#rochdale grooming gang

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Keir Starmer

To begin with, Mr. Starmer should read Dara Horn’s People Who Love Dead Jews as that may explain why it is deeply offensive as well as blatantly hypocritical to attempt to establish oneself as vigilant against antisemitism by invoking the memory of the Holocaust whilst permitting marchers shouting antisemitic slogans to walk through London week after week. Frankly, it does not fill me with confidence as to what the message from this program is intended to be. Will it be yet another iteration of how White People TM are inherently intolerant? A repeat of the 2021 animated film Where is Anne Frank? which ultimately equates the Holocaust with deporting illegal immigrants? Finally, given that Starmer seems a frequent user of the phrase “antisemitism, islamaphobia, and all forms of intolerance” how will this program accurately reflect the Islamic contribution to the Holocaust? Labour can barely bring itself to acknowledge the untold numbers of “grooming gangs” victims, how will they tackle the fact that they violated their own mandate by issuing the White Paper all because the Arabs could not tolerate the idea of Jewish sovereignty, and that at least thousands of Jews were killed as a result? How will they deal with Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini? The SS Handschar Division? High ranking Nazis finding refuge in Arab countries post WWII?

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As with the grooming gangs in northern England when it is politically awkward to prosecute the perpetrators their victims suffer twice. Once when they are attacked and once when they are ignored.

Another 105 civilians from the Christian Mwagaful community, were murdered in Nigeria by Alfonja Jihadi Fulani militias who are ethnic cleansing Nigeria of its Christians in the state of Plateau and elsewhere. The UN and the world is ignoring Islamic Jihad in Nigeria.

This follows the news of 300 deaths during targeted attacks on Christian villages in Plateau State on Christmas Eve.

"40,000 Nigerians have been slaughtered and 3 million displaced. Why no protests?"

There are no protests because the victims are the wrong victims, and the perpetrators are the wrong perpetrators.

A report from Makurdi Diocese’s Foundation for Justice, Development and Peace has revealed there were 119 militant attacks targeting predominantly Christian communities in one state alone in 2023.

Islamists also murdered 414 people and injured, raped or kidnapped almost 100 more in Benue State last year.

The former Muslim President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari is Fulani. He orchestrated the Biafra massacre that resulted in the deaths mostly by starvation of some two million Christian Biafrans, after Biafra attempted to break away from Muslim controlled northern Nigeria.

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PROGRESSIVE CONTEMPT FOR THE WHITE WORKING CLASS

There is a time to be angry. There is a time when it is a sin not to be angry. This is such a time. Some of the Rotherham Rape Gang I have served in the armed forces. I have been a prison chaplain. I have been a minister in one of the roughest parts of Glasgow. I am not naive. Yet I was unable to finish reading the details of the atrocities committed by a mainly Pakistani Muslim rape gang on…

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"There were thousands of victims: 1,400 in Rotherham, 1,000 in Telford, more than 300 in Oxford. It was an industry of sexual violence."

By Brendan O’Neill

It’s the scandal that refuses to die. Despite the best efforts of our spineless elites – who’d rather talk about anything on Earth other than grooming gangs – it keeps creeping back. For all the left’s cheap, libellous cries about how racist it is to talk about these gangs, people keep talking about them. In the face of official indifference to the suffering of thousands of poor and working-class girls at the hands of these groomers and abusers, people have demanded a reckoning. There is a public thirst for truth, and no amount of top-down slander and censure can crush it.

Three days into 2025, grooming gangs are back in the news. As British readers will know, ‘grooming gangs’ is the somewhat euphemistic name given to those marauding bands of men from mostly Pakistani backgrounds who subjected girls of the white working class to horrific abuse. In towns across the UK – Rotherham, Rochdale, Huddersfield, Oldham, Telford, Oxford – gangs of men plied girls with drugs, demeaned them, exploited them, raped them. Conservative MP Robert Jenrick has a point when he says the flat phrase ‘grooming gangs’ seems designed to ‘sanitise depraved crimes’. They’re ‘rape gangs’, he says.

They were. The girls who fell victim to these gangs experienced the most hellish degradation. The men ‘deliver[ed] them to hell’, as one prosecutor put it. In Huddersfield, girls were ‘passed around and raped’. In Manchester, a girl was injected with heroin to make her easier to rape. In Rochdale, a girl called Ruby was raped a hundred times from the age of 12. She had an abortion at 13. There were thousands of victims: 1,400 in Rotherham, 1,000 in Telford, more than 300 in Oxford. It was an industry of sexual violence.

