As Good Oil recently pondered: What doesn’t Sadiq Khan want to see, and why? The notion that Muslim child-rape gangs – I refuse to use the anodyne euphemism ‘grooming gangs’ – operated the length and breadth of England, with the sole exception of the capital and largest Muslim population always defied belief. Yet, that’s what London’s Muslim mayor would have us believe.
The blindfold is off, though – and the question now is whether he was willfully blind, or lying through his teeth. Or worse.
Sadiq Khan is facing calls to resign after a bombshell investigation suggested he personally reviewed reports detailing child grooming horrors – yet publicly insisted no such gangs operated in the capital. The Daily Express and MyLondon probe uncovered six victim cases in official Inspectorate reports from 2016 to 2025, describing girls as young as 13 plied with drugs, gang-raped in hotels, and threatened with death.
Whistleblower Maggie Oliver, who exposed Rochdale’s scandal, slammed the “red flags” as identical patterns of cover-up, declaring three cases clear grooming gang abuses. The scandal erupted as GB News reported Mr Khan’s “untrustworthy” denials, with ex-detective Jon Wedger alleging organised child prostitution thrives under his watch. WION highlighted claims of a Met Police whistleblower accusing the mayor of burying evidence, even as Sharia law fears swirl in affected communities.
The jig is up for both the mayor and the Metropolitan Police force, who have both repeatedly denied the existence of Muslim child-rape gangs in London. Khan insisted there was no evidence.
Except there was – and on his own admission he read it.
Based on on-the-ground assessments of the Met’s handling of sexual abuse cases from the start of Khan’s tenure to this year, the Inspectorate reports explain, often in horrific detail, how police were slow to react to evidence that girls as young as 13 were exploited by gangs of predatory men.
Case studies describe children being plied with drugs and alcohol, raped in hotels by groups and having their lives threatened […]
Sadiq Khan has publicly indicated he read all of these documents in public statements he made in response to the reports.
The reports began shortly after Khan became mayor. In 2016, Khan claimed to be so dismayed by the findings of a report into the Metropolitan Police’s handling of child sexual abuse that he gave it a public rebuke. As part of his posturing as a ‘female-friendly’ SNAG type, Khan thundered that, “Too often, children in our city have been let down when they are most in need”.
Indeed they were – and are – by Khan no less than anyone.
His position, stated publicly, is not only are there “no reports” of grooming gangs in the capital but there is not even an “indication” of their existence.
Except that, in the very reports he made such a fuss about, there were such harrowing stories as a 16-year-old girl raped repeatedly over a three-year period by a group of men from London. In a repeat of other Muslim child-rape gang modus operandi, if she refused to meet the rapists, they would threaten to harm her and her family. One widely circulated claim is that a girl was indeed murdered and disposed of via a kebab shop.
Other case studies Khan read – and lied about – are also grimly familiar. For instance, police arresting the victims and letting the rapists go free, even when caught in the act.
We now know that in at least some cases in places like Rochdale, Rotherham and Telford, police and other authorities were not just covering up the crimes: they were active participants.
Why was Sadiq Khan so determined to keep such horrific under wraps, in his own jurisdiction?
