The former home secretary Jack Straw has said that some Pakistani men in Britain regard white girls as "easy meat" for sexual abuse

The Blackburn MP spoke out after two South Asian men who raped and sexually assaulted girls in Derby were given indefinite jail terms. Straw said there was a specific problem in some areas of the country where Pakistani men target vulnerable young white girls. Mohammed Liaqat, 28, and Abid Saddique, 27, were jailed at Nottingham crown court after being found guilty at a trial in November 2010 of charges including rape. Saddique was jailed for at least 11 years while Liaqat will be locked up for at least eight years. The pair were the ringleaders of a gang that groomed and abused girls aged from 12 to 18. The sentences were passed down a day after the prime minister, David Cameron, said cultural sensitivities should not hinder police action in such cases. Six other men had already been sentenced for their part in the abuse, investigated in Operation Retriever, led by Derbyshire police.