Julie Bindel republishes her 2004 report on the unsolved disappearance of Charlene Downes. It’s a grim read – both in terms of the endemic sexual exploitation of young girls in places like Blackpool, but also in the determination of the liberal press and the authorities to suppress all such stories.
Over the 20+ years I have been researching the Pakistani Muslim dominated rape gangs, I found that I was blocked by the white liberals, in health, social work, and other professions that might encounter the victims. Those that were the most open and keen to speak, were people from Pakistani Muslim groups that wanted to sort this problem out.
I’ve decided to publish the long read below, which as I say was first written in 2004. Charlene is still missing. Nobody has been convicted of her murder….
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