To BBC Newsnight, where Deputy Chief Constable Becky Riggs – the national policing lead on child protection and abuse investigations – has hit back at claims by shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick about grooming gangs. Speaking on the programme last night, Riggs said it was ‘not true’ that these types of crimes are committed predominately by British Pakistani men – despite acknowledging that they are ‘overrepresented when you look at their share of the population’. So what is true?

Pakistani men are up to five times as likely to be responsible for child sex grooming offences than the general population

Well, Pakistani men are up to five times as likely to be responsible for child sex grooming offences than the general population, according to figures from the Hydrant Programme, w

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