Britain’s Labour government came under pressure to act after Elon Musk reignited a decade-old scandal involving child sexual abuse mainly by men of Pakistani heritage.

A lorry driver has been jailed for two years after admitting making and distributing indecent images of children. Hedley Heddison, 54, of Eight Row, Eagle Moor near Lincoln, was caught after police became aware of sexualised conversations he had shared with another man on WhatsApp.

The British government says it will support a series of local inquiries into organized child sexual abuse in the wake of a furor largely stoked by the world’s richest man Elon Musk

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government will provide backing for local inquiries into child sexual abuse across the country, it said on Thursday after a decades-old grooming gangs scandal returned to the spotlight following criticism from billionaire Elon Musk.