"The Rape Gang Inquiry Report" släppt 16/6-26 orsakar internationella rubriker

“The first assault happened shortly after my eighth birthday. On this occasion, he asked
me to help him put up a shelf. So went into a back room, and he closed the door behind
us. He had closed the door before, although closed doors made me feel uncomfortable and
trapped. There were nails in a small box, and he asked me to pass them to him. When I
went to pass them to him, he came on top of me and put his hands all over me. I do not
remember him saying anything at first.

I froze and could not move. I remember being very scared. I also remember being terrified that I would get into trouble. He told me that if I told anyone, I would be taken away. I was terrified of going home afterwards.” “This was the starting point of years of abuse, rape and torture. This man was the first
person who had harmed me in this way. He then progressed to trafficking me to other
men, predominantly Asian, outside the local area. After this, I began being collected
either by taxi or by men who would pick me up personally.”

“These collections often took place after school, on church nights when I was supposed to
be attending church, and sometimes at weekends.”

“I was also put in situations where I was made to participate in harmful acts involving
other children. This was used to confuse boundaries and to make what was happening
feel ‘normal,’ while also creating secrecy and fear about speaking out.”

“The man was described to me as someone who ‘adored’ me and would marry me. I was
told this was ‘God’s plan’ and that I would need to ‘convert’ to Islam. This was presented
as love and destiny, but it functioned as manipulation and control.”

“Another upstairs room was known to me as a punishment room. I describe it this way
because it was the room where girls were taken if they were said to have done something
wrong. Inside that room, I remember crate-like enclosures similar in appearance to dog
crates. Some were positioned on the floor and others above. I also recall there being
various items in that room which were used to hurt or punish people. Entering that room
was frightening, and it was understood that being taken there meant serious punishment.
I do not recall people always explaining why punishments were happening.”

“I remember one of the worst punishments I ever witnessed involved another girl who
was accused of reporting one of the men to the police. At that time, I had answered back,
and Char had stood up for me. She was slapped, and both of us were taken upstairs. We
were in the punishment room when another girl was brought in. The men stated that she
had reported one of them to the police and needed to be taught a lesson. I then witnessed
an iron being used on the girl’s back while it was hot. I remember seeing severe burns
and skin damage to her back. This memory has remained deeply traumatic to me.”

“My recollection is that the girl later died. I remember seeing her being strangled
afterwards in that room. I recall there being several men present, approximately four in
total. I was terrified.”

“At one point, both ‘Char’ and I were pregnant at the same time. All of these pregnancies
ended in miscarriage. I was with ‘Char’ when she experienced a miscarriage. At the time,
neither of us properly understood what was happening. I thought she was dying. Seeing
what happened to ‘Char’ later helped me understand what was happening when I
miscarried. I have experienced multiple miscarriages in my life.”

“When ‘Char’ stopped being brought to the house, other girls were brought instead. I
asked one of the men where she was. After I asked about her, I was placed in the
punishment room. One of the men told me that she would never be coming back. They laughed and said they had killed her and that I would never see her again. However, one of the men also said he wanted to take her away to Pakistan.”

“He put me into a van with seven other girls in a crate and two boys, drove us out into
the middle of nowhere and took us all out, lined us up and told us the rules, what we
will be doing. Four of the girls were taken from abroad to be sold here. They didn’t speak
English.”

“One of them talked back to the guy who was going to buy them and he snapped and
stabbed her over and over and beat her. Then he set her on fire and made us all watch.
That's what changed me. That's why I tried to jump out of the window. Towards the end
I had to dig my own grave. There was one man I remember distinctly.”

“I recall one occasion where he hung me upside down by my feet and whipped me. He
then urinated on me. I also remember him forcing acts upon me and pouring substances
over me while laughing, as though he found it amusing. His behaviour appeared sadistic
and degrading.”

“The house resembled other houses I had previously seen where girls were present. I
remember seeing a very young girl, approximately five or six years old, tied up near the
kitchen area. I could also hear other girls elsewhere in the property.”

