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Private Inquiry Says 250,000 Girls Were Subjected to Decades‑Long Grooming and Abuse

Publication has intensified demands for prosecutions, reinvestigations and policy changes while major numerical and demographic claims in the report remain contested.

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 16: People take part in the "Unite the Kingdom" rally on May 16, 2026 in London, England. The far-right "Unite the Kingdom" rally, organised by Tommy Robinson is to be held under strict Public Order Act conditions with demonstrators legally confined to a specific south-bound corridor from Kingsway to Parliament Square between late morning and early evening. To prevent clashes with a concurrent counter-protest, the Metropolitan Police has launched an unprecedented £4.5 million security operation deploying over 4,000 officers. The operation is using live facial recognition, armoured vehicles, and stringent hate speech monitoring, while the Home Office has barred multiple international far-right speakers from entering Britain. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
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Overview

  • The privately funded Rape Gang Inquiry, which published its report on Tuesday, alleges at least 250,000 mainly white, working‑class girls were raped, trafficked, filmed and tortured over decades and identifies similar patterns in 149 local authority districts.
  • Survivor testimony in the report describes repeated gang rape, trafficking between towns, filmed blackmail, forced pregnancies and extreme torture in so‑called ‘red rooms’ and offers detailed accounts of grooming with gifts, drugs and alcohol.
  • The report attributes a large share of perpetrators to Pakistani and other Muslim backgrounds using prior conviction analyses, but commentators and officials say those demographic figures are based on contested extrapolations and incomplete data.
  • It accuses police, social services, schools, the NHS and licensing bodies of repeatedly failing victims by ignoring reports, criminalising children, destroying evidence and renewing licences for drivers who allegedly facilitated abuse.
  • Publication has sharpened political divides and prompted follow‑up work by statutory processes and police, including the Longfield statutory inquiry and National Crime Agency reinvestigations, while Restore Britain calls for mandatory ethnicity recording, tougher sentences, deportations and private legal action.