Baroness Casey’s rapid audit into the rape-gangs scandal has been published, with the Government accepting her recommendation to hold a national inquiry into the scandal in a humiliating U-turn. Casey has called for ethnicity to be recorded for every offender, and in the audit she completely demolishes apologists’ frequent claims that this is not a problem particularly related to Pakistani communities. Indeed, there is an entire section on “denial”, as she slates how “the system has consistently failed to fully acknowledge” the central role of ethnicity in this travesty. Children, meanwhile, were seen by those who should have protected them as collaborators in their own abuse, rather than victims. “If we’d got this right years ago,” she says, “then I doubt we’d be in this place now.”
While it is shocking and damning to hear such things stated so bluntly, much of Casey’s findings are things we already knew. Yet there is one part of the report which is so disturbing that it threatens to plunge the country into chaos. After it was leaked (it has been in the hands of the Government since last week) it had already prompted nervousness inside Downing Street about civil unrest.
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