Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe has published a 219-page independent report claiming at least 250,000 young British girls have been subjected to rape, trafficking, torture and sexual exploitation by organised grooming gangs since the 1950s, describing the scandal as “one of the most horrendous failures in the history of the country.”
The Rape Gang Inquiry Report, funded by more than 20,000 public donations and compiled from survivor testimonies, whistleblowers and expert evidence, was published on Tuesday and covers coordinated networks operating in at least 149 local authority districts — nearly 40 per cent of the UK.
In a video posted to X alongside the report, Lowe said: “The mass rape of vulnerable working class white girls by gangs of primarily Pakistani Muslim men is pure unfettered evil. Our report outlines in great detail what has happened, why it happened and what we need to do to stop it from happening again. This is an important day.”
The report states: “It has been established that organised gangs, chiefly of Pakistani heritage, have not only groomed, raped, and tortured thousands of women and girls across Britain, but have also trafficked such victims overseas, particularly to Pakistan and other countries. The intent by perpetrators was to exert near-total control, prevent disclosure of the abuse, obstruct homegrown investigations, and continue inflicting abuse in environments with weaker safeguards.”
The 250,000 figure is described in the report as a “bare minimum,” extrapolated from the 1,400 victims identified in Rotherham alone between 1997 and 2013 by Professor Alexis Jay’s landmark 2014 inquiry, and applied across similar documented patterns in Telford, Rochdale, Oxford, Oldham and Bradford. The report acknowledges the scale of under-reporting that makes precise totals impossible to establish, though it draws on court records, Freedom of Information requests, parliamentary evidence and prior official inquiries. UK Fact Check, which reviewed the document, confirmed key institutional facts including the existence of a statutory independent inquiry into grooming gangs chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield, the Metropolitan Police’s review of 9,000 child sexual exploitation cases, and the National Crime Agency’s Operation Beaconport, while noting that some headline statistical claims about perpetrator ethnicity are disputed by reputable secondary commentary due to dataset selection issues.
The report draws on findings from multiple official inquiries that have confirmed police, councils, social services, the Crown Prosecution Service and other institutions repeatedly failed victims, often due to fears of being accused of racism or of damaging community relations. According to GB News, the report calls for mandatory recording of ethno-religious patterns in child sexual exploitation cases, harsher sentencing, the prioritisation of deportations of foreign national convicts, accountability from named officials, new targeted legislation for gang-based child sexual exploitation, and the release of full victim testimonies. It also calls for a national compensation scheme that goes further than the existing Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
Neither Prime Minister Keir Starmer nor senior government officials had issued any public response to the report at the time of publication, according to the European Conservative.
