‘PC’ police failed to stop Asian gangs preying on white girls in Keighley - ex-MP

GANGS of Asian men were allowed to pray on vulnerable young white girls for years in Yorkshire because authorities were “terrified of being called racist”, a former MP has said.

By Jack Blanchard, Political Editor

Published 29th Jan 2013, 17:02 BST

Ann Cryer, who was MP for Keighley for 13 years before stepping down in 2010, said there had been a total failure by local police, social services, schools and hospitals in West Yorkshire to work together to address the mounting evidence of child sex exploitation that emerged a decade ago.

“There has to be inter-agency working - and that wasn’t happening then,” she told a committee of MPs tonight.

“The West Yorkshire Police, Bradford local authority, social services, schools, hospitals even – because abortions were taking place – none of them were working together. None of them were giving information.

“I feel pretty convinced that at that time there was a fear of being called racist.”