Back in 2016, I first became aware of the allegations about a possible Islamic Rape Gang situation occurring in the Cumbrian town of Barrow in Furness. You can read the original 2016 article here, but to precis the piece this is what a girl claiming to be an Islamic Rape Gang survivor has said happened back then.

I quoted a piece from Shariah Watch which is run by the anti Islam campaigner Anne-Marie Waters, now of the For Britain party and in this piece Ms Waters alleges that a then 15 year old girl Ellie Reynolds had no joy from Cumbria police when she reported suspicious behaviour from a group of Turkish looking men. Ms Reynolds alleged that the men were ordering her to get in their car with them while she was out walking with a 13 year old female friend.

What got me worried about the situation in Cumbria at the time was the behaviour of Cumbria police. There are inconsistencies in how they have conducted themselves in this case. They didn’t seem to make any proper attempt to contact the complainant or their family and told the local press that the complainant had ‘withdrawn their complaint’, which the complainant and her family deny is the case. There are also allegedly photographs taken by Ms Reynolds of the Turks in the car which also is said to show the car’s registration number, but no attempt was said to have been made by Cumbria police at the time to examine them. A friend of the family named in Ms Waters’ piece as Theresa McMeekin, also contacted police as she was said to have copies of the photos but again the police were not interested. Ms McMeekin then published the photos on Facebook only to be attacked, presumably by various Leftists, for ‘racism’.

In her 2016 piece as quoted on this site, Anne-Marie Waters said:

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.

The police’s alleged behaviour to Ms McMeekin does at least suggest that they are not that keen on highlighting potential abusers when they come from a particular cultural or religious group. They gave Ms McMeekin, generalised and if I may say it, bland, advice on ‘stranger danger’.

In my article about the 2016 case I voiced my suspicions that Cumbria police seem rather overly keen on playing this issue and these allegations down, even to the extent of dissuading local reporters from following up the story. The behaviour of the police in this case seemed both odd and let’s be frank here, a bit suspect.

Fast forward to today, nearly four years later and this case has erupted into the public eye again. Cumbria Police claim that they’ve investigated the case of Ms Reynolds’ allegations and have found no evidence of abuse. They have also arrested and charged a 19 year old woman,  with ‘making false claims and perverting the course of justice’. the woman made claims that a group of Muslims have trafficked her for sex and have done her great physical injuries photos of which she published on her Facebook page. She was then rearrested by Cumbria Police for allegedly breaching her bail conditions by publishing pictures of her injuries and remanded in custody.

Whilst it would be foolish to deny that false allegations do not happen, both the Carl Beech case from the United Kingdom and the Brett Kavanaugh case from the United States should make us realise that sometimes people do make up sexual assault and rape claims. Sometimes those who make false claims do so for the attention they get or because they are inveterate and incorrigible fantasists, as was the case with Carl Beech, or for political reasons, as we saw with the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh. Sexual abuse allegations are tricky, they are often little more than ‘he said she said’ cases and there is often little in the way of solid as opposed to circumstantial evidence to underpin them. However, it also cannot be denied that many British police forces have ‘form’ for hiding or not sufficiently investigating Islamic sex crime. This may be changing in some police forces and Islamic Rape Gangs are starting to be being brought to justice, but we cannot completely discount the possibility that Cumbria police may not have investigated the Islamic Rape Gang allegations in their area as thoroughly or with sufficient senior officer backing, as they should have done.

This is one of those situations where it is difficult to know who is telling the truth. Is it the alleged victim or is it the police? This is a particularly tricky case and one where I need to tread carefully and only use information that has already been put into the public arena. Ultimately this is a matter for the courts to decide whether or not there has been a perversion of justice here although I would also have liked to see the original allegations tested in a court as well.

