Edge of the City (2004 film)

One involved a child sex abuse ring in Keighley, in which the perpetrators were mainly British Asian and the victims white.

[2] The fourth case involved two white mothers in Keighley who reported that their daughters were victims of a child sex abuse ring, mostly comprising British Asian men.

West Yorkshire Police warned Channel 4 that the film could provoke racial violence in Bradford, which had experienced race riots in 2001.

Channel 4, which according to The Guardian "normally takes great pride in its reputation for stirring up controversy", postponed the broadcast due to "exceptional circumstances".

[2] Casciani called Omar Sheikh's interaction with teenage recidivist Matthew "compelling human drama", and recommended that the four cases in the film be made into four separate documentaries.

[1] Mark Lawson of The Guardian wrote that "There can never previously have been a documentary about a city in peacetime in a leading industrial democracy that consisted of such unrelenting bleakness", adding that the main danger would be the film prompting "suicidal despair", rather than racial animosity.

[3] The Church Times called the documentary a "modern Calvary, an image of hope beyond suffering", and pointed out the efforts by Omar Sheikh to reform Matthew as evidence that the film was not racist.

[9] Writing in 2025, Kenan Malik argued that Hall and other women had been bringing attention to child grooming for decades, in response to academic Matthew Goodwin's assertion that the issue was not in the media until 2011.