Fear of being branded racist allowed 16 years of ‘appalling’ sexual abuse by Asian gangs of at least 1,400 children in one town, an inquiry found.

Council officials and social workers ‘tiptoed’ around the fact that ‘by far the majority’ of the victims – who were as young as 11 – were white, according to the Rotherham Abuse Inquiry.

The girls were gang-raped, doused in petrol and threatened with handguns by groups of men, before being ignored by the council and treated with ‘contempt’ by the police.

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