Last week, tech billionaire Elon Musk slammed the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer over his utter failure to deliver justice to the grooming gang victims in the country. Musk said that Starmer failed to provide justice to the rape gang victims when he was the director of public prosecutions over a decade ago.
“Starmer was complicit in the rape of Britain when he was head of Crown Prosecution for six years. Starmer must go and he must face charges for his complicity in the worst mass crime in the history of Britain,” Musk posted on X. This comes amidst the Labour government’s decision to reject Oldham town council’s plea seeking a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.
Starmer must go. He is national embarrassment. https://t.co/kAsE2KHMpV
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 5, 2025
Musk also highlighted the police complicity in the prevalence of grooming gangs, inaction against them for many years, and the unfair arrests of victims and their family members. “So many people at all levels of power in the UK need to be in prison for this,” Musk said.
Starmer was the Director of Public Prosecutions at the Crown Prosecution Service between 2008-2013 which approves police requests to charge suspects in serious crimes like rape. Musk said that when the rape gangs were exploiting young girls, Starmer headed the CPS and allowed the crimes to take place.
The UK government replied to the event and said that Musk was misguided and misinformed. Responding to Musk, UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting said, “Some of the criticisms that Elon Musk has made, I think, are misjudged and certainly misinformed,” adding that the state was willing to work with him to tackle the issue.
“I think he’s got a big role to play with his social media platform to help us and other countries to tackle this serious issue. So, if he wants to work with us, roll his sleeves up. We’d welcome that,” Streeting said.
So many people at all levels of power in the UK need to be in prison for this. https://t.co/PtM39RGrFi
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 1, 2025
The issue once again caught public eye recently when Home Office Minister Jess Phillips denied Oldham Council’s plea for a government-led inquiry into historical child sexual exploitation. The issue of child sexual abuse at the hands of grooming gangs led by British Pakistani men has been a serious issue demanding attention for years. In the late 90s, young girls, a minimum of 11 were picked up, raped, beaten, sold, and even killed by grooming gangs or rape gangs for a full forty years. One of the exposures in a similar instance in Rotherham found that 1,400 children had been sexually abused over 16 years by British Pakistani men.
Notably, such incidents have been happening since the 1980s in various areas of the United Kingdom including Huddersfield, Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford, Bristol, Peterborough, and Newcastle. However, the first such case that was documented in the records happened in the year 1991.
The book titled ‘Easy Meat-Multiculturalism, Islam and Child Sex Slavery’ by Peter McLoughlin states that the evidence of the members involved in the grooming gang never came out until one similar incident happened in the year 1991 in Bradford.

The book says that the girls from the children’s homes were taken by the gangs, raped, thrown into prostitution, and returned to the children’s homes at night. “There were no criminal convictions arising from these events in 1991, but it seems clear from this story that the child-care professionals knew what was going on (whether they notified the police is another matter, and there’s no indication that the media reported on this case),” the author says adding that it was never made public in the past that the grooming gangs were led by the Pakistani men and that they had been sexually assaulting the girls.
In an exclusive interview with the Sikh Awareness Society, Andrew Norfolk, the Times Journalist revealed that the first pattern he studied of such cases was in the year 1991, when there was much evidence that Pakistanis were raping the girls and throwing them into prostitution.
“When this interview with Norfolk took place in 2012, he pointed out how strange it is that Bradford had not had a single prosecution of a grooming gang despite the city having a bigger problem with this phenomenon than probably anywhere else in the country. A grooming gang in Bradford was convicted later in 2012; more than twenty years after cases were first being discussed by child-care professionals in that city,” McLoughlin said in his book.
As per the document, the defining features of this crime are the ethnic and cultural homogeneity of the gang members, and the refusal of other members of their community to speak out about them or to condemn their behavior. “The gangs are often made up of brothers and members of their extended family, who take part in the grooming and/or rape of the schoolgirls,” the book reads adding that the gangs in Britain were basically operating with impunity between 1988 and 2009.
Meanwhile, globally renowned author JK Rowling known for her advocacy of women’s gender rights emphasized that grooming gangs should be called ‘rape gangs’ and also called the allegations of police complicity in the horrific crimes against women and girls in the UK ‘beyond belief’.
“The details emerging about what the rape gangs (why call them ‘grooming’ gangs? It’s like calling those who stab people to death ‘knife owners’) did to girls in Rotherham are downright horrific. The allegations of possible police corruption in the case are almost beyond belief,” Rowling wrote on X.
The details emerging about what the rape gangs (why call them 'grooming' gangs? It's like calling those who stab people to death 'knife owners') did to girls in Rotherham are downright horrific. The allegations of possible police corruption in the case are almost beyond belief. https://t.co/0SVoxuqw6K
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) January 2, 2025
It is notable that the school girls targeted by these gangs are non-Muslims and the gang members are predominantly Muslims. The gang members lure the girls and trick them into relationships. The girls are trapped by giving gifts, flattered by fake compliments, and asked to engage in ‘romantic relationships’. Once the sexual relations are established these girls are then forced to have relations with the other gang members including the family members of the Muslims. By the time the victims realize that they are being tricked, they are thrown into prostitution.
These ‘grooming’ crimes continue to haunt the United Kingdom as the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) reported in 2023 that there has been an 82% increase in online grooming offenses against youngsters over the past five years. All these years, the grooming gangs in the UK were shielded by the media and pro-Islamist politicians by passing them off as “Asian” or “South Asian grooming gangs”. However, now the state is being questioned for its failure to provide justice to the rape victims.