Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has pledged there will be “no hiding place” for those who preyed on vulnerable children — or for anyone who helped cover up their crimes — as she prepares to launch a national statutory inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.
Speaking to GB News, Mahmood said the long-awaited inquiry would be “robust, rigorous, and never watered down on my watch,” promising that it would focus squarely on the “predatory monsters” responsible for the abuse. She confirmed the inquiry would also examine the ethnicity and religion of the offenders — a demand long pushed by victims and campaigners.
Mahmood said she understood the frustration over the slow progress of the inquiry but stressed the importance of appointing the right chair to lead it. “We must get this right,” she said, after a week of turmoil that saw four victims advising the inquiry resign and one of two proposed chairs withdraw.
In her first major comments on the issue since replacing Yvette Cooper, Mahmood wrote that the inquiry would “expose the truth” and hold both abusers and enablers to account. “A moment of reckoning will come,” she said.
Mahmood paid tribute to GB News for giving victims a voice when others ignored them, saying it was “to the state’s eternal discredit” that officials had failed to act for so long. She condemned the perpetrators as “evil child rapists” and said Baroness Casey’s report had revealed “disproportionate numbers of men from Asian backgrounds” among the suspects of group-based child sexual exploitation.
“The victims were failed at every level — not believed, dismissed, and in some cases even treated as suspects,” Mahmood said. “This inquiry must uncover how that happened and root out state failure wherever it lies — in councils, government, or the police.”
Mahmood reiterated that victims would remain at the heart of the process, saying the door would remain open to those who had stepped away from the advisory group. “Even if they don’t return,” she said, “I owe it to them, and to the country, to answer the concerns they’ve raised.”
If what she said was true i’d like to know why trans & other groups which have already had their investigations are attempted to be included in what is supposed to be a specifically focused investigation into pakistani muslim child rape of white girls. Doing that will water it down as yet another rape victim leaves the panel as did the lead lady as the investigation begins to fall apart. Labour is up to their necks in the original cover up & its in their interest to bury this investigation. Meanwhile Tommy is the enemy never mind the girls
Beyond belief.
Now let’s see “action match rhetoric”, newly minted Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. Are you English or British?
Shabana Mahmood is Muslim. She comes from a Pakistani heritage and has been Chair of the Labour Muslim Network, advocating for Muslim communities in the UK.
She is an ardent socialist.
She is single and has no children.
You can’t make up that shit.
You can make that shit up, they do every day and expect us to beleive it, they will get one hell of a shock one day.
Starmer must be worried, not.