Tom Crowther KC was asked by the Home Office to help establish local rape gang inquiries. Three months later, why has he heard nothing about their progress? Conservative MP Katie Lam put the question to Jess Phillips in the Commons today. Here is what Lam said.
I thank the Minister for advance sight of her statement.
In January, the Home Secretary said that the Government would conduct five local inquiries into the rape gangs who have terrorised so many innocent children. More than three months since the Government announced those local inquiries, Tom Crowther KC, a barrister invited by the Home Office to help establish them, knows almost nothing about their progress, and neither do we. Why is the framework for local inquiries now being led by Ministers, rather than by independent voices such as Tom Crowther? Why is the £5 million set aside for inquiries no longer being allocated, but instead delivered on an ‘opt-in’ basis? What does the Government intend to do about local leaders who say there is no need for an independent inquiry, as they do in Bradford and in Wales?
The girls we are talking about are predominantly white. The men who preyed on them were predominantly Muslim, generally either from Pakistan or of Pakistani heritage. One of the victims from Dewsbury was told by her rapist: “We’re here to fuck all the white girls and fuck the Government.”
Does the Minister accept that in many cases these crimes were racially and religiously aggravated? How, without a national inquiry, can we understand what part those factors played?
There is no question but that the state has failed these children time and again. Take the case of ‘Anna’ from Bradford. Vulnerable and in residential care, at the age of 14 she made repeated reports of rape and abuse to social workers who were responsible for her. Just the following year, aged 15, she ‘married’ her abuser in a traditional Islamic wedding ceremony. Far from stepping in to stop it, her social worker was a guest. The authorities then arranged for her to be fostered by her abuser’s parents. The ringleader of the Rochdale rape gang, Shabir Ahmed, was employed as a welfare rights officer by Oldham council. Yet not one person — not one — has been convicted for covering up these institutionalised rapes. Why have Ministers refused to establish a dedicated unit in the National Crime Agency to investigate councillors and officials accused of collusion and corruption?
I am sorry to say that that unit must also investigate police officers. In one case, the father of an abuse victim in Rotherham was arrested by South Yorkshire police when he attempted to rescue his daughter from her abusers. He was detained twice in one night, while on the very same evening, his daughter was repeatedly assaulted and abused by a gang of men. It is clear that these criminals were unafraid of law enforcement. In Kirklees, Judge Marson said: “You were seen with your victim on at least three occasions by the police… none of that deterred you, and you continued to rape her.”
How, without a national inquiry, can we know how and why these monsters enjoyed effective immunity for so long, and how can we be sure that it will not happen again?
Conservative Members have voted for a national inquiry, and tabled amendments that would guarantee the publication of ethnicity data on a quarterly basis, terminate the parental rights of convicted sex offenders and make membership of a grooming gang an aggravating factor during sentencing, so that offenders get the longer, harsher sentences that they deserve. Will the Minister commit to accepting those amendments to protect our children?
Finally, I would like to read to the House one particular ordeal — just one example of what these children have suffered. I must warn colleagues, and especially those in the Gallery, that this is extremely graphic, but we must not look away or sanitise this evil. Sentencing Mohammed Karrar of Oxford to life in prison, Judge Peter Rook said: “You prepared her” — that is his victim, a 13-year-old girl —
for gang anal rape by using a pump to expand her anal passage. You subjected her to gang rape by five or six men. At one point she had four men inside her. A red ball was placed in her mouth to keep her quiet. … When she was 12, after raping her, she threatened you with your lock knife. Your reaction was to pick up a baseball bat with a silver metal handle, strike her on the head with it, and then insert the baseball bat inside her vagina.
This is not about me, the Minister, the Home Secretary or any Hon. Members in the Chamber; it is about the little girls, up and down our country, whose brutal and repeated rapes were permitted and hidden by those in the British state whose jobs were to protect them. They deserve justice. In five towns, those children and their families may get partial answers, but I have mentioned five towns in the past few minutes alone, and there are at least 45 more. In those places, children and their families will get no answers at all, so what does the Minister have to say to them? The British people deserve to know the truth. What darker truths does the suffering of those girls reveal about this country — and why will the Government not find out?
Phillips replied that she thought “it is a shame that she referred to only one sort of child abuse victim, when the statement is clearly about all child abuse victims”. They still don’t get it, do they?
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They conclude, rightly sometimes, that you don’t know how to protect your girls and rear them on a low level culture. Can you imagine these animals doing this to a literate warior culture like feudal Japan. They would be sliced up before they even got their grubby fingers out of their pockets.
The Conservatives are starting to wake up from their 14 year slumber it seems. However action speaks louder than words. They had their chance(s) and blew it.
This is the tragedy of the Tories. On every point where they could score against Labour, on rape gangs, free speech, net-zero, borrowings, red-tape, defence, the NHS, all Labour have to do is to point to the Tories record in office & say;”so why didn’t you do something about it when you were in power?”
On every measure the Tories betrayed their voters & the country at large.
Excellent point
They are not showing nearly enough contrition
The Tories didn’t get it for 14 years either.
Can you not see what this means in terms of your own culture and how money worship has destroyed you? If you can’t see it then you are part of the ashbin of history just like all the other collateral damage. It isn’t some big strong monster that has atatcked you from outside. If you can’t look in the mirror then you are already effectively dead.
