The headline read: Gang of Asian men weep as they are jailed for total of 32 years for abusing white girls as young as 12
The online comments (193 when I looked) are foul, absolutely full of racist abuse.
That these men should be punished, and punished severely is beyond doubt.
However before my fellow ethnics get too carried away I would want to remind them that that one of the most horrific child abuse gangs, that led by Sidney Cooke (pictured), consisted entirely of white middle aged Englishmen.
I particualarly recall the death of Jason Swift at their hands as he was murdered on a housing estate near my home in Hackney. Cooke was living on "the mead" when I was a teenager. Perhaps I could have been a victim. I reiterate: Cooke was white.
