Sadiq Khan refuses to apologise to victims of rape gangs

Readers wil remember the several occasions tha Susan Hall, leader of the Conservatives at the London Assembly has asked mayor Sadiq Khan (more than once) and his deputy Kaya Comer-Schwartz if there are grooming rape gangs in London, and if so how many they are. He and his deputy have consistently obfuscated, pretending not to know what a grooming gangis and then lumping that specific MO of crime in with every other crime and wickedness inflicted on our children (County lines drug mules, family abuse, knifecrime…)

Then a few months ago reseach undertaken by London newspapers the London Evening Standard and My London and national news outlets the Express and GB news revealed, each around the same time that there have been instances of grooming rape in London, that some cases were not investigated properly, and others covered up or played down.

Mark Rowley the Police Commissioner admitted this was the case and there are 9000 cases for the Metropolitan police to review. That link is the BBC but I think they can be trusted on that piece of information. 

So this week Susan Hall asked Sadiq Khan for an apology to the victims. No chance; he gave the usual answer, mixing the grooming MO up with every other type of crime against children and generally squirming. He fools no one.

Follow this link ~ Susan Hall at the London Assembly

He is doing himself no favours – the headline in the Times on Thursday was

Sadiq Khan ‘taking the mickey out of grooming gang victims’

On Thursday, Hall confronted Khan when he appeared alongside Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, during a meeting at City Hall in east London.

Assembly members were told the Met initially submitted 197 cases to the National Crime Agency (NCA) in June but last month the number had surged to 9,000.

Hall asked if Khan knew about grooming gangs in his constituency when he was the Labour MP for Tooting in south London.

Rowley told the meeting that investigators had worked through 2,200 of the 9,000 cases and “this has identified that some did not meet the criteria”.

The Met said the ethnicity of suspects was “varied” and reflective of the capital’s diversity.