Pakistanis celebrated Islamic festival by raping young White girls, UK inquiry hears

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An inquiry into Britain’s Pakistani child rape gangs has heard horrific testimony from survivors, including accounts of Muslims celebrating Eid by raping young White girls, and a 13-year-old raped by up to 700 men.

The two-week proceedings were launched on Monday by Independent MP Rupert Lowe, who crowdfunded the independent inquiry to expose the racial and religious aspect to the UK’s “grooming gang” scandal, which an official review found last year was covered up by successive governments and authorities at multiple levels.

“The mass rape of White working class girls by gangs of predominately Pakistani Muslim men has been allowed to fester away for decades by our rotten establishment. That must now end,” Mr Lowe said at the beginning of this week’s hearings.

The inquiry heard one victim was raped between 600 and 700 men over a three-year period beginning when she was 13, that girls would be trafficked to different cities, taken to a house and then “they’d send me in, like a conveyor belt”.

Girls also testified about being beaten, kidnapped, had guns pointed at their heads, held at knifepoint before being raped by 10 to 15 carloads of men, and locked inside rooms and told they wouldn’t be allowed to leave if they didn’t comply.

“[The gangs] are untouchable. They are. Because no one wants to admit that there’s a problem because they don’t want to be deemed as racist. And because it goes higher up and they don’t want it to be blown open,” one survivor testified.

Survivor Fiona Goddard, from Bradford, told the inquiry she and another girl from a care home were slowly groomed over a period of weeks before they were taken to a dingy hotel used for prostitution, plied with alcohol, and sexually assaulted.

She said the rape gangs were run by mainly second-generation Pakistani men, who would then bring in more recent arrivals and illegal immigrants and force girls to have sex with them.

“And I can tell you now not a single one of them men during that time that I met were coming here fleeing war and were scared of what were going on at home,” she said.

“They were coming here because they thought that they could have fun. None of them were good people. Not a single one had any other mindset other than drinking, drugs and taking a girl whether she wanted to or not.”

She further testified that between the age of 13 and 18 she was raped by between 50 and 100 men, only two of which weren’t Pakistani Muslims. At one stage was kept in a property the gang called the “party house” where at any one time there would be 10 to 20 men constantly coming and going.

“One time on Eid, they … I remember … I remember him shouting at me, telling me I had to get friends out because his relatives were coming from Birmingham to celebrate Eid and they were expecting girls to be waiting here for them,” she told the inquiry.

A sister of a survivor told the inquiry the police turned a blind eye to the rape gangs because of “racial tensions”, and said she was “absolutely disgusted” with the officers responsible.

“They knew what was happening, they helped the perpetrators,” she said.

Ms Goddard also recounted an incident during the years she was raped aged 13 to 18 where she was beaten and abused for a “full night”. She then threatened one of the rape gang members with a knife, and as she was chasing him outside a police van pulled up.

“The police instead let him drive away and they arrested me for possession of a lethal weapon in a public place because I left the doorstep,” she said.

On X she added: “There were three police officers there in a police riot van. Two were older White men around late 40s. One was a younger White man. Probably about 28. He didn’t want to arrest me. I remember him saying look at the state of her. I had a black eye and all my lips were bust open and my top was ripped exposing some of my bra.

“I was crying and you could clearly tell that I was the victim. The young police officer was out voted by the older two who looked at me like I was shit on the bottom of their shoe. I remember the young police officer not saying a word after that. He sat quietly all the way to the police station while the other two laughed and joked between them.”

Ms Goddard also told the inquiry the police were also complicit in an attempt by the rape gang to traffic her overseas.

“There were also some police officers that had conversations with these men when they were they were moaning about the police turning up at the house, and they said if you get her to sign herself out of care, then we won’t have to turn up again, you can do what you want with her then.

“That’s when they started encouraging me to sign myself out of care so they could traffic me to Kashmir. They said they wanted to take me back to meet their families. So luckily I didn’t have a passport otherwise I might not be sat here right now.”

The inquiry also heard harrowing testimony from families, including one mother who said the police refused to investigate the man her daughter was found with after disappearing on Christmas Day, and told her to come to an arrangement with him instead.

“The first time police brought her back, I said to the police, she’s with a strange guy in the flat, charging her phone apparently, and they didn’t want to talk about who the man was, where he was from, anything,” she told the inquiry.

“All the police had to say to be is, can you both come to some agreement where you both can work together so she doesn’t go missing again?”

One father, Marlon West, told the inquiry he found his missing 14-year-old daughter Scarlett being prostituted out in a house four doors down from a police station, but officers refused to help because he lived in a different jurisdiction, or said they were going to turn up but never did.

“Eventually two officers texted me and said ‘your daughter is safe, she’s with her friend’. So they police left her there, with the groomer,” he said.

He was also told to stop reporting his daughter missing because he was “screwing up the [missing persons] figures”.

Speaking about the effect of the rapes on Scarlett, he said: “I’m not going to sit here and say ‘oh yeah, she was an angel, she was amazing’, because she really wasn’t, because she was a character. Unfortunately I will never see that again, because what happened to her completely destroyed all that personality.”

“She was trafficked across the country … Bradford, Birmingham and London, mostly Bradford,” he said, adding that he believed she was transported by an interlinked network of Muslim gangs.

He said Scarlett was now “very guarded” in relationships, and “never wants children or to being children into this dreadful world”.

A mother of a girl who was raped when she was just 11 told the hearing she saw messages on her daughter’s phone telling her to go out and meet men to give them oral sex.

“Who was the guy?” one of the hearing panellists asked.

“There’s so many, I can’t even tell you now,” the mother replied.

The mum of another rape gang victim told the inquiry: “We’ve had to firebomb-proof our letterbox because we’ve had threats to have the house burnt down. She’s had threats to have her throat slashed. I’ve had threats to get my throat slashed. This has been continuous for four years, constantly.”

“She told me after a while there was a sex room in the school. I told the school about it, but they completely shut it down and said she was lying,” a fourth mother testified.

Mr Lowe said he has now requested data from the Home Office about illegal immigrants involved in rape gangs, and called for the police leadership to be prosecuted.

“Thousands and thousands and thousands of White girls were allowed to be gang-raped by Muslim men exactly because these men were Muslim. We are seeing it over and over in our inquiry hearings. Police even deliberately left these girls with their abusers against the desperate pleading from parents. They did not want to be called racist. They did not want to upset community relations. It was everywhere,” he said.

“The police leadership responsible shouldn’t just lose their jobs. They should be prosecuted and thrown in prison, along with any public official who knew about these crimes and deliberately concealed them. I would rather be called a racist than enable or allow rape. Every single time. I know that the vast majority of decent British people agree, so how has this been allowed to fester away for so very long? It must change.”

Header image: Men jailed in 2019 for sex offences against Fiona Goddard (West Yorkshire Police).

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