Petition demanding release of Rape/Grooming Gang report goes VIRAL

The government is refusing to release official research on the characteristics of grooming gangs, claiming it is not in the “public interest”. This comes as a Civil War erupts within the Home Office after new secretary Priti Patel demanded that the report be released. She has since been on the end of a smear campaign that appears to be led by the Civil Service,Media &

Survivors accused ministers of making “empty promises”, while a man who prosecuted abusers in Rochdale called for the Home Office to “show some courage and publish” its findings.

When Sajid Javid launched the enquiry he said there would be “no no-go areas of inquiry”.

I will not let cultural or political sensitivities get in the way of understanding the problem and doing something about it.

We know that in these recent high profile cases, where people convicted have been disproportionately from a Pakistani background.

I’ve instructed my officials to explore the particular contexts and characteristics of these types of gangs.

In a letter to The Independent, officials said they had applied a “public interest test” but the information was exempt from the act because it concerned the development of government policy.

“One of the main purposes of the exemption is to protect the ‘safe space’ necessary for ministers and officials to consider policy options in private without risk of premature disclosure,” it added.

“Disclosure would risk pre-empting decisions still to be made by ministers. In addition, the information could be misleading if made public and used out of context.”

Now the people have had enough and a petition is rocketing and when it reaches 100,000 Parliament will have to debate the issue.