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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Rupert Lowe’s rape gang enquiry, report published

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Yddraigoldragon · 16/06/2026 20:50

The report has been published, link below.

http://bit.ly/4uE5odw

It is harrowing.

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NoNever · 17/06/2026 16:51

Onmytod24 · 17/06/2026 10:48

If actual testimonies are used of course that’s not rubbish it’s the conclusions the emotive language everything about the report that means it’s not a report. It’s just a mad diatribe against a group in society absolutely bonkers anyone reading it and thinking it sticking up for women pathetic.

If? So you haven’t read it, but you’re super duper sure it’s all just rubbish.

OneAmberFinch · 17/06/2026 16:52

OhGoshNotAgain · 17/06/2026 16:26

Easy to say that when someone puts the truth out there, isn’t it? But you’re wrong.

I fully supported an official public inquiry. I work voluntarily with young rape victims. I want this sort of thing addressed head on and dealt with in the full glare of publicity and in the force of law.

What I don’t want is exploited women and girls being further exploited by more men who claim they care and have their interests at heart, when it’s very clear they don’t think any such thing. If you have no questions about the motivations and intentions of Restore, then I think you need to remove the mote from thine own eye.

I'm not a Restore voter and I think it's obvious that one of Lowe's major motivation for publishing this report is political gain, to promote his anti-immigration party. I also think he's likely sincerely disgusted by what happened and it has formed part of his reasoning for being so anti-immigration. They're intertwined.

I also think there are many men who are viscerally disgusted by this and want to protect "their" (white) women from this. I think they are genuinely motivated by wanting to avoid it happening in future. It's also true that part of that visceral reaction is because they understand it as an attack on territory by an enemy; this isn't to say they would be okay with another white man raping white women, but the fact that it's a foreign enemy adds an extra visceral layer for them which is an attack on white British men, sort of mocking/spitting in their face. Both are true. They're intertwined.

I think we can acknowledge these competing motivations among men who champion this cause, but also acknowledge it's not really right to use the same term "exploited" to refer to being anally raped with glass bottles/knives/petrol etc, that we do for politicians who verbally describe the horrific acts in service of their own political ends. Like, the first is just objectively the actual heinous crime. The second is eyeroll-worthy perhaps, we can be a bit cynical about it, but it's not equivalent to being a gang rapist/torturer.

Snugglemonkey · 17/06/2026 16:52

Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/06/2026 10:10

They weren’t going to get it though, were they? Many of these women participated in this inquiry (led by the amazing Sammy Woodhouse, Rotherham survivor) because they were let down by the government one. You know, the one they didn’t want to hold in the first place but were obliged to u turn on due to public pressure?

They still have not got it.

Onmytod24 · 17/06/2026 16:54

NoNever · 17/06/2026 16:51

If? So you haven’t read it, but you’re super duper sure it’s all just rubbish.

It’s easy when they use the daily mail as an authentic place to quote from as well as far right US nutters who know nothing about Great Britainyou know it’s rubbish

Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/06/2026 16:55

I agree, @Snugglemonkey and I’ve been clear that I see the value of this is to put pressure on the government to conduct an appropriate inquiry themselves.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/06/2026 16:57

OneAmberFinch · 17/06/2026 16:52

I'm not a Restore voter and I think it's obvious that one of Lowe's major motivation for publishing this report is political gain, to promote his anti-immigration party. I also think he's likely sincerely disgusted by what happened and it has formed part of his reasoning for being so anti-immigration. They're intertwined.

I also think there are many men who are viscerally disgusted by this and want to protect "their" (white) women from this. I think they are genuinely motivated by wanting to avoid it happening in future. It's also true that part of that visceral reaction is because they understand it as an attack on territory by an enemy; this isn't to say they would be okay with another white man raping white women, but the fact that it's a foreign enemy adds an extra visceral layer for them which is an attack on white British men, sort of mocking/spitting in their face. Both are true. They're intertwined.

I think we can acknowledge these competing motivations among men who champion this cause, but also acknowledge it's not really right to use the same term "exploited" to refer to being anally raped with glass bottles/knives/petrol etc, that we do for politicians who verbally describe the horrific acts in service of their own political ends. Like, the first is just objectively the actual heinous crime. The second is eyeroll-worthy perhaps, we can be a bit cynical about it, but it's not equivalent to being a gang rapist/torturer.

Agree with this.

EasternStandard · 17/06/2026 16:57

Onmytod24 · 17/06/2026 16:54

It’s easy when they use the daily mail as an authentic place to quote from as well as far right US nutters who know nothing about Great Britainyou know it’s rubbish

Edited

Do you mean the victims weren’t spoken with? Are you sure?

