Rupert Lowe MP
Over the last fortnight, we have had multiple abused women speak of how their rapists attempted to traffic them to Pakistan or elsewhere - they failed, thankfully. We’ve spoken to one woman where it was successful, but thankfully she managed to escape.
It comes up again and again and again. The same tactic.
So please just think about this.
We know that tens and tens of thousands of girls were involved in these gangs, hundreds of thousands.
On British soil, individually they were raped by hundreds of men. We are starting to understand the depravity. And that’s HERE. IN BRITAIN.
Please think honestly - what do you think is happening to these British women who were taken to Pakistan?
And I suspect it is many, many hundreds.
What does their life consist of in Pakistan, as you are reading this?
These men traffic the girls around Britain, over many decades, for sex and violence. Why wouldn't they take them back to Pakistan? Of course they did, and do.
I am urging the Government to confront the scale of this problem, and initiate, as a matter of urgency, a full and properly resourced national investigation into the alleged overseas trafficking of victims connected to organised sexual exploitation.
My motion urging that now has some Conservative backing, and even support from one Reform MP, Rosindell, and one Lib Dem MP. Northern Irish MPs are supportive. But we need more.
I have written to the Home Secretary, even questioned her in Parliament. I am trying everything to put this on the agenda.
What these women are going through in Pakistan will be far beyond the evil we can even imagine.
We need to act, now.
