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The Rape Gang Inquiry Report · June 2026

250,000+ victims. 149 districts. Decades of failure.

A survivor-led inquiry, chaired by Rupert Lowe MP, has placed the full scale of organised child sexual exploitation in Britain on the public record. This site maps its findings — district by district, decade by decade — and attributes every figure to its source.

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Every figure on this site is sourced to the Rape Gang Inquiry Report (Lowe, 2026) and shown with the report's own caveats. Statistics about specific communities refer to patterns identified in convicted offenders within the analysed cases, not to any community as a whole.

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Estimated victims since the 1950s
Estimate originating in a 2014 House of Lords statement, re-cited and analysed in the Rape Gang Inquiry Report; the Inquiry concludes the true figure is likely higher.
Report, p. 7
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Local authority districts identified
Districts named in Appendix IV as places where rape gangs are known to have operated.
Report, p. 214
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Counties with wider documented activity
Counties named in Appendix IV where evidence is broader but less locally specific.
Report, p. 218
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% of convicted CSE group offenders with distinctively Muslim names
Figure quoted in the Executive Summary, drawn from analysis of court records and official inquiries. Refers to convicted offenders in group-based CSE cases, not all sexual offences.
Report, p. 7

Where to begin

The interactive map

All 149 districts plotted. Filter by decade, severity and institution. Drill into named cases.

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Executive findings

What the report establishes about the scale, the pattern, and what the state did and did not do.

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Survivor & whistleblower voices

Anonymised testimony from those who lived it, and from officials who tried to act.

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Institutional failures

Sector by sector: police, social services, NHS, schools, taxi licensing, politics.

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1955 — 2026

A scandal seven decades in the making

Drawn from the Inquiry's documentary record. The first organised case identified by the Inquiry dates to 1955; the most recent convictions are still ongoing.

  1. 1955

    First recorded case

    Four Bradford-based men convicted of organised sexual offences against girls — identified by the Inquiry as the earliest documented case of specifically organised rape-gang activity in Britain.

    Report, p. 11

  2. 1960s–1990s

    Decades of unrecorded abuse

    Survivor and whistleblower testimony to the Inquiry documents sustained organised abuse across northern towns and London boroughs, almost entirely unaddressed by the state.

    Report, p. 18

  3. 2003

    Anne Cryer MP raises Keighley

    MP Anne Cryer publicly raises grooming in her Keighley constituency and is widely condemned. The Inquiry treats this as a watershed moment of political silencing.

    Report, p. 134

  4. 2010

    Op. Retriever — Derby

    Nine men convicted in one of the first high-profile UK grooming-gang prosecutions.

    Report, p. 203

  5. 2012

    Rochdale convictions

    Nine men convicted of trafficking and abusing girls in Rochdale; case forces national attention.

    Report, p. 203

  6. 2013

    Op. Bullfinch — Oxford

    Seven men convicted; subsequent Serious Case Review identifies extensive missed opportunities.

    Report, p. 203

  7. 2014

    Jay Report — Rotherham

    Identifies at least 1,400 children exploited 1997–2013; becomes the defining document of the scandal.

    Report, p. 7

  8. 2017

    Op. Sanctuary / Shelter — Newcastle

    18 men convicted; Northumbria Police's use of a paid informant scrutinised.

    Report, p. 203

  9. 2018–2020

    Huddersfield trials — Kirklees

    34 men convicted of offences against girls as young as 11.

    Report, p. 203

  10. 2022

    Telford Inquiry (Crowther)

    Identifies more than 1,000 girls abused in Telford over decades, with police and council failures.

    Report, p. 203

  11. 2025

    Casey Report

    Baroness Casey's national review confirms disproportionate representation of men of Pakistani / Muslim heritage among suspects for group-based CSE.

    Report, p. 5

  12. 2026

    Rape Gang Inquiry Report

    Rupert Lowe MP's survivor-led Inquiry publishes its first-phase report — a 219-page record covering 149 districts, victim and whistleblower testimony, and institutional failures.

    Report, p. 1

“People keep saying this is history. It is not history. It is happening to girls right now in the same towns.”

— Survivor testimony, Appendix II of the Rape Gang Inquiry Report