British police hid the abuse of 60 girls by South Asian takeaway workers linked to the murder of a14-year-old

At least 60 schoolgirls were groomed for sex by workers at seedy takeaways linked to the murder of a 14-year-old girl. Children as young as 11 were targeted by mainly South Asian staff at fast food outlets in Blackpool. They were offered food, alcohol and cigarettes in return for sexual favors. An police report produced after 14-year-old Charlene Downes vanished in 2003 found that the girls, most if not all white, had been victims of the honey pot premises. Apparently the report was suppressed for reasons of political correctness. The revelations about the scale of grooming centered around the downmarket cafes comes amid growing concern at disturbing cases involving mainly South Asian gangs exploiting young white girls for sex in the Midlands and North of England. The Home Office commissioned a nationwide investigation into the problem, which has long been considered taboo by police officers fearful of being branded racist. Indeed, a former senior detective at Lancashire Police has blamed political correctness for its failure to highlight its 2003 findings in Blackpool. Shocking claims made in court over Charlene’s murder revealed fears that her body had been put through a mincing machine, with takeaway staff said to have joked that her remains had gone into the kebabs. Following Charlene’s disappearance in 2003, police found more than 60 girls were being groomed for sex by non-white men centered around 11 Blackpool takeaways. They were mainly aged between 13 and 15, but some were as young as 11. Former Detective Superintendent Mick Gradwell warned that research into the problem was being hampered by political correctness and concerns about upsetting community cohesion. Details of court cases in 13 towns showed that out of 56 men convicted of multiple offences of grooming girls for sex, 50 were Muslim, mostly of Pakistani heritage.