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EXCLUSIVE The shocking protest groups that claim grooming gang trials are 'racist' and call victims 'dirty b******' READ MORE: Grooming gang rapist moans from prison that he is 'innocent' READ MORE: Yvette Cooper insists local inquiries into gangs WILL go ahead By AIDAN RADNEDGE Published: 19:59 EDT, 28 April 2025 | Updated: 19:59 EDT, 28 April 2025 e-mail View comments Protesters have been shown to be denouncing grooming gang trials as racist and using abusive terms to describe young girl victims. Phrases such as 'dirty b****es', 'lying b****es' and 'sick cow' have been aimed at abuse survivors - and shared during TikTok and WhatsApp chats, it has been revealed. The organiser of a group called Fighting For Fair Trials, who says many offenders have been wrongly imprisoned, has now condemned the derogatory phrases used by others in online chats.
But Samira Khan told MailOnline that supporters were justified in speaking out against girls and young women they feel have made up claims about alleged predators. She was speaking as a new Channel 4 documentary about Britain's grooming gangs - called Groomed: A National Scandal - includes testimony from five women telling of their ordeals. One video clip included in the programme due for broadcast on Wednesday shows her convicted rapist brother Irfan Khan complaining about being behind bars - saying it was 'unfair', although he was not heard calling women names.
Exchanges recorded from chats during TikTok livestreams include comments such as as 'The Rochdale thing is a lie. There was no grooming gangs.' One woman is heard saying, ' The judge was a number one idiot', before a man comments: ' The minute you've been charged, you're guilty.
' Irfan Khan, 37, from Batley, was last year sentenced to 12 years in prison, with a five-year extended licence, for three offences of rape and making threats to kill Footage of campaign group Fighting For Fair Trials features in a new Channel 4 documentary Grooming gang victims Chantelle (left) and Jade (right) have spoken out in a new Channel 4 documentary called Groomed: Another woman quoted says: 'People get less for murder. Most of these "victims" – not all of them again, most of them – are absolute liars.' Comments shown written in a private WhatsApp group accessed by the Channel 4 documentary makers include 'Accuser is not a victim', 'She's a known prostitute', 'Sick cow' and 'These lying b****es'.
Other remarks include 'Dirty stinking f***ing dog' and 'They talk s***'. Samira Khan, who leads the campaign group Fighting For Fair Trials, told MailOnline she disapproved of derogatory comments posted online. She said: 'The group has used abusive words online, I agree with that.
'The thing is, I can't be sat 24/7 on my phone going through what people are saying - I can't control what comes out of everyone's mouths. 'Just the way some of the victims are angry, what do you think these families are feeling - are they not allowed to show their emotions, say how they're feeling, if some of these girls are recruiting other girls to come forward?' Talking of grooming gang abuse, she added: 'I'm not saying it doesn't happen - it does happen and it shouldn't happen. The new Channel 4 documentary highlights derogatory comments made about abuse victims Campaigners have said that convicted offenders have been wrongly accused A phone call involving Irfan Khan was witnessed by documentary maker Anna Hall Channel 4 investigators saw messages shared in a private WhatsApp group Read More EXCLUSIVE Grooming gang rapist moans that he is 'innocent' and jailing of vile predators is 'really unfair' 'But there are a lot of men that are falsely convicted.
I know my brother is innocent. The group's TikTok page says it is aimed at 'Defending Those Wrongfully Accused Of Grooming', while its Facebook account bears the description: 'Raising awareness of the injustice and impartial investigations by the police in grooming allegations.' The TikTok page includes a post that has been watched more than 24,000 times and suggests some accusers are motivated by cash motives.
The text displayed on screen states: 'False allegations are far from "extremely rare". Advertising offering thousands of pounds if commonplace on social media. 'The police and courts only require one person’s account, classed as "hearsay" and inadmissible in most court proceedings, actual evidence is not necessary.
'Thousands of people every year have their lives destroyed because of a financial incentive.' Among those jailed is Samira Khan's brother Irfan Khan, 37, from Batley in West Yorkshire, who was last year sentenced to 12 years in prison, with a five-year extended licence, for three offences of rape and making threats to kill. He was part of a group of more than 20 sexual predators locked up last year for a total of 346 years after eight young girls in West Yorkshire were raped, abused and trafficked across 13 years.
