A political earthquake has been brought to Great Britain by Elon Musk’s persistent attack on the British Prime Minister regarding the scandal of rape and abuse of young girls in the North of England from 1997 to 2013.
Elon Musk’s persistent attacks, from the very first day of 2025, on Keir Starmer, his government and his hitherto friend and colleague Nigel Farage have brought political upheaval to Britain. The tech mogul and the world’s richest man has not hesitated to ask King Charles to take the initiative and to dissolve the parliament himself leading the country directly to elections on the grounds that those currently serving from 10 Downing Street are the orchestrators of a massive cover-up of what is indeed a huge scandal involving the rape and abuse of hundreds of children from 1997 to 2013 in the North of England and in particular in Rotherham in Greater Manchester.
The scandal to which Musk refers is real. An independent report that has documented more than 1400 cases of rape and abuse of minors – the majority of them children aged 11 or under – was published in 2014 and signed by Dr Alexis Jay, currently chair of the independent authority on child sexual abuse in the UK. In the 159-page report Alexis Jay documents with evidence the confirmed cases of 1400 children who between 1997 and 2013 were raped – gang raped many times – trafficked, abused and some even murdered by gangs in the North of England. The absolutely shocking findings of the investigation highlight that in most cases members of the gangs that exploited these minor victims in the most extreme ways were of Pakistani origin.
The inquiry records a systematic attempt to cover up this particular scandal which the British professor describes as an “epidemic” by both the police authorities and the judiciary. In the report, Alexis Jay also sets out a series of measures that, if implemented, will bring immediate results and provide answers – and not, as she stresses, vindication or justice – to those victims who have survived.
The scandal, like its counterpart in the systematic rape of children by Catholic priests, surfaced in 2012 following an investigation by the Times who published a detailed 2010 police report which spoke of thousands of allegations of child sexual abuse in South Yorkshire on an annual basis. It is this publication and the general outcry for local and police authorities alike that will bring the Alexis Jay inquiry from Rotherham City Council.
Jay’s report will bring the immediate resignation of both City Council President Roger Stone and the area’s police chief Shaun Wright.
Keir Starmer from 2008 until 2013 was the chief prosecutor in the UK. Elon Musk puts him in the frame for that five-year period as, according to the world’s richest man, the current Prime Minister knew but chose to “cover up” the thousands of cases.
The truth is that there have been very few trials and convictions compared to the thousands of allegations. Despite this, in 2014 the Linden Inquiry – Operation Linden investigated how South Yorkshire Police handled the complaints. Specifically 91 investigations containing 265 allegations from 51 individuals were reopened and scrutinised in detail. The conclusion of this investigation revealed that a total of 47 police officers were involved of which 14 were ultimately charged. None of the police officers were brought to justice and the police authorities and the ministry say they were dismissed from the force.
Along with the above operation, a special team of 200 special police officers launched Operation Stovewood in order to ensure that justice is finally served. Through the evidence of the investigation from 1997 to 2013 more than 150 arrests were made which eventually led to 20 convictions with sentences of over 100 years in prison but understandably none of the above is enough to provide answers to the families and survivors of the drama of rape and systematic abuse in the North of England.
Based on the evidence and the findings of all independent investigations to date, the British authorities chose this route fearing stigmatisation as “anti-Islamic“. It may seem extreme but it is described in all official documents, reports and findings as the main reason for the failure to act in the face of a scandalous and unprecedented drama.
