Grooming gang convicted
I saw a tweet from Nazir Afzal:
Restrictions lifted so you can learn about the latest grooming trials in Huddersfield
My interviews will be broadcastThis was not the work of Tommy Robinson & his cohorts, his lot nearly derailed it again
It was the bravery of victims & professionals
— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) October 19, 2018
So I read the BBC report.
Twenty men have been found guilty of being part of a grooming gang that raped and abused girls as young as 11 in Huddersfield.
The men were convicted of more than 120 offences against 15 girls.
Victims were plied with drink and drugs and then “used and abused at will” in a seven-year “campaign of rape and abuse” between 2004 and 2011.
As if girls are just insentient objects there for the use of men.
During the three trials, jurors heard how the men – who are all British Asians mainly of Pakistani heritage – preyed on young, vulnerable girls, one of whom was described as having the mental age of a seven-year-old.
The men, all from Yorkshire, went by nicknames including “Dracula” – which Nahman Mohammed was known as.
Mohammed Imran Ibrar was known as “Bully”, Abdul Rehman was nicknamed “Beastie”, while Nasarat Hussain was known as “Nurse”.
All a joke to them, I guess.
In May, the former leader of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson was arrested for reporting on the case live on Facebook during the second of the trials.
Analysis by Mark Easton:
Rotherham, Oxford, Rochdale, Derby, Banbury, Telford, Peterborough, Aylesbury, Bristol, Halifax, Keighley, Newcastle… now Huddersfield. The list seems endless… and there will almost certainly be more.
The sexual abuse of vulnerable children in English towns by groups of men, often from immigrant communities, is an incarnation of a wider scandal that is dominating our news and overwhelming our police and our courts.
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Victims and their families said they repeatedly told West Yorkshire Police what was happening but no arrests were made until years later.
Which is odd because West Yorkshire Police recently found time to caution Graham Linehan for saying Unapproved Things about “gender” on Twitter. Graham Linehan lives in Norfolk – a very long way away from West Yorkshire. Time to police what distant people say about gender on Twitter, but not time to police what men do to girls under their noses.
But of course, even mentioning the existence of this particular pattern of crime is ‘playing into the hands’ of anti-immigrant racists. I recall that in at least one of the earlier scandals, the police held back to avoid offending ‘community standards.’
Ever thus. If you tried to warn the world against the rise of Soviet terror back in the 20s, you’d inevitably end up next to loathsome White Russian anti-semites and rising fascists.