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WATCH: Charlie Peters details sheer intensity of grooming gang networks with shocking new maps
May 6, 2025
Watch as GB News National Reporter Charlie Peters takes you through shocking new details about the grooming gangs plaguing Britain.Data has been gathered in the first full national dossier of the grooming gangs scandal.GB News has partnered with researchers from Crime Spotlight to comprehensively record key elements behind the nationwide crisis.WATCH THE VIDEO IN FULL ABOVE
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In a GB News exclusive, the full extent of Britain's grooming gangs has been uncovered
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Well, our reporter Charlie Peters is in the studio to tell us more. Morning, Charlie. Good morning, Ellie. Good morning, Eamon
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Well, in January, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said that the government would launch a three-month rapid audit
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led by Baroness Louise Casey to assess the extent of this country's grooming gangs scandal
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Well, GB News has teamed up with some grassroots researchers from Crime Spotlight UK and we have done our own research
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We've compiled our own dossier. And here it is, the map of the United Kingdom with this grooming gangs scandal
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You show that this is truly a national scandal. Indeed, the map's so large, we can't even fit in Plymouth in the bottom
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where we have found over 50 different towns and cities with some 500 convictions for this sort of abuse
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starting from 2007 and moving up until last year. And if you see the intensity of most of these convictions and most activity
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it's happening in the north and northwest, with Birmingham, London, Oxfordshire and the West Midlands also coming through
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Now, if we move further up into the north of England, you see that absolute intensity
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of this crisis here, with some suspected gang activity moving into the edges of West Yorkshire
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and a particular focus around Batley around Dewsbury and Bradford and also into Huddersfield And then there Rotherham on our next slide there One of the most intense areas for this form of abuse
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If you move on, you can show you what this website will show you
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The number of convictions per local authority and area. Just 65 in Rotherham, where since 1997 we know that there have been at least 1,510 victims and survivors identified
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The vast majority of those will not have achieved justice. And if Rotherham has 65 and the nation has over 500, that's tens of thousands of survivors still waiting for justice
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We've also compiled a network diagram. diagram. This ysis showing the extent of the trafficking crisis when we look at this form of
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abuse. And you can show that these are not isolated towns and cities dealing with this crisis, but
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these are interlinked, organised criminal gangs engaging in some of the most heinous abuse. You
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can see those links stretch nationwide. Some of these accounts have been gathered from government
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reports. They've been heard in courtrooms or they've been given by police reports. But many of
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them have been given directly to GB News in exclusive interviews with survivors sharing
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their experiences of trafficking. And then here it is in the north, the sheer intensity
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of these networks, how they interlink. And there's only just a couple of towns where
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they've actually had reports in this area, in Rochdale here, but also in Rotherham. You
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see how these are absolute centres of trafficking for the rest of the north of England In some cases we also seen significant activity of men travelling to abuse or moving children around from the north straight into London In one case
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one survivor being trafficked from Bristol wrap up to Rotherham. And you see those links go right
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across the northwest. But again, just a handful of these locations has actually had inquiries
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So it is an extensive report, Eamon and Ellie. It does show how widespread this crisis is. And it
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just goes to show that against all of those demands for a full national statutory inquiry
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there is so much evidence here of widespread links between abuse gangs, of this being a truly
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national scandal. We can also reveal this morning that there are no evidence of any deportations
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for any grooming gang abusers since 2011, well over a decade since as far as our records and
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archives can show the last abuser was deported. This is a truly national scandal. It continues
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to rumble on with the controversy around the Minister Lucy Powell last week. And it just
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goes to show that ahead of Baroness Louise Casey's rapid audit returning, the GB News
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can show just how extensive and how heinous this national scandal truly is
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Truly is heinous. Thank you so much, Charlie, for all your hard work on that
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Charlie, can I ask you a question? You may not know the answer
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to this, but for how many years, during what you've been talking about there, for how many
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years was Keir Starmer the Director of Public Prosecutions He must have covered some time in charge I think about five years And he often says that he was part of the first grooming gang prosecution
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that as DPP he led that successful prosecution. But our first prosecution we have here is from 2007
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He's never said specifically which case that is, so we're not sure about that
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But there is a clear overlap between the prime minister's time as DPP
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and also the many of the convictions that are going on here, many survivors and those within the law say that during his period as DPP
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he did change the rules. The CPS updated its guidance to improve how these prosecutions take place
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But even recently, up in Barrow in the Northwest, also on our grooming gangs map
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compiled with those researchers from Crime Spotlight, that grassroots group, we've heard many accounts of how the CPS has not followed through with prosecutions
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even after quite severe and very direct testimony from survivors who still feel as though they're being let down
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not just by social services and the police, but also by those in charge of prosecutions
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Charlie, thank you very much indeed. So this is the point, this is the fear here
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People hypothesise about why would Labour, why would the government not want a national investigation
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And part of the theory that comes up is, Well, because your boss was in charge of prosecutions then
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and maybe he won't want all that coming out or being regurgitated or talked about or whatever
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Your theory is very welcome. Let us know
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