Eleven men were convicted of rape and a twelfth of sexual activity in a trial in Bradford. The victim was aged thirteen when she was first raped and abused repeatedly by the men. Mr Justice Thomas QC told them, ‘The attitudes that you demonstrated to these proceedings have been contemptuous, disrespectful and arrogant on a scale I have hardly seen in many years of criminal law practice.’ Some say that the fact that the victim was white and non-Muslim was a factor in her abuse; the ringleader of the rapists saw her as ‘a little white slag.’ That label would probably go some way to buying the Muslim community’s silence regarding the gang’s actions. Rather than risk the wrath of their fellow-Muslims and being reported to the police for abusing a Muslim girl, the victim’s race and religion was of significance in them choosing her.