Paging Wilkie Collins

England is rapidly become something a parody of The Strand Magazine with a drunken bishop, a strangler roaming Ipswich and now reports of a growing White Slave trade.

A major investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of young white girls by predominantly Asian men has been launched by police and childcare agencies.

So far detectives in Oldham, Greater Manchester, have arrested 20 men, five of whom have been charged with offences that include abduction and rape. However, police expect other suspects to be held in the coming weeks.
The phenomenon appears to be largely cultural, with mainly young Asian men allegedly preying on vulnerable girls they meet in and around the town centre.

Police suspect the victims – some of them as young as 12, the rest up to the age of 17 – are being groomed over a period of months and sometimes years.

All we need now is a little fog and an opium den or two.