Zak Garner-Purkis - ‘It’s Much Worse Than We Knew’ Inside the London Grooming Gang Scandal and Delivery App Black Market

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Nov 4, 2025

Zak Garner-Purkis, an investigative journalist, sheds light on the London grooming gang scandal and the dark underbelly of delivery app black market work. He reveals shocking evidence of ignored grooming gang victims by authorities, including Sadiq Khan. Zak discusses the political motivations behind the cover-up and how survivors have been silenced. He also shares insights from migrant camps in France, detailing trafficking networks that exploit vulnerable individuals for labor in gig economy jobs, connecting these issues to a broader national crisis.

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Grooming Evidence Hid In Plain Sight

Evidence of London grooming-style group sexual exploitation was present in public inspector case studies long before recent headlines.
Zak Garner-Purkis and Maggie Oliver found multiple case studies that match the familiar grooming-gang pattern.

INSIGHT

County Lines Framing Masked Sexual Exploitation

'County lines' and child criminal exploitation framing shifted focus away from recognising sexual grooming victims.
Zak warns conflating crime types obscured sexual exploitation priorities and responses.

ANECDOTE

Hotel Exploitation Near Heathrow

A 2017 frontline worker repeatedly reported underage girls being kept in a Hounslow hotel and sold to men, yet officials ignored it.
Local social media commenters later wrote they 'knew something was going on' near Heathrow.

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In this episode of The Winston Marshall Show, I sit down with investigative journalist Zak Garner-Purkis for a shocking exposé on the London grooming gang cover-up that Sadiq Khan denied for years — and the Metropolitan Police’s sudden admission that they are now reviewing 9,000 potential cases of group-based child sexual exploitation across the capital.

Zak explains how his investigation uncovered official reports personally read and signed off by Sadiq Khan containing evidence of grooming gang victims — evidence that was ignored, downplayed, and hidden in plain sight. He reveals how political correctness, bureaucratic definitions, and media cowardice allowed predators to operate with impunity in London while authorities claimed the problem didn’t exist.

We discuss the failures of the Met, the political motivations behind the cover-up, and why survivors have been made invisible by those meant to protect them. Zak also shares his reporting from the French migrant camps, exposing how criminal networks traffic people across the Channel and why Britain’s border crisis and child exploitation scandal are deeply connected — symptoms of a nation unwilling to confront uncomfortable truths.

All this — London’s hidden grooming gangs, Sadiq Khan’s denials, the Met Police’s reversal, and Britain’s moral collapse.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:48 Sadiq Khan's Denial and Zak’s Investigation

06:14 Discovery of Grooming Gang Victims

14:23 County Lines and Child Criminal Exploitation

21:35 Historical and Current Findings

23:46 Police and Political Responses

46:54 Illegal Immigration and Trafficking

59:54 Impact on Local Communities

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