“The man I knew as ‘Raz’ appeared to enjoy watching another man rape me. During the
assault, I screamed at him to help me. I recall that he eventually told the other man to
stop and instructed him to leave the room. However, once the other man left, ‘Raz’ then
raped me himself.”

“I remember him saying that the night was ‘special,’ that he was celebrating something,
and that I had been “purchased” for the night as a reward for his associates. Over the
course of the night, numerous men assaulted me. I cannot remember how many there
were. I remember ‘Raz’ sitting in the corner watching while the abuse took place.”

“At some point during the night, I was forced to take additional tablets or substances. I
became extremely disoriented, dizzy, nauseous, and unable to move properly. I remember
the room spinning and seeing double. I felt physically heavy, as though I could not
control my body. I vomited over myself at one stage because I was choking, but the abuse
continued regardless.”

“I remember witnessing severe abuse directed towards the baby while the mother was
forced to watch. I recall seeing cigarettes being put onto the baby. The woman was white,
the baby was of mixed heritage. These men then killed the baby. The incident caused me
extreme distress and remains one of the most traumatic memories I carry. At the time, I
felt emotionally overwhelmed and psychologically broken by what I witnessed.”

“I experienced ongoing nightmares, flashbacks, dissociation, shame, fear, and emotional
numbness. There were periods where I blocked out significant parts of what had
happened in order to cope and survive. I also experienced repeated situations where I felt
disbelieved, dismissed, or treated as though I was inventing events, which had a deeply
damaging effect on my confidence and mental well-being.”

“A significant part of my healing has come from finally being listened to, believed, and
validated. Being heard has helped me begin to understand that what happened to me was
not my fault. Although I still experience the effects of trauma and some symptoms
remain, I now experience fewer nightmares and flashbacks and feel more able to speak
openly about what happened. I also feel emotionally lighter than I have for many years
because I no longer feel completely silenced or alone with these experiences.”

“There were always white girls coming in and out, some even younger than me. Some
girls dealt drugs for the men, and many of those girls still hang around with the same
perpetrators now, which makes me very sad.”

“We were just in and out of all these party houses – drugs, men, doing whatever they
wanted. The lads would pick us up from school. We raised concerns at the time because
we all went to the sexual health clinic, so there are records from that. Even the Chief
Inspector of Redacted Police was aware.”

“I bought a house in 2002 and noticed my abuser hanging around outside of my house in
a taxi from the latter part of 2002 to the early part of 2003. After I started having serious
problems with my abuser early in 2003, I made numerous reports about him to the police
in 2003, including about him non-stop stalking me, abducting me, violently attacking me
almost every day for hours on end, breaking my nose and other bones etc, non-stop
raping me, non-stop falsely imprisoning me and him constantly threatening to kill me
and my 5y old niece. He claimed to be the son of the chief of police of Baghdad and he
had two passports with two different names.”

“The abuser carried a gun, issued threats of violence, death and suicide, used alcohol,
and isolated me almost entirely from society for approximately five years, except for
education. Even my schooling was tightly controlled through pick-ups, drop-offs,
intimidation of teachers and acts of violence towards others.”

“When my daughter was 15 years old, police came to our door and told us she had been
raped by four Asian males. They were Pakistani men.”

“We rushed to her. She was in a terrible state and could barely walk. She had been plied
with a large amount of alcohol. She was raped and had curry powder thrown over her.
This took place at a hotel during Eid.”

“My daughter’s perpetrators were charged, and the case was prepared for trial. On the
day of the trial, we were told the case had been dropped. We were told only that the
perpetrator had a very good solicitor. No written explanation was ever provided.”

“It’s hard for my dad to put into words how much this affected him, but I know it
changed him deeply. It changed all of us. Even though we’ve tried to move forward and
rebuild our lives, nothing has ever really been the same since.”

“When I was 15 they trafficked me to Birmingham. I walked into the bathroom in
the flat and there was a dead girl in the bath.”

“I was told by [female gang member] to gain more weight, she said Somali men
like big women, I needed to eat more and was trying to feed me.”