What made these horrors even worse – and in some cases what made them possible – was the calculated indifference of officialdom. Across England, local politicians and cops were initially loath to dig into the gangs, lest they stir up ‘sensitive community issues’. They knew very well that gangs of men from Pakistani backgrounds were preying on white girls from the dirt-poor parts of town, but they held back because they didn’t want to be seen as ‘targeting [a] minority group’. In town after town, ‘race relations’ were elevated above the safety and dignity of working-class girls. Protecting the ideology of multiculturalism was seen as more important than protecting girls from rape. The girls were sacrificed to ideology, their humiliation treated as a small price to pay for upholding the edicts of political correctness.

Now, this outrage is making waves again. It follows Home Office minister Jess Phillips’s rejection of Oldham Council’s request for a government-led inquiry into the ‘grooming gangs’ scourge. The fearless reportage of Charlie Peters at GB News has also helped to drag these sick crimes back into the spotlight. Elon Musk is stirring it up too, cack-handedly, using X to slam Keir Starmer’s government and Britain more broadly for our failures over what he calls this ‘rape genocide’. That our media ‘hid’ these atrocities for so long is awful, he says.

There’s historical erasure at play here. Mr Musk, and others, might have first heard about the ‘grooming gangs’ scandal in 2025, but Brits have been aware of it for years. It was the mainstream media that uncovered it. For years The Times was all over this story. Julie Bindel wrote about it as far back as 2007. spiked has covered it in depth for more than a decade. The idea that we need a rich rabble-rouser in America to pry open our eyes to our nation’s legion crimes and failures is ridiculous. Here’s my question for those feverishly tweeting about these ‘grooming gangs’ they’ve just discovered – where have you been?

This horror hasn’t been ‘hidden’. It’s been the subject of much media scrutiny and righteous public fury. But here’s the curious thing, the worrying thing: while there’s been a great deal of reportage on ‘grooming gangs’, there hasn’t been the reckoning we really need. While there have been numerous local inquiries – all cataloguing the gross failures of officials who showed more concern for communal peace than female safety – still the scandal rarely troubles the broader political conscience. Everyone knows about it, but few dwell on it. In polite society it is the great unmentionable, the atrocity that dare not speak its name. You wring your hands over it, and nothing more. You agree it was bad, and you move on.

It’s not hard to see why a culture of cowardice still clings to this scandal more than any other – it’s because the questions it raises about 21st-century Britain are legion, profound and terrifying. Thousands of girls subjected to vile abuse while officialdom, the police, the left and even many feminists looked the other way because they value communal calm more than working-class life and dignity? No wonder they wish this scandal would go away. No wonder they’re content to acknowledge it but never interrogate it. No wonder they’re more comfortable talking about a Tory MP putting his hand on a middle-class journalist’s knee. They simply lack the psychological and moral resources to reflect on what it says about their rule that thousands of poor and working-class girls were raped right under the nose of their bureacracy.

It isn’t because they think the ‘grooming gangs’ scandal is insignificant that they avoid dwelling on it. On the contrary, it is precisely the mammoth nature of the scandal, the vast and swirling questions it raises, that makes them so allergic to grappling with it. This is without question one of the great outrages of the postwar period. It is the moment the state failed, catastrophically, in its most basic duty: to protect its citizens from harm. It’s the scandal that exposes the sinister self-preserving instincts of the bureaucratic elites, who we now know will do anything to protect their ideology and influence, including turning a blind eye to the rape of destitute girls. They shout ‘racist!’ at anyone who talks about ‘grooming gangs’ because they know our pesky questions threaten to unravel their moral pretensions and shatter their political authority. They know what’s at stake.

For nothing exposes the dangerous aloofness of Britain’s new ruling class as much as the ‘grooming’ scandal does. This scandal speaks to their classism, cowardice and deep distrust of us, the public. Every step of the way in this horror, they were guided by their fear of the masses, their dread of the plebs. From their panic about stirring up ‘Islamophobia’ to their fear of fuelling the ‘far right’, they confirmed, again and again, their view of everyday Brits as a mob-in-waiting, as so bigoted and volatile that we cannot be trusted with the truth about these gangs, or anything else. They failed working-class girls and then demeaned the whole public. They treated poor girls as trash and then trashed the right of everyone else to protest against it. This scandal is far from over. It has only just begun.

