Editor’s Note: An update to this story taking into account recent 2020 developments can be found via the link below:
There was once a time when Britain’s police were considered by many to be, if not to be completely honest and trustworthy, but at least partially so. This I’m afraid is no longer the case. A person could report a crime to the police and even if the culprits were not caught and prosecuted at least the person would know that the police wouldn’t shove the matter under the carpet because the alleged offender belonged to a favoured religious or cultural group. This is also not the case any more.
The writer and campaigner Anne-Marie Waters has written up a most horrifying story of police indifference to Islamic Grooming Gangs that are alleged to be operating in the town of Barrow-in-Furness in the North West of England. Girls as young as 13 are being approached by ‘Turkish-looking men’ and ordered to ‘get in cars’ with them. These girls have told Ms Waters that they are not the only ones that this is happening to and that other girls in the area have had similar experiences.
Here’s an excerpt from Ms Water’s piece on this worrying matter from her website Shariah Watch.
Ms Waters said:
In August, two young friends from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, were walking through the town when a group of men pulled up alongside them and ordered them to “get in the car”. I recently spoke to one of the girls, 15 year old Ellie Reynolds, who despite having reported the incident to police, had had no contact from them when I met her on December 5th. She also told me she is almost certain that the same has happened to other girls in the town since then.
It wasn’t only one car either. Phone-calls were made and more arrived. Ellie took photographs of some of these cars, but the police, when I interviewed her, had still not looked at them. Part of the description of the men provided by Ellie: “like Turks”.
The details of the story are these.
On the 8th of August, Ellie and a 13 year old friend were walking through Barrow-in-Furness, close to their home. A silver car pulled up alongside them and the men inside shouted at them to get in. When they refused, one of them said Ellie’s name and told her he “had her details anyway”. She had never seen these men before and had no idea who they were, nor had her friend. Understandably very shaken by this, she suggested to me that its possible that girls are being sought out on social media sites. She and her friends are avid Facebookers so yes, it’s possible.
Both girls’ families reported the incident to police on the day it happened. I did not speak to the 13 year old girl, but Ellie had still not heard from them in December, despite chasing several times. Police told the Reynolds family that they had called to the house to find nobody home, but no note was left and there was no attempt to contact them either before or after this supposed visit.
Theresa McMeekin is a friend of the family and said that she too had phoned the police saying she had copies of the photos and asking if they wanted to see them. She said they told her that as she wasn’t directly connected to the case, she could not report it. On hearing this, the Reynolds’ contacted police again and were told they would be visited – they weren’t.
McMeekin posted details about it on her Facebook page, only to find out later that the post hadn’t been made public. Ellie also wrote about it on Facebook to warn her friends. She soon found herself attacked for “racism”. She told me “it was like I was the one in the wrong for reporting it”.
Theresa McMeekin has a young daughter soon starting secondary school, and police were kind enough to advise her that she should warn her daughter of “stranger danger generally” without mentioning any ethnicity. They are on the ball on some matters then.
When local journalist Peter Storry contacted Barrow police to follow up on Ellie’s complaint, he was told “The victim did not wish to pursue the complaint further”. Ellie Reynolds said this is completely untrue. She was still waiting for them to contact her.
Read the rest of this excellent and worrying piece from Ms Waters via the link below.
http://www.annemariewaters.org/police-in-barrow-in-furness-ignored-possible-grooming-gang-complaint/
Having read through the piece by Ms Waters it seems likely to me that not only is Barrow-in-Furness likely to have an Islamic Grooming Gang problem but that Cumbria Police, like all too many other police forces across the nation are trying to play down and bury the problem. The police there seem to be doing their utmost to dissuade journalists from following up the story even it is alleged, going to the extent of telling blatant lies to these reporters.
Also as in other cases elsewhere we have the phenomenon of those warning about this problem being attacked as ‘racists’ along with posts telling others of their experiences with potential Muslim sex offenders removed from social media. This particular case, along with a great many others, is causing a considerable and justifiable lack of trust of the police to grow in the area.
As Ms Waters says later in her piece, this sort of problem could be easily sorted out by ‘common sense and impartial policing’ but this type of policing doesn’t seem to be what Cumbria Police are offering. What the residents of Barrow-in-Furness do seem to get is yet more of the same politically correct cover ups of a problem that should have been sorted out decades ago. Shame on Cumbria Police for their inaction and their dishonesty over this particular case and the many others that may well be occurring in their force area.