“I went into the flat expecting a house party. Instead I was met with a cream flat
that smelled very nice, very calm environment. Pictures of children, a child, a
little girl on the wall, and six Somali men in the lounge sitting around a coffee
table chewing something.”

“I remember closing my eyes and then every now and again I’d peep and all I can
remember is just seeing his face, like, you know, when someone’s, like, really, like,
trying to force, like, force it in. And then after he did it, I just remember being in
so much pain and bleeding loads. I was like really, really bleeding.”

“We were given absinthe and vodka and, like, a soft drink to mix with. Like,
literally one of the strongest alcohols was given to us, and by no mistake. It was
to exploit us in some of the horrendous ways possible that a child could be.”

“I grew up in a middle class house with two parents that had been married for a
considerable time, and I think that’s quite important because most of the time the
idea is that grooming gang victims are in care or they’re runaways or they’re
from generally lower class backgrounds, and I say this to just defeat the
presumption that it’s only a vulnerable or stereotypically vulnerable girl that can
be groomed, because the perpetrators are insidious and they’ll target anyone, they
will find weakness or vulnerability anywhere.”

“It happened in summer 2017. I was about 14 when I first met the second group of
perpetrators. I met them through another friend who was being actively groomed
by them, like, very severely. The first time we met them was in a park, which is
now a massive hot spot for child sexual exploitation. It’s happened to hundreds of
girls there now.”

“They said they were going to attack [my friend’s] house and she had two little
siblings and her mum was quite vulnerable as well. So for her it was a massive
thing, oh my God, I’ve got to go because this is going to happen if I don’t. And it’s
the type of thing that, well, a child would believe, but it’s probably something
they would have done. They were absolutely insane and they were known for
violence against women.”

“One of the assaults that actually happened to my friend, she was in that house
and she was forced into it by, a 24-year-old woman who said, go in the room
with him and have sex with him now. Go and fucking do it. And I remember her
scream so loudly, come running back in half-dressed and saying that she was
bleeding and in pain.”

“The worst people that exist in this situation, apart from the perpetrators of that
horrendous abuse, are the people that sat in those positions within those
authorities that had every opportunity to do something about it and chose not to.
And when you do that over several decades, then it results in situations like this.
And that's how that has thrived. And that is how that culture has, it’s how it was
born, it’s how it’s thrived, it’s how it's surviving, and it’s how it will continue.”

“It started when I was 13, [I was raped by] probably about six, seven hundred
different men over the three years.”

“It wasn’t just rape. It was violence as well. I’ve had a gun held to my head. I’ve
been beaten so that I’m literally covered, head to toe in bruises. That was when I
was spiked, when I was drugged. I’ve had a knife at my throat because he wanted
me to ‘sort out’ 10, 15 cars full of men. I’d get kidnapped. I don’t think people
realise, I think they think it’s rape, but it was torture as well. I’d be kidnapped
and I’d be locked in a room. And I’d be beaten. I’d be told if I don’t do this, I’m
not going to go home. So it was a lot more than just rape.”

“I was beaten, black and blue, raped. Not only sexually raped with their body
parts themselves, but with objects as well. There was an incident – I was taken to
hospital. It’s not even in my medical records. I was taken to A&E because my
vagina was split open from a glass bottle.”

Inquiry panellist: “How many different men do you think raped you over that
period when you were 16?”
Rape gang survivor: “About 100.”
Panellist: “When you were 16 years old?”
Survivor: “Yeah.”

Rape gang survivor: “It was just getting like more and more. Non-stop phone
calls. Everyone knew who I was. I couldn’t walk down the street without cars
pulling up and just saying, ‘get in now.’”
Inquiry panellist: “And what would happen when you'd get into a car?”
Survivor: “They’d just take us off to a house or wherever and that’s when all the
bad stuff would happen.”
Panellist: “They’d rape you?”
Survivor: “Yeah. They wouldn’t take no for an answer. It was on a daily basis. It
was like, you’d be in one car, and then you’d get a phone call, ‘you’d better come
and meet me now.’ So you’d get out of that one car, you’d be in the next car, the
next car, so it was about ten in one night.”