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15-year-old Rochdale grooming gang victim who died after being injected with heroin: How Victoria Agoglia was repeatedly ignored despite telling police she was being abused, raped and plied with drugs by predatory pedophiles

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Many issues with your response:

1) the grooming gangs do, in fact, encompass the entire Pakistani community. Even the Pakis who didn’t individually rape were involved in the protection and coverup of those who did. There are no Pakistanis who were not involved, there are none who did not fully endorse it. You can prove me wrong simply by finding one Paki speaking out against it, but you can’t because it doesn’t exist. You’re probably going to say some retarded shit like “how is that different from collectively blaming White people for xyz racism” and the answer is that it’s different because the situation is different. When I say “the entire Pakistani community” that’s not some exaggeration or generalization, it is a factual statement of the status of ALL of them. 83% of those prosecuted for Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation between 1997 and 2017 are Muslim. 84% are asian (in the UK sense) and 8% are black, only 7% are White. The UK as a whole is 82% White. These statistics are staggering, it goes beyond per capita. This community raped with the consent, knowledge, and endorsement of the UK government and police. It was officially endorsed.

2) in many ways, we do limit the amount of cars made. To be more specific, we strictly enforce what type of car is made. Cars as a whole may be built more, but specific types of cars are not. The amount of cars made without seatbelts or airbags was reduced down to zero, the amount of used cars on the road was greatly reduced by the Cash For Clunkers program (Obama did that by the way, so you should like it). The equivalent would be if we had unlimited mass migration but only of White people, with strict immigration restrictions against subhuman brown cockroach vermin like Pakis or Indians. Did you know cars also have immigration restrictions? If you buy a foreign car outside the country which doesn’t comply with United States EPA regulations, there is a 25 year ban before you can bring it into the country. If I went to Germany right now and bought e.g. a 2010 VW Beetle, I would not be allowed to bring it home to the United States. I would need to buy a 2010 VW Beetle specifically manufactured for US dealerships. The equivalent to that would be if Muslims were allowed in the west, but only if they were extremely orientalist White people who arrived at Biblical unitarianism and decided to convert of their own volition.

3) Rotherham is merely the case I first heard of, and it struck such a chord with me. It was a formative experience to learn of it. Rotherham is to me as the Japanese dislike spicy food lady is to you. I cannot forget Rotherham ever, so I constantly bring it up. But Rotherham is NOT the only one. It’s not one little anecdote. Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford, Halifax, Aylesbury, Banbury, Bristol, Derby, Huddersfield, Manchester, Newcastle, Peterborough, Telford, West Yorkshire, all are places with the same story. Mass rape, same perpetrators, same victims, full knowledge of police and government, light sentencing if any for the perpetrators, punishment for natives who speak out, same exact fucking story. That’s just in one tiny little island country. This is what I mean when I say “the purpose is to spread Rotherhams across the globe.” At this stage it's pretty safe to say that brown pedophiles are some of the most effective footsoldiers of the new regime, and that child rape is actually a deliberate tool of social engineering.

4) Your human freedom point is nonsensical. To put it in a cutesy metaphor (and I know you love those): your rights to have your hand in a fist end where my rights to have a face begin. What human freedom was given to the girls in Rotherham? What human freedom was given to Natalie Shotter? Where was the human freedom in Rochdale, Oxford, Halifax, Aylesbury, Banbury, Bristol, Derby, Huddersfield, Manchester, Newcastle, Peterborough, Telford, or West Yorkshire? You’re in the USA. What human freedom was given to Laken Riley? What human freedom was given to Reagan Tokes? What human freedom was given to the Central Park five victims? What human freedom was given to Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Peña (she was Hispanic, you can at least mourn her)? Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. You believe that the White victims of these crimes are non-human, or at least subhuman, because they are middle class and liberal and insufficiently radical, so their brutalization is “human freedom” while drinking from a separate water fountain is a violation of human dignity. What human freedom was given to those left behind in Rosedale? Do you even know what “Left Behind In Rosedale” means? How about “Race War In High School” or “White Girl Bleed A Lot?” I tell you about these things and you don’t listen. I listen to you, I respond to you, you don’t even know what I’m referring to right now.

