Sex crimes by Asian groomers hushed up and dismissed, inquiry finds

CRIMES committed by Pakistani or Asian grooming gangs were covered up to avoid inflaming community tensions, a distressing report has revealed.

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Dame Louise Casey, in her review, said a "resistance and reluctance" to "acknowledge past mistakes, apologise and take action" led to immense suffering.

And asylum seekers and foreigners have also been linked to a "significant proportion" of grooming gang cases, it found.

An entire chapter of the Casey Review was labelled "Denial" and told how public bodies used "flawed data" to dismiss claims about "Asian grooming gangs as sensationalised, biased or untrue".

Officials feared being called racist if they spoke out against Asian or Pakistani grooming gangs.