MPs must discuss rape gangs’ ethnicity, says whistleblower’s aide
by Tom Witherow, The Times:
A lack of open debate has left a ‘vacuum’ to be filled by Elon Musk, says the former PA to Ann Cryer, who exposed grooming gangs.
A former aide to Ann Cryer, the MP who raised the alarm about grooming gangs in 2002, has said the “vacuum” left by politicians not talking about the attackers’ ethnicity has been filled by Elon Musk.
Mark Taylor, Cryer’s personal assistant between 2001 and 2008, said politicians then and now had failed to grasp the problem.
Cryer’s son, Lord Cryer, also praised his mother’s “bravery” in speaking out, and revealed the threats she had received as recently as five years ago.
Cryer, then the MP for Keighley, West Yorkshire, was approached by seven desperate mothers who said that girls were being groomed at the school gates by British-Pakistani “boyfriends”.
When Cryer, now 85, challenged the police and social services, who refused to intervene, and spoke up nationally, she was branded a racist and shouted down in meetings, and Labour councillors tried to have her ejected from the party.
The police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) only moved to tackle the scandal after a series of damning investigations by Andrew Norfolk in The Times from January 2011.
The Times newspaper front page detailing a conspiracy of silence surrounding UK sex gangs, with most convicted offenders of Pakistani heritage.
Watch: Julie Bindel on the “moral cowardice” that enabled decades of sexual abuse in the UK.
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