5) As is typical in our discussions, I dutifully answer all the little hypotheticals and questions you throw my way while you weasel and dance around everything I ask you. Let me re-ask my questions. You can ignore every other point I raised and just answer this last part: Would you have supported any policies that would have prevented Rotherham before it happened? What policies? If you knew the future, would you support immigration restriction, or is mass widespread sexual abuse a fair price worth paying for unlimited immigration? If yes, why? If no, at what level of bad behavior does immigration restriction become acceptable?

I don't think the policies required to protect children from abuse relate to immigration, and those same policies would be needed in the absence of immigration.

(also enough with the collective responsibility stuff; there are heaps of things that I haven't publicly spoken out about -- only so many hours in a day -- but that hardly means I endorse them).

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Achallenge of describing Britain’s grooming gang scandal for an international audience is convincing the reader that it really happened and is not simply the product of a morbid fantasy.

This is not just because the crimes at its heart—those crimes being the rape and torture of young girls—are so appalling. They are, of course, but appalling crimes happen everywhere, becoming no less evil for their pervasiveness. Nor is it not just because the crimes took place on such a vast scale. In Rotherham alone, in South Yorkshire, there might have been 1,500 victims. It is also because the authorities—police officers, social workers and politicians—failed so miserably and wickedly to prevent them.

In Rotherham, and Rochdale, and Telford, and many, many other places, evil men raped vulnerable girls with impunity while the officials looked the other way (and, in some cases, actively helped). How could this have happened? It is partly because the perpetrators were disproportionately of migrant heritage. A striking number of them were ethnically Pakistani. Most—though not all—of their victims were white girls, which, judging by the vicious comments that have been reported, had a lot to do with anti-white racism. “All white girls are good for is sex,” one rapist reportedly told his victim, “They are just slags.”

Local authorities were uncomfortable about digging into claims of young girls being raped on the grounds of political correctness. In Telford, for example, according to an independent report, authorities feared “complaints of racism”.

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Une affaire qui débute au Royaume-Uni et fait trembler le monde entier. Le scandale des grooming gang revient sur le devant de la scène

Les applications comme Snapchat ont permis à ces gangs de devenir encore plus sophistiqués, ce qui a facilité l’accès aux jeunes filles vulnérables, souvent issues des classes populaires.

Le premier rapport publié en 2014, révélait que 1.400 enfants avaient été abusés à Rotherham. Mais ce n’était que la partie émergée de l’iceberg. D’autres villes comme Rochdale, Telford ou Oldham dévoilent des abus similaires, et des estimations aujourd’hui bien plus élevées.

L’ampleur du désastre :

Depuis une décennie, les chiffres explosent on parle désormais de 250 000 viols.

Le profil des auteurs sont majoritairement d’origine pakistanaise. Mais les institutions n'ont jamais osé le reconnaître, par lâcheté, paralysées par la peur des accusations de racisme ou d’islamophobie. Plutôt que d’agir, elles ont préféré détourner le regard et sacrifier des enfants sur l'autel du multiculturalisme.

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The details of this are horrendous. And obviously it's not just Asian people doing it, it's men in general.

Working class girls have been abandoned by services, parts of society and the gov. This stereotype of slutty council estate chav with fake eyelashes is powerful, and contributes a lot. They're not seen as worthy victims.

Police, services & council need some training on this, on working class stereotypes, it'd be clunky to bolt it on to the mandatory LGBTQ training but their internal class prejudices need challenging - cos some of them, like the police, thought these slutty chavs were asking for it - 'it's just what they do'

It's fucking mad

And of course the left don't want anything to do with it cos they removed and abandoned working class people a long time ago, and the media always bill it as Asians so they hide from the racial element. They're not up for nuance other than the odd tweet. Identarians have no answer cos to them only white men can do anything wrong so this bends their head.

So it's manor from heaven for the far right - who themselves are basically grooming gangs for young men to become fascist and to sexually exploit young women and nonce children ffs - to give it the big un, defend our communities etc

It's just a fucking state. And it's being replicated all over the country.

