How British Grooming Gangs Targeted Sikh Girls
Survivors, activists, and experts explain how criminal networks targeted one community for decades — and why police failed to stop it.
On January 13, 2026, one video started going viral. A Sikh man bangs on the door of a Hounslow, West London flat: “Come out, you pervert!” Over 200 members of the British Sikh community were surrounding the apartment building. They wanted a teen Sikh girl, whom a man in his 30s has allegedly been grooming since she was 14, to return home. That man had even convinced her to leave her parents, Jaspal Singh Sandhu tells a police officer who arrived on the scene. By the end of the roughly three-minute video, police have arrested the man and helped reunite the girl with her family.
But Deepa Singh, the founder of Sikh Youth U.K. — an organization that helps Sikh families impacted by grooming gangs and was involved in this rescue — told The Juggernaut that this was only one of thousands of cases he has seen in the last 13 years. He shared how British Pakistani men have been grooming Sikh girls since at least the 1960s. The Juggernaut investigated, speaking to survivors, Hounslow police, experts, and many others about British grooming gangs and the horrific impact they have wrought. “It’s not an isolated incident,” Singh said.