Agniezs · 17/06/2026 16:58

SleeplessInWherever · 17/06/2026 14:27

Please don’t tell me how OSPC’s work, I deal with them for a living and am not relying on what “someone said.”

Pakistan OSPC are issued at regional level. I’m looking at one, as we speak. They’re issued at national level if you follow the High Commission (embassy) route. Same for India. Unless you’re suggesting that they are bribing the embassy.

Ghana issue theirs as a national certificate, regardless of which route.

In both cases, the certificates are standardised and printed, rather than handwritten by an officer you could give £2k to.

What’s this got to do with anything, out of interest? You don’t need an OSPC to arrive or live here, you need one to work in certain roles, mainly regulated activity.

Unless the Pakistani gang members were also nurses (?) their lack of OSPC has absolutely no relevance, it’s not a visa or residency requirement.

What’s it got to do with anything? Someone upthread asked if the Taliban kept diligent records of sex attacks. I agreed they are unlikely to. So an Afghan working in the care sector (for example) would get a letter from the embassy but I’m not sure the data would be meaningful.

I am unsure if any of the rapists are doctors or nurses or care workers/social workers. Why wouldn’t they be? Rapists work in all areas.

On a separate point it is suggested that Police officers in the U.K. were however involved in these crimes and officials covered up the crimes. I have no idea who these people are or what their background is. But so many people in authority must have known and apparently some were involved. Has there been failures in vetting? Or systems? Or procedures? People mention clan loyalties, is this considered when people are recruited.

If crimes are dealt with locally in a foreign country then yes I do think local officials could be bribed and the crime not recorded correctly or removed from a centralised database. I like to believe every country has an accurate centralised data base accesible by officials but I am not naive enough to think all data about crimes are recorded accurately. Do I think a criminal could bribe a local officer to not record a crime? - in some countries I do think this could happen.

Do I think an embassy official is open to bribery? The FCA classes some embassy officials as PEPs meaning additional money laundering and bribery checks must be done on them (law and finance). I assume the people that write these letters are far lower ranking individuals not subject to these checks but my experience tells me yes Embassy and political figures are thought to be open to bribery. And would they have ‘clan loyalty’?

This website looks at how corrupt a countries officials are.

www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025/

‘The CPI ranks 182 countries and territories worldwide by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The results are given on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

There are clearly concerns about public sector corruption. Is this index taken into consideration when employing people who need enhanced checks?

This Ghanaian embassy was committing Visa fraud in 2025 so yes I do think officials in Embassies can be corrupt.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr56vl410go

(Sorry if this is derailing and thank you @SleeplessInWherever for taking time to discuss).

Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/06/2026 16:58

It doesn’t sound like the pp has read the report.

OhGoshNotAgain · 17/06/2026 16:59

OneAmberFinch · 17/06/2026 16:52

I'm not a Restore voter and I think it's obvious that one of Lowe's major motivation for publishing this report is political gain, to promote his anti-immigration party. I also think he's likely sincerely disgusted by what happened and it has formed part of his reasoning for being so anti-immigration. They're intertwined.

I also think there are many men who are viscerally disgusted by this and want to protect "their" (white) women from this. I think they are genuinely motivated by wanting to avoid it happening in future. It's also true that part of that visceral reaction is because they understand it as an attack on territory by an enemy; this isn't to say they would be okay with another white man raping white women, but the fact that it's a foreign enemy adds an extra visceral layer for them which is an attack on white British men, sort of mocking/spitting in their face. Both are true. They're intertwined.

I think we can acknowledge these competing motivations among men who champion this cause, but also acknowledge it's not really right to use the same term "exploited" to refer to being anally raped with glass bottles/knives/petrol etc, that we do for politicians who verbally describe the horrific acts in service of their own political ends. Like, the first is just objectively the actual heinous crime. The second is eyeroll-worthy perhaps, we can be a bit cynical about it, but it's not equivalent to being a gang rapist/torturer.

Your inference that I am in any way making the equivalence you set out here is disgusting. It is very clear that I am saying no such thing. I think you should retract your comment.

My point is that this is not a good faith act by Lowe, and neither is his profession to stand for the poor and working classes of this country. I can see the scale of the betrayal people who vote for him and for Reform coming down the line. I am sorry if others won’t see it until it is too late.

SallySharp · 17/06/2026 17:00

Onmytod24 · 17/06/2026 16:54

It’s easy when they use the daily mail as an authentic place to quote from as well as far right US nutters who know nothing about Great Britainyou know it’s rubbish

Edited

Most of us have read it through at least once, Some parts several times to understand one point or another. We are quoting directly from the report not from a secondary source.
There is also details of Sammy Woodhouse on Wikipedia. did you bother to read it.