Because 2tk and hs government of communists hate the people who actually made this country great.
He should hang.
His head in shame.
Final sentence not required.
So Kneel has called time on enquiries in to the muslim Pakistani Rape Gangs. What a surprise. And Reform, led by a muslim, couldn’t be arsed to have anybody in the House. Farage is going to do the dirty yet again.
Weren’t Reform meant to be doing an independent inquiry? I remember them making a big deal about this a while back, now it’s all gone quiet. At least Rupert Lowe has pulled his finger out. Over half a million raised thus far;
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-rape-gang-inquiry-1
”All the main political parties have failed the rape gang victims.
Labour’s disgraceful few months, Reform betrayed their emphatic inquiry promise, and the Tories didn’t deliver over 14 years.
We don’t need more sodding social media graphics from MPs.
ACTION is required.”
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1909673465763741755
These places where these girls live. Can you imagine it the screams of your mother and your older sister as your dad rapes them. No educational opportunities in school no career opportunities afterwards. Your only opportunity is to meet Ahmed and he will make you a star amongst his friends. That is your culture because you have nothing left of your culture so you aren’t even capable of protecting your own children. Don’t start barking now when you have behaved like a cheap whore for decades. You are being fed the wages of whoredom.
They know on a spritual level when you sell your birthright for a mess of pottage. You are the real rapists of these girls.
Inconvenient for Labour to upset its perceived fanbase.
Inconvenient for Conservatives during 14 years in power.
Inconvenient for Reform now it is appeasing Islam.
The Daily Sceptic opens this morning with a mother serving the full 31-months sentence for an online-posting with no proven causal link to real-world violence – and closes this evening with the government brushing under the carpet state failings relating to heinous proven crimes in numerous towns and cities across the country.
Two-Tier justice is as Two-Tier justice does, in a country run by a human rights lawyer Prime Minister and former DPP, steeped in a judicial culture of “legal realism” – otherwise known as the judiciary being in the state’s pocket (and vice-versa).
See also Carl Schmitt and the Enabling Act.
I remember the Hutton Enquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly. It was convened by Tony Blair who was most unsuitable to be involved since Kelly’s whistle blowing directly brought Blair into disrepute (over warmongering false claims of Iraq’s possession of WMD). Blair set the terms of reference: ‘To investigate the circumstances surrounding Kelly’s death’.
On commencement the Coroner’s Inquest was suspended, supposedly so that the Inquiry could proceed without being unduly influenced by a Coroner’s finding. The Inquiry proceeded on the false presumption that Kelly did indeed die by his own hand. When the Inquiry eventually came to its faux laborious close and the Inquest was reconvened it abruptly ended on the basis that the Inquiry had a finding of suicide and that was somehow robust enough that it should not be examined again (even though an Inquiry does not require evidence to be given under oath).
So the idea to my mind that a government fostered Judicial Inquiry will find the glaringly obvious truths of the child rape gangs, the cover-ups, the high-level decisions and most specifically the dangers of importing alien cultures into our society, dangerous cultures warned of in advance, appears totally naive to gleefully assume.
Well recapitulated. Another lawyerly Prime Minister – how conveniently a legal training provides insights into the lawyerly box of tricks.
Hutton Inquiry (not Enquiry)!
You have missed one very important point about the inquiry into Dr Kelly’s murder. The files have been put under lock and key for 75 years. Now who does that if they have nothing to hide?
Lord Hutton made a request for the records provided to the inquiry, not produced in evidence, to be closed for 30 years, and that medical (including post-mortem) reports and photographs be closed for 70 years.
Subsequently, in 2010, the Ministry of Justice published details in a bid to “maintain public confidence public confidence in the inquiry”.
In a statement following the files’ release, Lord Hutton said:
“The post mortem report was available for inspection by those counsel.
“At the conclusion of the inquiry I requested -not ‘ordered’- that the post mortem report should not be disclosed for 70 years.” supposidly to ‘protect the family’.
There can only be one explanation as to why the labour government won’t hold a national inquiry – they don’t want to lose the Muslim vote.
That is one explanation but it does imply that labour think that the majority of Muslim voters are perfectly OK with the systematic organised rape of underage girls.
Really?
The trouble is the Muslim community seem very reluctant to speak out except for one or two exceptions.
Not just that: as Raja Miah states, many so-called Public Servants (social workers, councillors, police and MPs) were aware of the rape gangs and either turned a blind eye or helped facilitate them … that includes Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham.
He has named names and no-one has sued him. That tells you all you need to know.
Most, if not all the rape gang towns/cities were/are Labour controlled; they are protecting so-called Public Servants from investigation and prosecution.
There is so much to unravel in this story which will reveal the desperate lengths that politicians will go to, to cover their backsides. I hope we live long enough to see it.
Politicians dictionary:
Public enquiry: synonym for ‘brush under the carpet’
It is all so hideous and such terrible hypocrisy too. Everyone should support Raja Miah. There’s a good interview with him on ukcolumn.org – watch it to find out the work he is doing.
Carpets sweep and fob off and long grass come to mind. But one thing these elected accomplices don’t realise is long grass doesn’t work now
Labour can pride itself as being the party for the gang rape of white schoolgirls.