This is one of the messages shared on the TikTok account of the campaign group Fighting For Fair Trials which says it is 'Defending Those Wrongfully Accused Of Grooming' These are among the comments posted below some of the campaign group's TikTok videos Read More EXCLUSIVE Interactive map reveals shocking extent of Asian grooming gangs across FORTY ONE UK towns The 24 men were arrested after West Yorkshire Police 's discovery of their years-long campaign of abuse, which has been described as 'abhorrent in the extreme'. Operation Tourway uncovered rape, sexual abuse and trafficking of eight girls in the North Kirklees area, including the towns of Batley and Dewsbury, between 1999 and 2012. His crimes are among those featured in the new Channel 4 documentary being broadcast this week about grooming gang victims and offenders across the UK.
The programme suggests that Irfan Khan could have broken prison rules by having a mobile phone - but his sister told MailOnline this was not the case. She said her brother had called her mobile from a prison landline, coincidentally at a time when she was taking part in the live broadcast and so he could be heard. Ms Khan is heard telling fellow viewers: 'Hey, my brother’s on the line – he wants to talk to you guys.
' After a fellow participant asks, 'Is that Irfan?', she replies: 'Yeah, he's on the phone.' Irfan Khan is then heard being asked by another man, 'How’re you doing, bro, you good?' Your browser does not support iframes. The convicted offender responds by saying: 'I'm all right, man – how are you? Read More Yvette Cooper insists local inquiries into grooming gangs WILL go ahead in five towns ‘Since I’ve been inside there's been so many come inside all of a sudden – it's been like a domino.
Half of Dewsbury’s inside. 'And it's really unfair – you know, it’s just unfair. I’ve done nothing wrong and I've sat here for 15 months.
' Ms Khan rejected Channel 4's suggestions that her brother could have breached prison rules, telling MailOnline: 'My brother didn't have a mobile phone. 'He called from a prison landline. He called me on my mobile phone.
I was online at the time - it was a coincidence. I told him I was on TikTok.' Police carrying out the Operation Tourway probe that resulted in Khan and others being jailed had begun arresting the men across the West Yorkshire area in November 2018.
They were all charged by December 2020 and began appearing in court on December 11 that year. The 24 men were sentenced as part of five trials at Leeds Crown Court between 2022 and 2024, with their identities and sentences revealed in April last year as reporting restrictions were lifted once all the cases had concluded. Some 24 men were jailed as part of West Yorkshire Police's Operation Tourway.
They committed a vile campaign of abuse over 13 years Read More EXCLUSIVE How men pursued me when I was nine - life in a town where grooming gangs operated in plain sight Channel 4 has said of its new documentary, scheduled for Wednesday evening, that it 'puts the experiences of five courageous women at the heart of a story that spans more than 20 years'. Two of those featured, named as Chantelle and Jade, have waived their anonymity as sexual abuse victims and been pictured on screen. Ministers have been facing calls this year - including from X's billionaire owner Elon Musk - for new inquiries into the handling of grooming gangs exposed across the country, in cases where the abusers were largely Asian men.
In January last year a report found young girls were 'left at the mercy' of paedophile grooming gangs for years in Rochdale due to failings by senior police and council bosses. The 173-page review covered 2004 to 2013 and described multiple failed investigations by Greater Manchester Police and apparent local authority indifference to the plight of hundreds of youngsters, mainly white girls from poor backgrounds, all identified as potential victims of abuse in Rochdale. Successive police operations were launched, but these were insufficiently resourced to match the scale of the widespread organised exploitation within the area.
The study followed reports by the same authors on grooming in Manchester and Oldham which found authorities had again failed children, leaving them vulnerable to paedophiles . The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse, which published its final report in 2022, described the sexual abuse of children as an 'epidemic that leaves tens of thousands of victims in its poisonous wake'. A TikTok livestream in which convicted rapist Irfan Khan, from Batley in West Yorkshire, is heard complaining about his jailing features in a new Channel 4 documentary Separately, a Home Office study published in 2020 found child sexual abuse gangs were most commonly made up of white men .
The Home Office told the new Channel 4 documentary makers: 'The grooming scandal was one of the greatest failures in our country's history. 'We have commissioned a rapid national audit to uncover the true scale of grooming gangs in the UK, including looking at ethnicity.' Groomed: A National Scandal is scheduled to air on Wednesday 30 April at 9pm on Channel 4.
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