The Pakistani rape gangs scandal is being denied right before our eyes in real time, says Matt Goodwin

The mainstream media facing accusations of downplaying rape gang scandal.

And it’s not only the BBC. Former BBC journalists-turned left wing activists are doing the same.

Let me be really clear about this - the rape gangs scandal is absolutely a Pakistani-related problem.

The data presented on BBC Newsnight that showed Pakistanis made up only 12 per cent of grooming gang suspects is misleading for a number of reasons.

Firstly, it only represents suspects for 2024. We know this phenomenon goes back decades.

Second, less than a third of those suspects actually had their ethnicity recorded. So this data is wildly incomplete.

And thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, it seems our media class wilfully misunderstand the idea of disproportionality.

The United Kingdom is, at least for now, a white majority country, roughly 80 per cent. Meanwhile, Pakistanis make up only 2.7 per cent.

In other words, even if this data is correct, it’s clear that white people are disproportionately underrepresented in this crime and Pakistanis are hugely over-represented.

But there’s even more to this - as GB News reporter Charlie Peters has reported, a Home Office report into this very question revealed, in spite of the attempt to make it appear like a predominantly white problem, it revealed less than 30 per cent of abusers were white, while 28 per cent of abusers were Asian despite making up just nine per cent of the population.

In 2015, a report by Louise Casey likewise concluded that Child Sexual Exploitation ‘concerned a majority of white, female, adolescent or teenage victims and a majority of Pakistani heritage adult male perpetrators’.

Professor Alexis Jay, in her report in 2014, similarly concluded most perpetrators of organised grooming “were of Pakistani heritage”. Police in Rochdale also identified the men convicted at a trial as being “mainly British Pakistani”.

As shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has pointed out, another report that looked into historic rape gangs found 83% of abusers were of Islamic heritage, the majority of whom being Pakistani.

Perhaps most damning of all, the report found by comparing the number of prosecutions to the overall population that 1 in every 2,200 Muslim men over 16 in England and Wales had been prosecuted for this crime from 1997 to 2017.

When it came to Pakistanis it was 1 in 1,700.

In Rochdale, 1 in 280 Muslim males over 16 were prosecuted.

In Telford, it was 1 in 126.

In Rotherham, 1 in 73.

This is the greatest scandal in modern British history and the establishment wants to pretend it didn’t happen.

And you know why? Because it shatters the myth of multiculturalism they’ve been pushing onto the public for the past three decades.