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'Grooming Gang' Leader Still Living and Working in Rochdale Nearly 10 Years After Deportation Order - Border Hawk

https://borderhawk.news/grooming-gang-leader-still-living-and-working-in-rochdale-nearly-10-years-after-deportation-order/

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RULERS MUST LISTEN TO TEH RULED

If you confine yourself to the mainstream media you will see that what is happening in the UK today is entirely a tale of ‘far right’ yobs causing mayhem. We are given no real context at all. The establishment narrative is that the riots are the product of ‘misinformation’ on social media being used by racist thugs to cause havoc. The carnage and chaos unfolding before our eyes is not just about…

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Rochdale grooming gang ‘used vulnerable young girls as sex slaves’, trial hears

Mohammed Zahid and Roheez Khan are among eight on trial (Picture: Bruce Adams/Daily Mail) Two young girls were groomed to become ‘sex slaves’ for a group of Asian men in Rochdale who preyed on their vulnerabilities, a court has heard. From the age of 13, the girls were expected to have sex with them ‘whenever and wherever’ they wanted, jurors at Manchester Minshull Street Court were told. Rossano…

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Rochdale grooming gang ‘turned vulnerable girls into sex slaves’, court hears

Eight men are accused of sexual offences against the two teenagers between 2001 and 2006. They deny all charges.

The defendants are: Mohammed Zahid, 64, of Station Road, Crumpsall, Manchester; Naheem Akram, 48, of Manley Road, Rochdale; Mohammed Shazad, 43, of Beswicke Royds Street, Rochdale; Nisar Hussain, 43, of Newfield Close, Rochdale; Roheez Khan, 39, of Athole Street, Rochdale; Arfan Khan, 40, of Grouse Street, Rochdale; Mushtaq Ahmed, 66, of Corona Avenue, Oldham; and Kasir Bashir, 50, of Napier Street East, Oldham.

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Plurality of Britons Believe in Cover-up of Muslim Grooming Gangs

A plurality of Britons, including Labour voters, believe that there was a cover-up of the scale of the abuse and failings by local officials in the Muslim child rape grooming gang scandal.

According to a survey of 2,002 British voters conducted by Friderichs Advisory and JL Partners, nearly half of the public, 46 per cent, either tend to or strongly agree with the idea that there was a cover-up of the grooming gang scandal, GB News reports.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the percentage of both supporters of the Conservatives and Nigel Farge’s Reform UK party who believe there was a cover-up was above 50 per cent.

However, in what might be another blow to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s leftist government, the poll found that a plurality of Labour voters also believe there was a cover-up. The poll found that 41 per cent of Labour voters agreed that there was a cover-up, compared to around a fifth of Labour voters who disagreed.

Prime Minister Starmer, whose own role in the scandal from when he served as Britain’s top prosecutor between 2008 and 2013 might come under scrutiny in a full-scale investigation and whose part controlled many of the central grooming locations, controversially ordered members of his party last week to vote down a motion from Tory leader Kemi Badenoch to launch a national public inquiry.

Starmer argued that the government should focus on implementing recommendations of previous reports while castigating those demanding a full inquiry specifically focussed on the mainly Pakistani child rape gangs and the failure of local officials to protect young white girls as being merely a fixation of the “far-right“.

However, pressure has continued to ramp up on Starmer, with multiple Labour MPs breaking rank to demand a national inquiry, including the representatives for grooming hot spots Rochdale and Rotherham. The influential Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has also broken with his party leader to call for a full investigation.

Contrary to Starmer’s dismissal, the poll released by GB News found that nearly two-thirds of Britons think that “those calling for a national inquiry are motivated by getting justice for the victims.”

As to the motivation for such an alleged cover-up, 42 per cent of those surveyed listed corruption as the most likely culprit, while 38 per cent said that it resulted from political correctness.

While there has never been a full national inquiry into the matter, previous localised and broader reports on child sex abuse found numerous instances of local officials ignoring the child rape and trafficking of young white girls by predominantly Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs for fear of appearing racist or stoking ethnic divisions.

The survey found that eight in ten Britons think that government authorities who either covered up or failed to investigate grooming gang allegations should face prosecution.

Meanwhile, two-thirds said that prosecutions of public servants who failed to safeguard young girls should face prison time. As for the grooming gang rapists, the poll found that 47 per cent backed life in prison, while 30 per cent believed that they should face the death penalty. Intriguingly, the two groups most likely to favour the death penalty were Reform UK voters and members of black or other ethnic minorities in the country.

The father of a grooming gang victim said: “Let’s just get on with it and put this to bed for good. People of this country deserve to know what our children are facing and they’re facing it today.”

