The full extent of Britain’s grooming gangs scandal has been comprehensively recorded for the first time, exposing key elements behind the nationwide crisis.
Partnering with researchers from Crime Spotlight to produce the first full national dossier of the grooming gangs scandal, GB News has uncovered thousands of miles of national trafficking networks.
The networking mapping demonstrates that this is a truly nationwide crisis, with dozens of reports of children being trafficked for abuse to towns and cities across the country.
Grassroots researchers from Crime Spotlight have compiled reports of trafficking heard in courtrooms and survivor testimonies.
The mapping demonstrates that this is a truly nationwide crisis
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Some trafficking reports have been made direct to GB News by sources directly involved in them, including survivors and those tasked with supporting them.
In one case, jailed abuser Arshid Hussain dragged a survivor in the boot of his car and drove to London from Rotherham where she was used to pay off his debts to three men.
London was also the destination for several other trafficking reports, raising questions for City Hall after the mayor refused requests for a London inquiry into the abuse gangs.
After years of research, the archive reveals that there have been zero deportations of grooming gang abusers identified since 2011.
The dossier also reaffirms that over 50 different towns and cities have experienced abuse gang crimes, with just 500 convictions since 2007. The reports stretch from Plymouth, Bristol and Banbury up to the north east and north west.
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Dozens of reports of children were trafficked for abuse to towns and cities across the country
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It highlights the intense trafficking and abuse networks in and around Bradford, one of the key areas that has resisted calls for further inquiries into the grooming gangs scandal.
Shadow Justice Minister Robert Jenrick said: "This crucial research helps to uncover the full horror of the rape gangs. It shows the sheer scale of the rape gangs and just how evil their crimes were.
"Politicians are either supportive of a full national inquiry, with the power to get answers and accountability for the victims, or they are part of the cover up.
"Every single individual involved in these gangs must be prosecuted and, if they are foreign nationals, also deported. No ifs, no buts."
The report comes as the government prepares to release a “rapid audit” conducted by Baroness Louise Casey to assess the scale of the crisis.
The government originally committed to release the report, which will look at cultural and ethnicity factors, within three months, but it was pushed into May.
Coverage of the grooming gangs crisis has continued well into the year after an intervention from Elon Musk in January sparked a widespread political response.
Musk directed global eyeballs onto the scandal after he read court transcripts posted on X, the site that he owns.
It highlights the intense trafficking and abuse networks in and around Bradford
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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and Reform UK MPs then called for a national inquiry into the abuse gangs scandal after GB News revealed that the government had rejected a request from Oldham Council for a public inquiry into the town’s abuse gangs scandal.
Under significant pressure, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper later announced Casey’s audit, five local inquiries into the gangs, and several funding measures for survivors.
Last month, Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips said the government would adopt a “flexible” approach to the inquiries and bring in “locally-led work” after hearing feedback from local authorities.
The move was widely criticised, with opposition figures accusing Labour of “watering down” their commitment.
Fresh revelations have kept the sandal in the spotlight, with former police officer John Piekos telling GB News last month that he was threatened with arrest in Bradford after he presented evidence of widespread grooming and trafficking.
