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The Historical Context of Pakistani Migration and ‘Early Stage’ Evidence of Grooming Gangs
Mithras
J’accuse Jan 09, 2025 ....147, 23
Robert Jenrick has been on the receiving end of calls for him to be sacked after his recent interventions in the ‘Grooming Gang’ debate, in particular for the following tweet published January 4th:
My contention with Jenrick here is not, in the style of nobodies like Daisy Cooper, that his language is inflammatory. Rather, it is that he is hugely understating the scale of the problem and the conclusions that must result from it.
Jenrick states that “The scandal started with the onset of mass migration” and later states that this ‘disastrous experiment’ has continued for thirty years. This ties into the same narrative that Farage uses about immigration - the idea that all was fine and dandy until Tony Blair opened the borders from 1997 onwards.
This is simply factually incorrect when discussing Pakistani Rape Gangs. The Alexis Jay report dates the onset of the mass rape atrocity to the 1970s, a time when Tony Blair was still an Oxford undergraduate playing guitar for The Ugly Rumours.
Our contention goes even further than Alexis Jay. We have substantial evidence that the issue, specifically, of Pakistani Rape Gangs dates back to the early 1950s - when the first waves of Pakistani immigration began after the passage of the 1948 Nationality Act. The blame for this atrocity, then, does not lay with Tony Blair, but with Clement Attlee.
First, some context on Pakistani immigration into the UK
While migration intensified significantly during the 1997-2010 period, data from the 1991 census shows that 94.86% of the population identified as White British, with ethnic minorities making up 5.35% (just over 3 million people). Whilst far smaller and more marginal than in 2025, this still reflects a sizeable number.
- Between 1951 and 2001, the Pakistani population in Britain experienced remarkable growth, increasing from 10,000 in 1951 to 119,000 in 1971, and reaching 747,000 by 2001.
- Approximately 80% of British Pakistanis trace their origins to the Mirpur District of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Among Mirpuri emigrants, 71% visit their homeland annually, 67% regularly send remittances, and 79% express a desire to return permanently to Mirpur, highlighting their strong transnational connections to Pakistan.
- As such, the culture of Pakistan exists on a continuum between the state of Pakistan and parts of England with large Pakistani populations, such as Bradford or Rochdale. One example of this was the murder of an Ahmadiyya shopkeeper in Glasgow by a Sunni Pakistani man from Bradford because of sectarian hatreds from Pakistan.
- Pakistan is one of the worst places in the world to be a female, with little recourse to justice. Reported cases are described as a “tip of the iceberg” by officials due to societal stigma and fear of retributive violence. As has been documented and evidenced in many ‘grooming gang’ cases across the United Kingdom, this widespread sexual violence became entrenched, likely to this day, in towns and cities across England.
- In Pakistan, the rate of consanguineous marriage, particularly first-cousin marriage, ranges between 38% and 49%, with higher rates in rural areas. Among British Pakistanis, studies in Bradford show that 37% of Pakistani-origin babies were born to first-cousin parents, with 59% having consanguineous parents.
- The migration of Mirpuris to Britain was driven primarily by economic reasons particularly after the 1960s, when over 280 villages were submerged for the Mangla Dam construction, displacing over 110,000 people.
- To take one example, the city of Bradford by 1944-45 there were estimated to be 30 ‘Indo-Pakistanis’ in the city. By 1964 the city had a total population of 296,000, with 12,000 residents being Pakistani. 5,000 of whom originated from Mirpur. This sort of growth is typical for towns and cities in the North and Midlands of England with large Pakistani population in 2025. By 1970 the Pakistani population of Bradford was estimated at 21,000 and by 2021 the Pakistani population of the Bradford Metropolitan District totalled 139,553.
These are documented stories from the British Newspaper Archive. A comprehensive list of news reports indicating that organised child grooming and sexual abuse by Pakistani males was entrenched as early as the 1950s.
Whilst this is not scientific data or analysis, many of the stories demonstrate that sexual abuse was a feature of migration ever since the first pioneer settlers arrived following the Second World War.
Cases between 1945-1975 found in a brief search on the British Newspaper Archive
1955
Bradford Grooming Gang
Four Bradford-based Pakistani men appeared at Bradford City Court accused of having carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old girl from Middlesbrough. This is the first clear grooming case, and happened in Bradford, where there has still not been a wave of prosecutions for grooming. In 2025 Bradford Council again refused Robbie Moore MP’s demand for an inquiry.
1957
Girls in Kent ‘with Bad Company’ from Pakistan
“13-year-old Pauline Beech of Camden Road and 14-year-old Ann Lawrence of Forest Road—have been missing since Wednesday. Their mothers suspect the girls may have gone to London, possibly to meet a Pakistani acquaintance. Although Ann has run away before, this is the longest she has been gone, and both mothers fear that “bad company” may be involved.”
1959
Grooming in Keighley West Yorkshire
“In a statement to a police woman a 16-year-old Colne girl admitted that she drank six gin and oranges in a Keighley hotel. Afterwards she went out with a 30-year-old Pakistani and did not return home that night, The girl appeared before a Juvenile Panel yesterday as being in need of care and protection and exposed to moral danger. The chairman, Mr. R. J. Walker, described the case as ‘“the worst in my 20 years’ experience.”’ A supervision order was made for three years and the girl was warned to keep off drink and away from these people in Keighley.”
1959
Grooming in Halifax, Yorkshire
“The 15-year-old girl appeared before Halifax Juvenile Court, where Superintendent L. Masses, M.B.E., gave evidence indicating that her parents were aware she was associating with a Pakistani man (referred to in court as “Mr X”), Having admitted she was “exposed to moral danger,” she was sent to a remand home for three weeks. Superintendent Masses noted the girl clearly needed better care and protection, highlighting inadequate parental supervision.”
