The Grooming Gang Cover Up

In Britain from as early as 1916 police officers, social workers, teachers, doctors, academics, councillors and journalists repeatedly recorded the pattern (the historical evidence is cited throughout the book).

For decades the reaction of the Establishment was denial of the facts, dismissal of the scale of the criminality, and political suppression of those who spoke out. Intimidation and collusion by an army of state-funded employees ensured that the big picture could not be revealed. Reports were buried, investigations stalled, and parents who tried to protect their daughters were ignored or even treated worse than the criminals.

When the existence of the gangs became impossible to ignore after 2011, the response of the Establishment was a refusal to recognise the pattern nationally and a refusal to recognise a culture of rape. From 2015 to 2025, as trials progressed across the country, the Establishment orchestrated a deliberate cover-up involving politicians, the judiciary, and the media.

The book lists dozens and dozens of towns across the country where, in the past twenty years, over 500 of the men in these gangs have been jailed. Drawing on court records, official inquiries, internal documents and contemporary reporting, the cover-up was not a series of isolated mistakes but a sustained attempt by those with power to leave vulnerable girls as prey for the predators. It argues that the Establishment knowingly imported and shielded the predators and this was why the public has been kept in the dark for so long.

Essential reading for anyone seeking an objective account of the most serious child-protection scandal in British history. It’s unlikely that there will ever be a more thorough account of this scandal and the cover-up.