Pakistani rape gangs of thousands of men you say? Funny that because the reports show only 165 known perpetrators for the entire Asian ethnicity category.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-audit-on-group-based-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse/national-audit-on-group-based-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse-accessible#chapter-4-the-nature-and-characteristics-of-group-based-child-sexual-exploitation
*The VKPP Report for 2023[footnote 131] notes that ethnicity was recorded for only 31% of perpetrators, but goes on to record the ethnicity breakdown (88% ‘White’, 5% as ‘Asian’, 3% as ‘Black’, 2% as ‘Mixed’ and 1% as ‘Chinese or other’) and compare it with Census ethnic distribution in the general population.
In the November 2024 CSE Taskforce COCAD report, self-defined ethnicity data was published for all ‘contact’ group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse crimes in 2023 where two or more suspects had been identified (including offending in family, institutional and other settings). It also outlined an ethnicity profile for suspects that aligns fairly closely with 2021 Census data for the general population in England and Wales[footnote 132] (88% White, 7% Asian, 5% Black, 3% Mixed and 2% Other), with a caveat noted in the report that self-defined ethnicity was only recorded for 34% of suspects.
With over two thirds of ethnicity data missing for perpetrators in the VKPP report and nearly two thirds missing in COCAD, it is not possible to draw any conclusions on the representation of ethnic groups amongst perpetrators from this published data set.
This audit took the same published data set and reconfigured it. If perpetrators for whom ethnicity was not known or declared are included in the data and percentage breakdowns, the figures look very different, with 28% of perpetrators identifying as White:
EthnicityNumberPercentage
White 1,884 28%
Asian 165 2%
Black 110 2%
Mixed 60 <1%
Other 47 <1%
Not declared 4,404 66%
Totals 6,670 100%
Presenting the data without the ‘unknowns’ where the identification of ethnicity is at such a low level is misleading.
The issue is we are missing 66% of the data so we have no idea that any one ethnicity or subethnic group is disporportinately forming rape gangs,.