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“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

The jury at the Rotherham abuse trial has heard that having confronted him about his relationship with his daughter, the father of a 14-year-old girl ended up in a fight with the central defendant. Sheffield Crown Court heard how the

The jury at the Rotherham abuse trial has been told a police officer warned a victim of an alleged serial child abuser that fellow officers who witnessed what had happened would not give evidence for fear of landing themselves “in the

A jury at Sheffield Crown Court hearing evidence during the Rotherham abuse trial has been told staff at Rotherham Council threatened to take away the children of one of the 12 alleged victims for speaking out about child sexual exploitation. The alleged

Six men, five of which are from Muslim backgrounds, have been charged with the sexual exploitation, trafficking and rape of underage white girls in the town of Rochdale, Northern England. The charges relate to offences allegedly committed between 2004 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

The desperate situation in which alleged victims of a Rotherham grooming gang found themselves continues to shock as the abuse trial at Sheffield Crown Court progresses. Although some early effort was made by victims to bring matters to light, it

As the Rotherham abuse trial proceeds, further harrowing evidence of the alleged victims’ experiences comes to light. One such witness said she had a baby after being raped by two of the defendants, following which threats were made to take the child to

A witness in the ongoing Rotherham sex-grooming trial told a jury yesterday that she decided to reveal her childhood abuse at the hands of Muslim men so that authorities could no longer sweep such crimes “under the carpet”. The woman

The trial of five Muslim men and two women accused of sexually exploiting a group of young girls over a period of 13 years heard Friday that the girls were worked “like slaves” in between forced sex acts. A witness

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

In Britain the spread of “religiously sanctioned gender discrimination” and polygamy under Sharia Law means some Muslim men are having up to 20 children each, Baroness Cox has claimed. Baroness Cox was speaking in the House of Lords to promote a bill closing a

The leader of Rotherham Council today backed the announcement from South Yorkshire Police that it is looking to use the law to end ‘far-right’ protests. The police claim resources to protect victims of crime are instead being used to meet the constant demand to police

A “Rotherham Unites Muslim Lives Matter” rally descended into a riot yesterday afternoon. Two separate demonstrations were organised in the town that day; one by the group Britain First against Islamic rape gangs that proliferate in the town, and the other a so-called counter demonstration. Rotherham Unites Muslim Lives Matter demonstration can be seem chanting “Who’s streets? Our streets!” and “Enough is enough; Muslim Live Matter!” The group appears to have taken inspiration from the American “Black Live Matter” campaign.

There has been a massive move to alter the trajectory of the Westminster paedophile scandal in recent weeks, with mainstream political commentators, politicians of all stripes, and even political party operatives laying themselves and their reputations on the line to

The children’s charity Barnardo’s has received £3.1m in funding to recruit 15 specialists to work with victims of child sexual abuse in Rotherham.

South Yorkshire Police, the police force heavily criticised in the Rotherham abuse scandal, is still failing child sex exploitation victims. A post inspection review by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) into the force found “major improvements” still need to be made to its

West Midlands Police withheld a report warning that more than 100 predominantly white children – some only 13 years old – were at serious risk of child exploitation for fear it could inflame racial tension ahead of a General Election. It was finally revealed today,

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has said it has identified about 300 possible suspects in an investigation into child sex abuse in the town of Rotherham. Steve Baldwin, senior investigating officer at the NCA, said the 1,400 victims in the

A youth worker has outed herself as the whistleblower who exposed the Rotherham child grooming scandal, in the hope that more people will come forward. Jayne Senior handed two cardboard boxes full of documents to Times journalist Andrew Norfolk that

South Yorkshire Police members have nominated themselves for a communications award – even though they failed to stop 1,400 schoolgirls being abused over a 16-year period. The force has been nominated five times for four different campaigns in the UK

UKIP’s candidate for Rotherham, Jane Collins, has spoken out as a Pakistani-born father of five was convicted of child sex offences against girls in Peterborough, saying that although child sexual exploitation was carried out by men and women of all

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has helpfully revealed with an FOI request that South Yorkshire is the child rape capital of Britain. South Yorkshire’s local police authority saw a 577 per cent rise in reported child sexual exploitation cases between

Rotherham Council has revoked the taxi licenses of two men after they were arrested for questioning over historic child sex offences. The men, aged 36 and 37, were detained on suspicion of allegedly committing sexual offences against underage girls between

A Serious Case Review examining childhood sexual abuse which took place in Oxfordshire, England concludes that the role of Pakistani Muslim men in the rape and torture of white British girls should become a topic of national investigation and concern.

The author of the report into the failings of Rotherham Council and the police, Prof Alexis Jay, has been named by the Home Secretary as a member of the panel looking into historic child sex abuse. The experienced social worker

Scandal-hit Rotherham has been rocked by new accusations as a councillor has claimed Roma migrants are illegally marrying underage girls. Former deputy leader Emma Hoddinott alleged that the town’s large Roma community will include girls married before they are sixteen,

Victims of Pakistani paedophile gangs in Rotherham are calling for local council bosses to be stripped of their OBEs after they failed to protect around two thousand young girls. The call was made via the solicitor for forty of the

One of the Rotherham MPs who is suing UKIP MEP Jane Collins for libel for suggesting that they had information on child sexual exploitation had a daughter and a brother on Rotherham Council at the time of the abuse, Private

Imagine the following scenario. Ed Miliband visits a town somewhere in England for the purpose of cutting a ribbon to open a parliamentary Labour candidate’s office, then to speak to local people. A group of 40 protesters gathers outside the

South Yorkshire Police have been accused of passing information from victims of the Rotherham child sex ring to the perpetrators. The fresh allegations come as the MP at the time, Denis MacShane, was accused of ignoring a five page letter

As forty or so protesters mobbed the pavement outside UKIP’s Rotherham shop on Friday morning, another piece of democracy in the Yorkshire town, which I represent in the European Parliament,  died at the hands of mob rule. Nigel Farage, the

Eric Pickles has announced his intention to send a team of five commissioners into Rotherham Borough Council to completely take over the executive functions of the council, following the publication of a report which found the council to be “directionless” and

The Government  has closed down ‘dysfunctional’ Rotherham Council until an election can be held in 2016, with all powers currently held by the council’s Cabinet to be transferred to Commissioners answerable to the Secretary of State for Local Government. Eric