Rotherham abuse prisoner found guilty of raping another teenager Sageer Hussain, 39, was one of three men found guilty of rape at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2025
Surrey engineer jailed for 15 months for ‘vile’ post after Southport murders Joseph Haythorne from Ashford made comment on X as violence was breaking out at asylum hotel near Rotherham The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2025
Man jailed for 15 months after ‘burn hotels’ social media post during riots Joseph Haythorne posted the comment in August 2024 just as violence erupted outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in South Yorkshire. Evening Standard · Jul 2, 2025
What is the new grooming gangs inquiry going to do after the Casey report? A full statutory inquiry into UK grooming gangs will soon begin work The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2025
Liberty Steel’s South Yorkshire operations lost £340m in four years Exclusive: court documents lay bare crisis at Sanjeev Gupta’s steelworks as it struggles to find buyers in face of looming liquidation The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2025
Liberty Steel has not produced anything at two key plants since July 2024 Lack of work at Rotherham and Motherwell sites highlights financial crisis at UK’s third-biggest steel producer The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2025
Three men charged with rape of teenage girl in Rotherham The alleged victim was aged 14 or 15 when the offences are said to have taken place between 2007 and 2010. The Independent UK · May 19, 2025
Andrew Norfolk obituary Journalist whose dogged reporting of grooming gangs in the north of England led to a public inquiry and changes in the law The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2025
Andrew Norfolk: Times reporter who exposed Rotherham grooming scandal dies aged 60 The PM paid tribute to a journalist ‘driven by desire to call our attention to injustice’ Evening Standard · May 15, 2025
Man arrested on suspicion of murder after body found in river Officers attended a river near Treeton Lane in Rotherham on Saturday where the man’s body was found. Evening Standard · May 11, 2025
MPs Shout 'Shame!' After Reform UK Member Alleges Labour Minister Covered Up Grooming Gang Abuses On Monday, Reform UK MP Lee Anderson accused Jess Phillips of partaking in the cover-up of the grooming gang members responsible for the Rotherham child trafficking ring. International Business Times UK · May 1, 2025
Cyclist, 81, dies after ‘hit and run’ involving car The fatal crash happened on the A57 in Todwick, near Rotherham, on Friday. Evening Standard · Apr 6, 2025
Third ex-police officer arrested in Rotherham child sexual exploitation inquiry Former officer with South Yorkshire force arrested on suspicion of raping teenage girl in 2004 The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2025
Brothers jailed for raping teenagers in Rotherham Mark and Robert Evans befriended the girls, one as young as 13, in the South Yorkshire town almost two decades ago. The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2025
Evening Standard · Mar 5, 2025 Labour MP says Starmer ‘taking the axe’ to UK’s aid budget to fund defence Labour MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion also said a ‘scandalously large amount of ODA’ had been spent ‘on domestic refugee costs’.
The Independent UK · Mar 5, 2025 Rotherham rapists jailed for grooming girls who were ‘vulnerable in the extreme’ The pair inflicted ‘severe psychological harm’ to their victims, judge says
The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2025 Two men are found guilty of raping teenage girls in Rotherham Romulad Stefan Houphouet, 37, and Absolom Sigiyo, 41, targeted two victims while they were living in a children’s home
The Independent UK · Feb 26, 2025 Watch father-of-two’s bizarre destruction spree during Yorkshire riots This is the moment a balaclava-wearing father-of-two fuelled a fire outside a hotel housing asylum-seekers.
International Business Times · Feb 3, 2025 'Life's Ruined': UK Town Broken By Grooming Gangs Wants Answers Once famed as an industrial powerhouse that produced some of the world's finest steel, Rotherham is now known as the epicentre of the UK grooming scandal, leaving the town angry, ashamed and needing answers.
The Independent UK · Jan 20, 2025 How misinformation about the Southport murders sparked violent race riots across the country Axel Rudakubana, then 17, unleashed an attack on 30 July during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class – in the chaotic hours following the incident, misinformation began spreading online
The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2025 Dead Before They Wake review – brutal grooming-gang thriller marries mawkishness and bloodlust Seemingly inspired by the Rotherham child rape scandal, Nathan Shepka’s film has both a streak of sentimentality and an appetite for violence
Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2025 Rioter told he has ‘utterly wrecked his life’ as he is jailed for three years John Webster, 41, was a ‘prominent participant’ in the confrontations between rioters and police outside the Holiday Inn Express, in Rotherham.
The Conversation · Jan 15, 2025 I work with abuse survivors in Rotherham – the current discussion about grooming gangs risks retraumatising them Survivors of sexual abuse in the UK are, sadly, all too familiar with the feeling of being exploited for the gain of others.
The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2025 Pensioner uses pair of jeans to fight off masked laundromat robber An elderly man fought off a masked robber using only a pair of jeans inside a launderette in Maltby, Rotherham, dramatic CCTV footage shows.
The Conversation · Jan 14, 2025 Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women Across the 2000s, a series of child sex exploitation cases affected British towns, including Telford, Rochdale, Oxford and Rotherham, scarring the lives of hundreds of children. In 2011, Times journalist Andrew Norfolk reported that networks – so-called “grooming gangs” – of largely British Asian men of Pakistani heritage had trafficked…