But despite the various reporting restrictions on this case and the police saying that there is no case of sexual abuse to answer because they have found no evidence, local anger about alleged Islamic Rape Gangs in the area has not gone away. In fact anger in the area seems to have grown with demonstrations taking place in the town in support of alleged grooming gang victims, against how the local press has reported this story and against the police. The situation in Barrow is said to be extremely tense and the local Conservative MP Simon Fell has described the atmosphere in Barrow to the Guardian newspaper as ‘a tinderbox’. The Guardian added that there have been death threats made against takeaway shop owners after gossip circulated around that they were involved in abuse. The owners of these shops have made it clear that they were not involved in anything of the sort and a thirty year old man was arrested and released pending further investigation for making threats to kill.  It should go without saying but I will say it anyway just for the avoidance of doubt, that I heartily and completely disapprove of dishing out death threats. Our problems, including those with violent ideologies and with sex crime should be sorted out via the courts and via the political arena.

One interesting thing about the issue of the girl who has been remanded in custody for allegedly making a false allegation is that she is being backed up by Maggie Oliver. Ms Oliver is a former detective who first came to prominence when she blew the whistle on how Greater Manchester Police had failed to properly investigate or prosecute those involved in alleged Islamic Rape Gang activities. This involvement by Ms Oliver does give some credibility to complaints that Cumbria Police are trying to keep a lid on a tense situation by possibly ‘blaming the victim’ as she said on a Tweet dated 21st May 2020. Others on Social Media such as a feminist businesswoman called Ms Jo, have also waded in in support of the gaoled girl. There are people with some credibility in the area of support for grooming gang survivors and those who counter Islam getting on board with this case and this is giving substance to the complaints against Cumbria Police. For example I am neither a supporter of a member of Anne-Marie Waters For Britain party, as I dislike their brand of authoritarian secularism, but I do respect her credibility when it comes to criticisms of the ideology of Islam. Her involvement in the initial complaints against Cumbria Police back in 2016 does put these early complaints above the area of mere gossip.

Even though the police have said that they have found no evidence in one of the cases of alleged abuse, local people are not taking the police at their word. A Facebook post by Ellie Reynolds, which I will paste here in full just in case it disappears (I already have screenshots) backs up the allegations and she claims that over 50 girls in the area who reported abuse were told to ‘keep quiet and wait’ by the police.

Ms Reynolds said:

Feel free to share. X
EDIT: FEEL FREE TO SHARE MY “#JUSTICEFORTHEGIRLS” PHOTO ALL OVER. WE WONT BE SILENCED.
EDIT: may I add the article that is the “Barrow girl ignored”, was published in 2015. And is also my story if anyone would like to also share that. As yet again, it was ignored🥺
Seen as though the mail want to publish false information. I’ll publish information in black and white. As a survivor.
The girl who shared her story. Is absolutely NO liar. Infact, she’s shared her story for not one, but over 50 of us girls who were told to “keep quiet and wait” all along.
I escaped these people 2 and a half years ago, I had nothing. I was numb. I hurt. I suffer with severe PTSD from these, I cried for help to authorities thinking that they’d help me. For them to just turn a blind eye. I escaped drugged out of my face by these guys, not one time, not two times, not even the amount of times you could count on both your hands together. Every time we had evidence. Hell, the police even collected me from their premises’s a number of times too, even taking me into custody for my own safety due to me being so out of it. I can’t talk about my story on here, I can’t type it. I can only speak it because it simply is too long. There’s 5 years worth of this stuff.
Anyway, my point of this post. Is this:
I have just seen the article on the fact authorities are denying any knowledge of a grooming gang round our area. That’s so so not true. Speaking from now 5 years of experience- 3 as a victim, 2 as a survivor. THEYRE LYING.
So basically, the police shrugged me off, basically told my family I was nuts. Until an NRM came to light. An NRM is a NATIONAL REFERRAL MECHANISM. They specialise in human trafficking. They can give you a result, a negative, meaning they can’t see beyond reasonable doubt why you weren’t believed, a positive meaning beyond reasonable grounds they believe the police shouldn’t have shrugged you off. The EMAIL in these photos attached is Infact my NRM, and the “our decision” part was EXACTLY WHAT APPARENTLY ISNT AROUND HERE!? HOW?
The other attachments are of them trying to make false accounts, 2 years later ( recieved these in January) admitting what they had done to me to STILL try to terrorise me.
YOU ASK WHY THE VICTIMS CANT JUST “ ring the police” OR “just get away”
#JUSTICEFORTHEGIRLS

