Testimony

Voices from the Inquiry

Excerpts drawn from Appendix I (Non-Hearing Victim Testimony), Appendix II (Survivor Quotations) and whistleblower evidence given to the Inquiry. All quotations are anonymised. Cards are blurred by default — click to reveal.

This page contains references to rape, child sexual abuse, racial and religious slurs, and the failure of state institutions to act.

Survivor · 2000s
Survivor (anonymised)
“I told the police what was happening. They wrote it down and sent me home. The same men were waiting outside the next night.”
groomingthreatspolice failure
Report, p. 192
Survivor · 2010s
Survivor (anonymised)
“They called me a kuffar. They said white girls were worth nothing. They said no one would believe me.”
kuffar slurracial targeting
Report, p. 192
Survivor · 1990s
Survivor (anonymised)
“I was put in the back of taxis I didn't choose, driven to houses I didn't know, and passed between men I had never met.”
traffickingtaxis
Report, p. 192
Parent · 2010s
Parent (anonymised)
“Social services told me my daughter was making a 'lifestyle choice'. She was thirteen.”
social servicesblame
Report, p. 18
Whistleblower · 2000s
Whistleblower (former police officer)
“We were told, in plain English, not to pursue these cases because of the community we would have to investigate.”
cover-uppolitical pressure
Report, p. 101
Whistleblower · 2010s
Whistleblower (former social worker)
“Files I had written disappeared. When I raised it, I was the one who lost my job.”
evidence destroyedsilencing
Report, p. 101
Survivor · 2010s
Survivor (anonymised)
“The hospital treated me for a pregnancy at fourteen and sent me back to the same address that brought me in.”
NHSpregnancy
Report, p. 192
Survivor · 2020s
Survivor (anonymised)
“People keep saying this is history. It is not history. It is happening to girls right now in the same towns.”
it is ongoing
Report, p. 192