SionnachRuadh · 17/06/2026 17:01

Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/06/2026 16:50

I’ll defer to your knowledge of these Restore people, I don’t know who any of them are except the Lotus Eaters lot.

There are some extremely rum characters in that organisation. Lots of people who were in Homeland or Patriotic Alternative very recently, and still can't stop themselves tweeting Hitler memes; a very strange cohort of autistic teenagers who like to tweet videos of themselves rambling about miscegenation. Steve Laws, who went on Andrew Gold's podcast to say that Andrew (a British Jew whose family have been in the country over 100 years) should be deported to Israel.

Lucy White, who's supposedly on the moderate wing, went to the Porto conference and posed for photos with Jared Taylor. Anyone dumb enough to pose for photos with Jared Taylor shouldn't be in politics.

And of course Carl Benjamin and the rest of the Swindon Topman Gang. If Lowe had listened to Farage, Nigel would probably have told him, "don't allow Carl to join your party, you'll just end up being asked questions about whether he wants to rape Jess Phillips and why he keeps saying the n-word on his streams".

Rupert, who I suspect doesn't know what's happening in his party, is happy to pose for photos with all of them.

Sammy Woodhouse, at her best, has been able to ally with politicians across the spectrum like Vera Baird (Labour) and Vicky Atkins (Tory). As I say, I think she's naive about the people she's now allied with, but the stink of fascism will make it a lot harder to win mainstream allies.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/06/2026 17:02

Lowe is using it as a political issue in the same way other politicians use other issues, like assisted suicide or climate change. That’s politics. I’m not sure what would constitute “good faith” engagement exactly? There is precious little good faith in evidence anywhere in politics.

Agniezs · 17/06/2026 17:03

OhGoshNotAgain · 17/06/2026 16:59

Your inference that I am in any way making the equivalence you set out here is disgusting. It is very clear that I am saying no such thing. I think you should retract your comment.

My point is that this is not a good faith act by Lowe, and neither is his profession to stand for the poor and working classes of this country. I can see the scale of the betrayal people who vote for him and for Reform coming down the line. I am sorry if others won’t see it until it is too late.

Which party would protect working class white girls? And why didn’t they do the inquiry? Who should they vote for? Or would people prefer they just didn’t vote in case they vote incorrectly?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/06/2026 17:04

SionnachRuadh · 17/06/2026 17:01

There are some extremely rum characters in that organisation. Lots of people who were in Homeland or Patriotic Alternative very recently, and still can't stop themselves tweeting Hitler memes; a very strange cohort of autistic teenagers who like to tweet videos of themselves rambling about miscegenation. Steve Laws, who went on Andrew Gold's podcast to say that Andrew (a British Jew whose family have been in the country over 100 years) should be deported to Israel.

Lucy White, who's supposedly on the moderate wing, went to the Porto conference and posed for photos with Jared Taylor. Anyone dumb enough to pose for photos with Jared Taylor shouldn't be in politics.

And of course Carl Benjamin and the rest of the Swindon Topman Gang. If Lowe had listened to Farage, Nigel would probably have told him, "don't allow Carl to join your party, you'll just end up being asked questions about whether he wants to rape Jess Phillips and why he keeps saying the n-word on his streams".

Rupert, who I suspect doesn't know what's happening in his party, is happy to pose for photos with all of them.

Sammy Woodhouse, at her best, has been able to ally with politicians across the spectrum like Vera Baird (Labour) and Vicky Atkins (Tory). As I say, I think she's naive about the people she's now allied with, but the stink of fascism will make it a lot harder to win mainstream allies.

Thanks, I always enjoy your descriptions!

NoNever · 17/06/2026 17:05

FinchiePink · 17/06/2026 12:03

A very few were girls from stable homes, yes. It is striking however how many girls had been subject to abuse of one sort or another.

That to me is the root cause of this.

Children who have already been abused by their own parents. Children whose parents don't know or care where they are. Children coming from families where schools don't matter. Children who are already exposed to drugs and alcohol at a young age.

They were already being systemically abused by their families even before any of the grooming gangs came along.

You believe the root cause of gangs of men raping children is the children’s home life? Nothing at all to do with the gangs of men doing the raping?

ExasperatedIs · 17/06/2026 17:06

ApplebyArrows · 16/06/2026 23:09

I think there are serious issues here and they need to be seriously investigated and dealt with, but having Lowe's name attached instantly makes one suspect there may be other motives here which may have biased the investigation.

How can it be biased when the evidence it happened is there! There’s no bias about it.

IdaGlossop · 17/06/2026 17:06

ilovebrie8 · 17/06/2026 15:38

I was in Leeds recently and all Ubers/taxi drivers were Pakistani drivers.
I saw no white taxi drivers at all in Leeds, not one.
I wouldn’t take a taxi after dark I did daytime but not sure I’d do it a again.

