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Published : 19 Jun 2026, 01:56 AM
At least 250,000 British girls have been sexually abused allegedly by Pakistani gangs for “decades”, Russian state broadcaster RT says, citing an inquiry report supervised by MP Rupert Lowe of the far-right and anti-immigration Restore Britain party.
Titled “Independent Rape Gang Inquiry Report” and published on Tuesday, the 218-page findings said the suspects were allegedly enabled by police, social workers, and even Prime Minister Keir Starmer to commit “child rape on an industrial scale”.
Other than hundreds of thousands of white British girls, smaller numbers of white boys and Sikh girls were also abused by organised Pakistani “grooming gangs” in 149 districts of the UK, according to RT.
The executive summary says the inquiry was commissioned to examine "the systematic targeting of vulnerable girls, overwhelmingly White British, by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs" in the UK.
Many of the reported included preteen girls, who had been raped hundreds of times, threatened with death, and sodomised by dogs, it said, adding that the crimes took place in “plain sight” of the authorities tasked with their prevention.
Girls as young as 11 were targeted by older men aged between 40 and 60, with many of them “inviting their relatives” to join in the gang rape.
Some of the girls also reported being moved between different groups of offenders in various parts of the country.
Lowe's report argues that the abuses were motivated in part by racial and religious factors, describing it as a pattern of offending committed largely by Pakistani Muslim men against vulnerable white girls.
The report cites previous studies suggesting that around 250,000 women and girls may have been abused since 2000, while arguing that the true figure could be significantly higher because many cases of sexual abuse go unreported.
In cases that resulted in prosecution, “approximately 87% of those convicted bore distinctively Muslim names,” the report states, citing previous studies.
The British MP linked the rapes with immigration, pointing out that 8,593 rape cases were reported in the year 2000, a number that rose to over 70,000 “when the era of large-scale mass immigration into the country commenced under former prime minister tony Blair.”
Meanwhile, asked by The Telegraph whether any “white supremacists” funding Restore Britain had been expelled from the party, Lowe said the newspaper failed to cover the findings of the rape gang inquiry report and resorted to publish “pointless smear pieces”.
Was Starmer linked?
The issue has remained under scrutiny since the publication of the 2014 Jay Report, an independent inquiry which found that authorities in Rotherham had failed to respond adequately to the widespread sexual exploitation of children. Successive governments have since faced criticism from campaigners and opposition politicians over their handling of the issue and the pace of official investigations.
In 2025, Labour MPs voted against a Conservative proposal for a national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. The government later announced a new investigation into the issue earlier this year.
Lowe's report is critical of that inquiry, describing it as a "containment exercise" that focuses on a limited number of areas and does not sufficiently examine the demographic and religious backgrounds of offenders. The report further alleges that members of the Labour Party were involved in efforts to suppress scrutiny of the scandal.
It also claims that at least four Labour councillors and MPs have been convicted of child abuse offences and that some politicians either failed to take effective action against grooming gangs or hindered attempts to tackle the problem.
“Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who as director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, let 13,000 pedophiles off with warning letters instead of prosecuting them,” it reads.
Lowe’s report has not been acknowledged by Labour, the Conservatives, or Reform UK, with the publication facing a “near-total media blackout”.