“The taxis would drop a girl off, they’d go in the shop, that taxi would leave, clear
the job, then another taxi would pull up. Girls are half drunk, they’re just getting
in a taxi thinking it’s the same one and then they’re being took to places to get
raped. And there’s a chat, there was a group chat for all the drivers, so they were
all communicating with each other. Mainly Muslim taxi drivers.”

“I was actually married to an Asian guy and fully converted. Through the imam.
The imam came to my house. I was fully converted.”

“I heard [the police officer’s] radio go and I heard them say that they was taking
[my daughter] to Mohammed’s brother’s address. I begged them not to take her
there. I was like, they’re the people that are doing this to her. You cannot take her
there. They’re gonna kill her. Because I did believe they was going to. And they
didn’t listen to me. They did take her there. And like I said, she was abused there
by them, by Mohammed.”

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

Father of rape gang survivor: “She’d already been raped at this point by a gang,
and most of her gang members went to [her] school.”[/b]

“We had expected to be taken seriously by the police. We believed the law was there to
protect us. It was deeply shocking to discover that vital evidence had been deleted from
the phone we had handed over. This was Redacted Police.”

“I was (then) grabbed by a tall, muscly man wearing a pair of glasses. He shoved me
down onto the floor and ripped off my clothes. I completely froze in fear whilst he raped
me. I couldn’t fight him off as he was so much bigger than me. He finished what he was
doing and walked off.”

“Before I even had a chance to take in what had just happened another man walked in.
He held my shoulders to the floor whilst he put his penis inside of me. I was raped by the
same four men continuously over a two day period. It felt like an eternity. They would
make us shower and watched whilst we did so. I was so confused at the time to why they
did this?”

“Following these events, I was prescribed sleeping medication, which was ineffective. I
was also prescribed medication for bipolar disorder; however, this did not improve my
condition. At no point was I offered consistent or appropriate emotional or psychological
support. My foster carer arranged for me to attend art therapy sessions, but I did not feel
that these were beneficial.”

“[Rape gang member] played a confusing dual role: he arranged girls for the men
but also acted as a protector. He bought me phones, drinks, and made me feel
special. I trusted him. Later that night, after [rape gang member] attacked me,
[rape gang member] found me, bought me food, and took me home. I passed out
and woke to him rubbing his penis on my lips.”

“On one occasion I went there with [my friend]. We were given bottles of red
wine. After being forced to have sex with between 15 and 20 men, [my friend]
became violently ill from the alcohol. I took her home to avoid her parents seeing
the state she was in. My own parents called the police but they were not
interested in pursuing what had happened.”

“When the restaurant closed, he took me to where the tables were stored and we
had sex. Immediately afterwards, all the restaurant workers entered the area.
[Rape gang member] held me down while they each had sex with me, laughing
during the assault. Later, in the car, he insulted me and called me derogatory
names, blaming me for what he had forced me into.”

“On one occasion I woke to find [rape gang member] and [rape gang member]
both having sex with me. Drinking became my way of coping. At school I was
mocked and humiliated by peers. I would cry privately but pretended at school
that I found it funny, even making crude jokes to fit in. Even my friends believed
I was consenting.”

“This was accommodation provided to [rape gang member] as temporary
accommodation as he told the council he was homeless. This flat was used to take
girls for sex. We spent many nights at this flat, drinking alcohol, and playing a
game called spin the bottle. I now believe that the men manipulated the game so
that it always landed on me. I would often end up very drunk and naked. At the
end of the night, the other girls would be taken home, but I would be kept back
and subjected to sexual acts by the men. Around 5 a.m., I would be allowed home
and would sneak into the house before my parents woke up.”

“There was a Bangladeshi man who I had two children with who was physically
violent and, yeah, knocked my tooth out, you know, stamped on my head, lots of
different things. I managed to get away from him because I think he threatened to
burn my house down.”

