British Sikhs rescue schoolgirl from flat, say she was groomed by Afghan man

LONDON: Around 200 Sikh men and women surrounded a assembly level successful Hounslow connected Sunday nighttime wherever they said a 34-year-old Afghan antheral was grooming a 16-year-old Sikh girl.The parents of the schoolgirl had approached a gurdwara successful Slough seeking assistance arsenic they were frantically disquieted astir their daughter, who had near location to unrecorded with the man.

She had been gathering the antheral since the property of 14 oregon 15 and had been groomed, the protesters said.A video connected Instagram shows 1 of the Sikh men confronting the antheral connected the stairs and accusing him of being a paedophile. He said, “You brainwashed and manipulated her. This isn’t Afghanistan, this is England. Why can’t you find idiosyncratic of your ain age?”He accused the Afghan of keeping the miss successful his level from 5 americium to 10 p.m. with 5 oregon six different men.

The Afghan antheral replied helium was successful emotion with the miss and said helium didn’t cognize her age.A neighbour said she had seen galore underage girls spell into the Afghan’s level implicit 9 years and said she had told the constabulary galore times. “There are astir 4 guys successful there,” she said. “It’s disgusting.” The level has been raided for drugs and is adjacent a school.Sikhs stood extracurricular shouting ”Pedos out”. One shouted: “The parents person gone to the constabulary galore times and thing is being done.

Why is this happening successful the UK 2026? The constabulary are turning a unsighted eye.”Jaspal Singh of the radical Shere Panjab is seen successful 1 video bashing connected the man’s doorway and a assemblage of Sikh men down him outcry “paedophile” and “pervert”.Eventually the constabulary were called and the antheral was taken distant successful a constabulary van and the miss went backmost to her family, who were portion of the demonstration.Jaspal said: “Why is it that Sikhs had to enactment a halt to this erstwhile constabulary couldn’t? This is disgraceful. We are doing the police’s job. The Sikh assemblage has been dealing with this for galore years and we person had enough.”Sikh Youth UK has present launched a nationalist enquiry into Sikh victims of grooming gangs.The Met constabulary was yet to respond to TOI’s query astatine the clip if going to press.