Sad end to a young life.

[mackem 28,550]

Quite a disturbing read.

 

At least 60 schoolgirls were groomed for sex by workers at seedy takeaways linked to the murder of a 14-year-old girl.

Children as young as 11 were targeted by mainly Asian staff at fast food outlets in Blackpool. They were offered food, alcohol and cigarettes in return for sexual favours.

An unpublicised police report produced after 14-year-old Charlene Downes vanished in 2003 found the girls, most if not all white, had been victims of the ‘honey pot’ premises. There were claims last night that the report was suppressed for reasons of political correctness.

Seedy: The takeaway in Blackpool linked to Charlene Downes, then 14, and Paige Chivers, then 15, who are both missing

Four years later another girl, 15-year-old Paige Chivers, also went missing. Detectives believe she was killed like Charlene, whose body has never been found.

Two Middle Eastern restaurant owners were acquitted over Charlene’s murder in 2007 and the crime remains unsolved.

The pair still run a kebab shop in Blackpool which was also linked to Paige, and she too was identified as a victim of sexual exploitation. Last year police reported that the takeaway was attracting young girls who were being supplied with alcohol and cocaine.

 

The revelations about the scale of grooming centred around the downmarket cafes comes amid growing concern at disturbing cases involving mainly Asian gangs exploiting young white girls for sex in the Midlands and North of England.

 

 

The girls, often from vulnerable homes or in the care system, were befriended by men who showered them with gifts and affection before using them for sex.

Former Home Secretary Jack Straw has said the girls were seen as ‘easy meat’, while David Cameron called on police to follow criminal acts ‘without fear or favour’ wherever the evidence leads.

The Home Office commissioned a nationwide investigation into the problem, which has long been considered taboo by police officers fearful of being branded racist.

Indeed, a former senior detective at Lancashire Police yesterday blamed political correctness for its failure to highlight its 2003 findings in Blackpool.

But the force denied this, saying the report had been available online since 2007 but had never been intended for publication.

Senior officers insisted an intensive programme to break the cycle of exploitation had been a success and that in the last six months 50 of 54 grooming suspects were white.

Shocking claims made in court over Charlene’s murder revealed fears that her body had been put through a mincing machine, with takeaway staff said to have joked that her remains had ‘gone into the kebabs’.

A jury failed to reach a verdict on charges that Jordanian immigrant Iyad Albattikhi had murdered her while his Iranian landlord Mohammed Reveshi had disposed of her body.

A retrial collapsed in 2008 amid failings in the police investigation and the men were paid almost £250,000 each in compensation.

The kebab shop run by Mr Albattikhi and Mr Reveshi has changed its name from Funny Boyz to Mr Beanz. It was refused a hot food licence last year amid fears about ‘sexual activity’ linked to the premises, but the pair blame a ‘police vendetta’ and have appealed.

Following Charlene’s disappearance in 2003, police found more than 60 girls were being groomed for sex by non-white men centred around 11 Blackpool takeaways.

They were mainly aged between 13 and 15, but some were as young as 11. Yesterday former Detective Superintendent Mick Gradwell warned that research into the problem was being hampered by ‘political correctness and concerns about upsetting community cohesion’.

But Lancashire police denied a cover-up. Assistant Chief Constable Andy Rhodes said his officers were making significant progress in tackling child sex exploitation across Lancashire, regardless of the background of the culprits.

He added: ‘We recognise that in some areas the number of Asian offenders is disproportionate to the population and far from ignoring this, have been tackling the issue head on by working with the local communities, giving presentations to community forums and visiting mosques to raise awareness.’

It was reported yesterday that while most British sex offenders are lone white men, details of court cases in 13 towns showed that out of 56 men convicted of multiple offences of grooming girls for sex, 50 were Muslim, mostly of Pakistani heritage.

[undisputed 1,664]

Here we go

[BULLDOUG 199]

:no:

[the_stig 6,614]

Here we go

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[gnasher16 30,597]

Here we go

 

 

Whats that sposed to mean ? ignore it and pretend you never saw it ?.....or " here we go,we might now have to hear some truth " ?

[Ideation 8,216]

I know it's not the point but what kind of 11-15 yr old girl chows on some turkish guys knob for a large donner and chips?

[BULLDOUG 199]

I know it's not the point but what kind of 11-15 yr old girl chows on some turkish guys knob for a large donner and chips?

 

The kind that have been let down by the sytsem, a sytem hell bent on helping the scum who preyed on these girls.

[undisputed 1,664]

Here we go

 

 

Whats that sposed to mean ? ignore it and pretend you never saw it ?.....or " here we go,we might now have to hear some truth " ?

 

What have you seen? and I'm all for hearing the truth not the usual ramblings that come with these threads

[BULLDOUG 199]

Here we go

 

 

Whats that sposed to mean ? ignore it and pretend you never saw it ?.....or " here we go,we might now have to hear some truth " ?

 

What have you seen? and I'm all for hearing the truth not the usual ramblings that come with these threads

 

No offence mate but your the only pratt rambling on this one.

[shepp 2,285]

I know it's not the point but what kind of 11-15 yr old girl chows on some turkish guys knob for a large donner and chips?

 

It is definitely not the point.

It is for adults to look out for children like these not f**k and murder them!

Edited June 4, 2011 by shepp

[undisputed 1,664]

Here we go

 

 

Whats that sposed to mean ? ignore it and pretend you never saw it ?.....or " here we go,we might now have to hear some truth " ?

 

What have you seen? and I'm all for hearing the truth not the usual ramblings that come with these threads

 

No offence mate but your the only pratt rambling on this one.

 

No offence taken ....where have I rambled, was asked a question I answered it,,,anyway I'll bow out now and leave you all to it

[gnasher16 30,597]

What have you seen? and I'm all for hearing the truth not the usual ramblings that come with these threads

 

 

So your saying the above is a lie ?....because if your not and its the truth then surely you are as disgusted as the rest of us so what would be the reason to say " here we go again " like discussing the killing of children is boring if its already been discussed before !

[undisputed 1,664]

What have you seen? and I'm all for hearing the truth not the usual ramblings that come with these threads

 

 

So your saying the above is a lie ?....because if your not and its the truth then surely you are as disgusted as the rest of us so what would be the reason to say " here we go again " like discussing the killing of children is boring if its already been discussed before !

 

Don't be a muppet of course I don't condone what happened but you know as well as I do the way this is gonna go....I'll be very surprised if this stays on track...anyway as I said I'll leave you all to it.

[craigyboy 1,274]

I know it's not the point but what kind of 11-15 yr old girl chows on some turkish guys knob for a large donner and chips?

have you been to blackpool lately mate,and i dont mean the big one,its a fecking hellhole,who knows what vulnerable kids will do to get out of it

[Ideation 8,216]

All i meant was that it indicates a far larger issue with society. These kids are not your kids popping in to pick up some chips and getting whisked away, they are kids whose parents dont really know or care where they are and what they are up to. The guys who did it are sick. But try not to bring this down to some kind of barmy religious argument. The system is f****d