{"id":752099,"date":"2026-08-28T03:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752099\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T03:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:56:17","slug":"grooming-gang-abusers-linked-to-national-networks-of-organised-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752099\/","title":{"rendered":"Grooming gang abusers linked to national networks of organised crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grooming gang offenders are connected to over 100 convicted organised criminals across the country, new research has revealed.<\/p>\n

Independent researchers have uncovered well over 4,000 connections between grooming gang abusers, gangs, families, and notable individuals, including politicians, state employees and businesses.<\/p>\n

The research, the first of its kind, has uncovered 99 gangs involving 68 families.<\/p>\n

The Network Map has published details of criminal links between grooming offenders, including the Ilyas family in Sheffield.<\/p>\n

GB News first revealed earlier this year that a grooming gang offender convicted alongside two of his brothers had wider links to criminality.<\/p>\n

Amar Ilyas, who was nicknamed \u201cKiller\u201d, was stabbed in the head by an organised criminal who was later convicted of drug offences.<\/p>\n

Detectives in South Yorkshire reviewed the stabbing in relation to a separate shooting in Sheffield.<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Channel also revealed<\/a> that Amar Ilyas had also been a Labour candidate.<\/p>\n

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The full map published by Network Map<\/p>\n

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Network Map<\/p>\n

The map also reveals 87 instances of victims being trafficked or perpetrators travelling across the country to carry out abuse. <\/p>\n

The Network Map displays 52 routes that the abusers used.<\/p>\n

The thesis that the grooming gangs scandal is a nationwide issue has been championed by The People\u2019s Channel, with GB News exposing new areas where abuse has taken place, from the south of England to Scotland.<\/p>\n

GB News has also revealed the links between grooming gang abusers and organised crime, particularly the drugs trade and in protection rackets.<\/p>\n

That assessment has been reaffirmed by this comprehensive research, which has demonstrated widespread criminal links.<\/p>\n

The research has been published as the independent national inquiry into grooming gangs prepares to start investigating its first three areas, which includes London, Bradford and Keighley, and Oldham.<\/p>\n

It is understood that GB News reporting on trafficking links between Bradford and London influenced the inquiry\u2019s decision to select those areas.<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Channel had previously revealed that the former safeguarding minister Jess Phillips had rejected a request from Oldham Council for a Government-led inquiry into the town.<\/p>\n

The revelation sparked outrage from Elon Musk and critics of the Labour Government.<\/p>\n

The inquiry was recommended by Baroness Louise Casey after a government-commissioned audit found there was an “appalling lack of data on ethnicity in crime recording”.<\/p>\n

Casey\u2019s report, which included a damning chapter titled \u201cDenial\u201d, outlined how the gangs crisis still had not been confronted nationally.<\/p>\n

Following reports of grooming gang activity in Scotland after a brave survivor spoke to GB News, the Scottish Government also announced its own review.<\/p>\n

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GB News looks at the network across the north of England<\/p>\n

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NETWORK MAP<\/p>\n

Some of the networks exposed include abusers who targeted campaigning Bradford survivor Fiona Goddard.<\/p>\n

Parvaze Ahmed is one of Fiona\u2019s abusers and was a known drug dealer with previous convictions for possession of heroin with intent to supply and possession of crack cocaine with intent to supply.<\/p>\n

In transcripts for Fiona’s trial, the court heard that Ahmed is the brother-in-law of “drugs baron” Khalid Malik and uncle of Fahim Iqbal, another abuser who was recently jailed for a machete attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grooming gang offenders are connected to over 100 convicted organised criminals across the country, new research has revealed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}