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In a surprising move, Andy Burnham, the Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, has publicly split with Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, over the call for a national inquiry into grooming gangs. Burnham’s stance is a call for a “limited national inquiry” into historic cases of child sexual exploitation, citing the importance of learning from past reviews conducted at the local level in cities like Manchester, Rochdale, Telford, and Rotherham.

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Le accuse di Musk hanno creato l’impressione che le bande dello stupro, prevalentemente di origine pakistana, a Rochdale e Rotherham fossero state lasciate impunite e i casi insabbiati. Non è così. Ed è qui che occorre fare chiarezza su una serie di vicende avvenute in periodi diversi, senza mettere tutto in un calderone. E soprattutto è importante capire la cronologia, chi operò gli insabbiamenti e quando, e a che punto la verità è saltata fuori. Perché no, non l’ha tirata fuori Elon adesso. Per Rochdale e Rotherham ci sono già stati processi e condanne, tanto che basta che cliccate sui link e scoprirete che se fossero veramente stati insabbiati fino ad oggi non ci sarebbero addirittura le pagine su wikipedia con il dettaglio degli eventi, delle inchieste, dei processi, dei rapporti e delle condanne.

Perché è importante la cronologia? Perché i casi furono sì occultati o investigati male, ma responsabili degli insabbiamenti erano polizia, medici, talvolta membri dell’autorità locale appartenenti agli stessi gruppi familiari degli indagati. Il paradosso dell’accusa di Musk è che fu proprio Keir Starmer, come Direttore della Pubblica Accusa (Dpp) tra il 2008 e il 2013, a scoperchiare il bubbone, rivedere le procedure, riaprire i fascicoli e portare alle prime condanne nel 2012 che diedero avvio a successive inchieste e successivi arresti anche dopo che ebbe lasciato l’incarico. Ad oggi, è il procuratore britannico con la più alta percentuale di condanne per abusi su minori, con circa 6 mila arresti l’anno e una media di condanne del 75%.

Durante il suo mandato, Starmer introdusse una serie di riforme mirate a migliorare la gestione dei casi di abuso su minori. Nel 2013, emanò nuove linee guida che rappresentarono un cambiamento radicale nell’approccio alla giustizia penale, concentrandosi sulla credibilità delle accuse piuttosto che sulla capacità delle vittime di testimoniare. Starmer sfidò miti e stereotipi, dichiarando la fine dell’era della “vittima modello” e promuovendo una comprensione più complessa dei comportamenti delle vittime. Potenziò la formazione dei pubblici ministeri e delle forze dell’ordine, sensibilizzandoli sulle dinamiche di coercizione e manipolazione che spesso impediscono alle vittime di denunciare, specialmente in contesti culturali dove prevalgono concetti di “onore” e “vergogna”. Dopo casi come quello di Rochdale, Starmer ordinò una revisione nazionale sulla gestione dei casi di sfruttamento minorile da parte della Procura della Corona, identificando le lacune sistemiche e implementando misure correttive. Grazie a queste riforme, le accuse di abuso su minori registrarono un aumento significativo, passando da 4 nel 2010-2011 a oltre 7.200 tra il 2011 e il 2017, con un picco durante il suo mandato.

Il lavoro fu svolto accanto a Nazir Afzal, nominato da come Capo Procuratore della Corona per il Nord Ovest dell’Inghilterra, il quale ebbe un ruolo cruciale nel perseguire i crimini, mentre Starmer guidava iniziative per introdurre cambiamenti sistemici nella gestione dei casi. Al tempo, Azfal viveva sotto scorta, a causa delle continue minacce di morte e intimidazione sia da parte della comunità pakistana che da gruppi di estrema destra. In breve, un uomo scomodo tanto alle gang dello stupro quanto alle frange nazionaliste.

Secondo Afzal le maggiori problematiche rilevate durante la gestione con Starmer in merito a come venivano svolte le indagini sulla violenza sui minori da parte della polizia furono l’inadeguatezza delle risposte, mancanza di coordinamento, paura di accuse di razzismo, stereotipi sulle vittime, politiche inefficaci e mancata assistenza.

Che Starmer fu l’uomo che per primo affrontò il problema, cambiò le regole e assicurò delle condanne lo conferma anche Andrew Norfolk, il reporter del Times che per primo pubblicò l’inchiesta giornalistica sulle grooming gangs.