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The Winston Marshall Show

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

The Winston Marshall Show

Winston Marshall

Society & Culture

4.8663 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to The Winston Marshall Show with me, Winston Marshall.

0:03.5

I sat down with investigative journalist Zach Garner Perkins for a deep dive, a close look at all he has uncovered with regards the grooming gangs,

0:13.5

but more specifically the London grooming gang scandal, which has taken a massive turn in the last week. As well as looking at the new

0:23.5

horrors that he has uncovered, with this story, we also look at what he is uncovered with regards

0:29.2

to illegal migrant gangs operating in northern France and illegal immigration across the channel.

0:36.8

But perhaps most horrifying of all,

0:39.1

and there's some stiff competition in this conversation,

0:41.6

is what is uncovered with regards to the use of food app delivery services

0:46.7

in Britain by illegal immigrants at the behest of gags.

0:51.2

Before you hear from Zach, I just wanted to highlight

0:53.3

that if you head over to

0:54.3

Winston-martial.co.uk, not only will you enjoy ad-free viewing and listening, but you'll also

1:00.4

get exclusive content. And this case, it is an extended conversation between me and Zach, where he

1:05.9

explores the other great story he has uncovered, which is the Roma gangs operating around London.

1:12.7

That's all at Winston-Marshal.com.uk.

1:17.4

But without further ado, Zach Garner Perkis.

1:21.9

Zach Garner Perkis, welcome to the show.

1:25.4

Just to frame this in the ongoing grooming gang scandal, which has been

1:30.2

going on for decades, up and down the country, everywhere from Rotherham, Telford, Birmingham, Oxford,

1:37.7

up to Edinburgh, Bristol, to Newcastle, over 50 cities, as reported by a great journalist like

1:43.1

Charlie Peters, and with hundreds of

1:46.5

thousands of girls, some reporting, some reporting even higher than that at the sort of mercy of these

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