The post by Ms Reynolds constitutes not just backing for those girls who have been called ‘liars’ by the police and other authorities, but also constitutes an allegation that Cumbria Police have done little or nothing to investigate allegations of Islamic Rape Gang activity in the county. Some credibility for the allegations of failure to properly investigate these crimes comes from a 2012 article in the Daily Mail. This Daily Mail article quoted a judge in a sexual abuse case who criticised Cumbria police for failing to seize opportunities to stop the activities of a paedophile Muslim takeaway owner, Azad Miah from Carlisle who was gaoled for 15 years paying underage girls for sex and trying to entice others into prostitution.

Whether all or some of the allegations made about Islamic Rape Gang activity in Cumbria are true or false is extremely difficult to tell. I’ve tried to be fair to all in this article but it is difficult to shake the feeling that the police have not properly investigated all the claims that have been made. Their failure to stop a Muslim paedophile in 2012, coupled with those making allegations about abuse who will not go away despite threats and alleged harassment from the police makes me wonder if Cumbria Police have been operating a similar cover up of Islamic Rape Gang activity as was operated by South Yorkshire Police in Rotherham?

What seems to be incontrovertible is that there is something rotten in both Barrow in Furness, the local political establishment and with Cumbria Police. It should not be forgotten that up until December 2019 when we had the General Election, Barrow had had a Labour MP since 1992 and that the local council has been solidly Labour since the local council was established in 1973. This solid Labour control puts it in a similar category to many of the other local authorities that have seen Islamic Rape Gang activity in their areas and also where local authorities have failed to properly protect children and young people from predation by these gangs often under the guise of ‘not being racist’. It is quite possible that what may have been the case in other councils, where left wingers failed to criticise or move against those who they class as a protected group, members of the Islamic community, has also occurred in Barrow.

Cumbria Police, the local authority and the local press, seem to be coming out of this scandal with severely impaired reputations. The local authority is coming out of this badly because there seems to have been little if anything done by them to protect girls and young women from alleged predation by Islamic Rape Gangs. The image of the local press has been damaged by claims that they are running scared of important local political interests and reporting this in a bland manner. But it’s important to remember that ALL local papers live over the shop when it comes to their stories and are much more vulnerable than the national press to being ‘leaned on’ by powerful local political and business interests to spike certain stories.  This is because local journos live with their stories whereas national ones just parachute in, cover the story and then go away again and rarely have to live alongside the consequences of their reporting.

However the entity that has come off the worst in this situation is Cumbria Police themselves. They’ve been accused of all manner of mismanagement and malfeasance such as victim blaming and failure to properly investigate alleged Islamic Rape Gang activity. Cumbria Police are sitting atop a festering boil that is from what I can see mainly of their own making. If the allegations are correct that they have failed to properly carry out investigations when members of certain groups are accused of misconduct or crime, then they need to lance this boil as soon as possible in order to get public confidence back. They could do this by thoroughly investigating, preferably with the assistance of officers from outside their area, all complaints of this nature and properly communicating with the public their actions with regards to these crimes and alleged crimes. Sadly, from what I’ve seen so far, Cumbria Police are going to try to tough this one out, try to discredit those who have made complaints and generally ‘not mention the Islam’ in any way shape or form. I would hope that Cumbria Police start to properly investigate these alleged crimes and be transparent with the public who pay their wages, although I will not hold my breath waiting for this to happen.