritage, had been active for decades and were far more widespread than thought

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