Nazir Afzal, the former chief crown prosecutor in the north-west, who brought prosecutions over the Rochdale grooming gangs, welcomed the report. “It confirms that white men remain the most common offenders, which is something rarely mentioned by rightwing commentators,” he said..
I thought it significant that Nazir, as former prosecutor of the case, agrees with the findings. Thomas can say what he likes but he hasn't a shred of evidence to say otherwise. Normally I would rely on the statistics to resolve. However this evidence may be fragmentary - as was said in the particle.