“It was almost like they were just looking for girls to bring to this wedding
celebration after everyone had gone home.”

“I heard lots of stories from Western women where their children had been
kidnapped and they’d never see them again. Western women that had been
married, gone to [the Middle East], their children had been taken.”

“It was all of the white girls in every home that I went to. And I mean, I’ve seen
girls locked ... I remember a man opening the back of a van and I saw maybe 15,
20 girls locked in dog cages. Looked like they’re on drugs.”

“But at the age of, I think I was 16, 17, they said to me at the sexual health clinic,
and I was checked out, I was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries. And they said
the chances of me ever having a child were very, very, very slim. Because of what
I’ve been through. They said because of the chlamydia, because of the state of my
ovaries, and because of the pelvic inflammatory disease, I had a very bad
environment in there, basically, that that wouldn’t probably hold a child.”

“[I feel] sick knowing that it’s still going on. That nobody’s wanting to do
anything about it even now in 2026. We’re still having this conversation. We’re
still trying to get people to talk about it.”


[b]“They liked to take my passport and my documents and ID and they’d do
insurance claims for car accidents through my name that I’d been in. I’d done
medicals where I’d have to walk in and claim that I had a sore neck and they
would get the money for it.”

“I got beatings all the time whilst I was in [the children’s home], lots and lots of
beatings because I was telling the police. I was beaten to the point where I got an
aneurysm, my hair fell out. If it wasn’t me, it was someone else.”

“I was taken into a bathroom by the girl who had brought me there and told to
shave. She then told me that we were being sold to the men for sex. I had not
known this beforehand. I did not want to participate, but I was frightened,
trapped, and complied out of fear. I cannot describe in detail what happened in
the bedroom. I was sexually exploited and abused by an adult man. Afterwards,
we were made to sleep in a small child’s bed belonging to a toddler.”

“I disclosed directly to staff at [the children’s home] what
was happening to me, including the sexual exploitation, the repeated trips to flats,
the involvement of adult men, the exchange of money, and the reasons for my
rapid and dangerous weight loss. I explained that I was frightened and felt
trapped. I was told words to the effect that this did not constitute trafficking, that
I was over 16, and that what was happening was a matter of ‘choice.’ Police were
not contacted at that stage, and no immediate protective action was taken.”

“So [rape gang member] is like, do you want to kiss me? And I’m like, no, not
really. He’s like, right, okay, we can get it on. And I was like, no. I said, I’m on
my period. That was the first thing that came to mind, I wasn’t. But that was my
first excuse. He’s like, oh, it’s okay, it doesn’t matter. So I was like, no, no, no,
pushing him away. And he pulled my legs forward so that I was almost laid, like
slouched. And he pushed me back. And he pulled my pants down, got on top of
me and raped me. And I was saying no, I was kicking at the same time. I was 12
years old. This guy, just so I can say this clearly, was taken to trial and caught.
He was put on a retrial and he walked away. He’s now walking the streets.”
“They would toot the horn of the car and then a child would be taken to the
front door [by a staff member of the children’s home].”

Inquiry panellist: “Were there any other objects that they raped you with?”

Rape gang survivor: “Coca-Cola bottles. Keys, for some reason. Somebody tried
to put a baseball bat up there.”

Panellist: “Do you think they were doing these things for sexual gratification?”

Survivor: “It’s about harm. They don’t care. They don’t care about you. They
usually try doing these things after they’ve done the sexual bit that they wanted
to do. Once they’ve finished, that’s it. They can do what they want to you. That’s
how it seemed.”

“I remember the first time I was taken into the sexual health clinic by my social
worker. She walked me in there and it turned out that I had chlamydia in my
throat and vagina. And I’d also got gonorrhoea at that time. At the same time,
they also diagnosed me with genital warts. And then a few months later, I was
taken back again. I was diagnosed with chlamydia again, gonorrhoea again, but
this time it was also a pelvic inflammatory disease. Never once did any nurse or
doctor question any of that.”