1960
Grooming Gang in Nelson, Lancashire
It is claimed that a 13-year-old girl and her 17-year-old friend were indecently assaulted in a house in Nelson. The perpetrators, described as Pakistani men, were jailed following the incident. The case also has evidence of trafficking, as the girls were moved to a house in Bradford.
1962
14-Year-Old ‘Lived With Pakistani’
A 14-year-old girl, who ran away from home and lived with a Pakistani man for two weeks, was returned to her parents by West Hartlepool Juvenile Court and placed under probation supervision for two years. She was discovered by Policewoman Sylvia Ward in a West Hartlepool house occupied by several Pakistani men. It emerged that the girl had travelled there after meeting the man in a coffee bar and was instructed not to reveal her real age.
1962
Faversham Grooming Gang
Three Pakistani men are given sentences by their own ‘community’ for the rape of a 15 year old girl, “who was not without experience of men”.
1963
17 year old ‘living with a Pakistani Male’ who Assaulted her in Nelson
Jacqueline Edwards (17), from Nelson, and her two friends were accused of stealing a tape recorder from the home of Lumb Akhtar Awan, where Edwards had been living for a few months. They claimed they only borrowed the recorder and intended to return it but feared Awan might harm them. After hearing evidence—including allegations that one of the girls was assaulted—the magistrates dismissed the case.
1964
Nelson Grooming Gang
A 14-year-old girl from Nelson, known to be associating with Pakistani men and women of “dubious character,” appeared before a Juvenile Panel as a young person in need of care and protection. A teacher noted the girl seemed unhappy at home and was drawn to the Pakistani community, spending time in a café owned and frequented by them. The court placed her under probation supervision for two years.
1964
Colne, Nelson Grooming Gang
Two Colne girls, aged 15 and 16, admitted living with Pakistani men in Blackburn “out of curiosity” after running away from home. A Padiham Juvenile Court deemed them to be in need of care and protection, imposing two-year supervision orders on both. Their parents were also made to exercise proper control.
1966
Grooming Gang in Halifax, Yorkshire
Two sisters, aged 13 and 11, were placed into temporary care by a Halifax court after concerns arose over their welfare. The elder girl, who had previously been found at a Pakistani man’s house in Liverpool with her mother’s consent, was deemed to need extra care, while the younger girl was committed to local authority care until mid-October. Their father, citing the mother’s poor health, said he wanted the younger child at home but agreed the older daughter required additional support. Police reports indicated the children had been left unsupervised at times, and were most recently discovered in Bradford after going missing.
1966
Oldham Grooming Gang
A 30-year-old Pakistani man, Mohammed Habib, was accused of assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Oldham, Lancashire, after providing alcohol (gin and vodka) to two boys and two girls. Superintendent David Rees described the incident as part of a broader issue in the area, where men buy drinks for young people to take advantage of them. Habib, who pleaded guilty, was remanded with a recommendation for deportation. This is also an indication of grooming in Oldham going back to the 1960s- the place where Jess Philips is refusing to hold an inquiry.
As well as these cases, which show clearly that systematic Pakistani grooming dates back to the 1950s, the search has turned up many examples of aggravated sexual violence against teenagers and young women from Pakistanis from the 1950s onwards.
1950 Attempted Murder In Wales
1960 - A Pakistani man follows a 16 year old girl in Nelson, Lincolnshire, pulls her into a back street and assaults her.
1961 - “Girl Mauled by Pakistani in Trafalgar Square”
1961 - Pakistani immigrant in Nelson attempts to harass two girls and a frightened woman, scared off by a ‘Mr Smith’.
1962 - “Pakistani Indecent Assault on 11 year old in Leicester”.
1966 - Pakistani rapes child in Reading
1970 - Four Pakistani men charged with abduction and gang rape
1972 - Rape of Two Girls by Pakistani Males in Buckinghamshire, after accepting a lift home from two Pakistani youths. High Wycombe, 11.8% Pakistani, is yet to have an inquiry.
1973 - Two twenty year old girls raped by four Pakistani men after accepting a lift.
1973 - 17 year old raped by Pakistani at knife point in Reading.
1975 - 18 year old raped multiple times by two Pakistani men identified as Mohammed Rias (20) and Mohammed Rias (19) at a flat in Newcastle. She was picked up in a taxi.
1975 - 18 Year old held prisoner and raped by Pakistani.
It is absolutely vital to the future of the immigration debate that the rape gang atrocity cannot be sublimated into tired Farageist narratives which are nasty about Eastern Europeans and pleasant about ‘The Commonwealth’, and put the blame solely at the feet of Tony Blair. Politicians who wish to wear the mantle of the New Right must be unequivocal in their narrative if they wish to move this conversation on past the endless doom-loop of ‘robust integration’ and cricket playing sahibs.
It is too late in the day to indulge these idle fantasies. White children are being enslaved by these gangs and their families are being burnt to death to intimidate the wider ‘community’.
We must begin with the truth; the truth that post-war immigration, even in small numbers, is the single most catastrophic event in modern British History. It is the most grievous of the many bleeding wounds that the Attlee Government slashed into the country, alongside the welfare state, ‘levelling up’ and the NHS. It will not be stitched together until we find politicians who are willing to speak plainly.
This is not a demand for Nigel Farage to stand up and say the fourteen words on GB News. Far from it. These arguments were made by politicians like Winston Churchill and Enoch Powell in their own time. Until they are reintegrated into mainstream political discourse we will not be able to ‘have an open and honest’ debate about immigration.
The Historical Context of Pakistani Migration and ‘Early Stage’ Evidence of Grooming Gangs
Mithras
www.jaccusepaper.co.uk
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