Edited

It's the same in the South Yorkshire city I'm from. Few of them speak very much English. Most don't know the roads and have to be directed.

5MinuteArgument · 17/06/2026 17:06

OneAmberFinch · 17/06/2026 15:51

I would add that there is specifically value in understanding how these clan-based networks operate, in ways that are different from cultural assumptions for white British people.

For example, our assumptions about nepotism and "who you would lie to the police for" typically assume that it's quite a small group of immediate relatives rather than a wide network. So all our official safeguards only ask about spouses and siblings. And things like biraderi clan affiliation are NOT recorded, so there is no official link between, say, a rape gang member and a police officer "clanmate" who destroys evidence on his behalf. The state only observes that they're the same race (and it's illegal to cast aspersions on the police officer on this basis).

All cultures are not the same and you need to specifically look at individual cultures to understand how to disrupt criminal behaviour emerging from each one.

Yes, interesting. I think this was evident in the cover-up carried out by local councillors and politicians. If they were all linked by clan then it makes complete sense that they would seek to minimise, dismiss, destroy evidence etc. And I'm sure it extends to vote rigging, drug-dealing and other corrupt practices.

It's a real can of worms and something we've naively imported into our country.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/06/2026 17:06

I also think some of these people seem odd bedfellows! I guess the Lotus Eaters, Elon Musk etc would latch onto any politician who would focus on the things they prioritise.

ilovebrie8 · 17/06/2026 17:14

IdaGlossop · 17/06/2026 17:06

It's the same in the South Yorkshire city I'm from. Few of them speak very much English. Most don't know the roads and have to be directed.

Yep same in Leeds.

SionnachRuadh · 17/06/2026 17:16

One fun thing to watch will be whether Restore implodes now that all the right-wing micro-parties who hate Farage are merging into it.

I don't imagine that Ben Habib (half Pakistani), Calvin Robinson (half black) or Laurence Fox (married to a black woman) are going to go down well with the white nationalist wing.

And Lotus Eaters has always been kind of a grift anyway. 10 years from now, there's a good chance that the Islamist lads on 5 Pillars will be doing interviews with famed podcaster Mohammed al-Haroun (formerly Carl Benjamin)

lornad00m · 17/06/2026 17:17

Plimfoot · 17/06/2026 09:14

Excuse my language but I am so fucking sick of being called racist or far right for pointing out that 1+1=2.

And it's children and women that suffer for it, time and time again.

Pakistan is not a safe country for women. We are told not to travel there by our own government. It is the men there that make it unsafe for female travellers.

Then the gov imports these men and act like they aren't a danger on UK soil too!!

Do they think on the flight over these men have complete culture transplants? They come from a place where women are covered, bought and sold, there is no such thing as consent and any women showing her legs, arms or hair is a sex worker.

Then they see teenage girls dressing completely normally and see it as an invitation or a testimony to her being 'impure' or 'up for it'.

We see it time and time and time again.

https://x.com/RMXnews/status/1971532985007780252?s=20

THAT is the reality of these mens thoughts around sex and western women.

The case drew further attention after Aktuell Informiert reported that both the Frankfurt police and the district court concluded the man was in a state of “exceptional psychological distress.” As a result, neither pretrial detention nor psychiatric commitment was ordered. Instead, the man was released after being processed at the station.
Police confirmed that the suspect “must answer for his actions,” but it remains unclear whether charges will proceed. The police report did not categorically state whether or not the suspect had been charged.
When asked about the man’s nationality or whether he has since left Germany, Frankfurt police declined to comment, saying that such details are not included in press releases.

https://rmx.news/article/harassing-migrant-from-viral-video-resists-police-arrest-and-is-then-released-due-to-psychological-distress/

Fucking outrageous. 😡

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Frankfurt (ots) - (ha) Am gestrigen Mittwochmorgen (10. September 2025) nahmen Polizisten einen jungen Mann fest, nachdem dieser zuvor mehrere Frauen belästigt haben soll. Im...

https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/4970/6115529

lornad00m · 17/06/2026 17:22

Naunet · 17/06/2026 15:50

Was it the far right that helped facilitate and cover up the rape of thousands of girls? I would suggest were in very real danger from the people who covered this up, wouldn't you?

No.

But I'd put money on men on the right also being abusers. Some of those in powerful positions may use that power to cover up their own crimes. And those of their friends.

Sickening as this is, abusers come from all sides of the political spectrum.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/06/2026 17:36

Reading Reddit and noting how shockingly uninformed the mansplainers are about the gang phenomenon.