Outrage as “white British master” rapist John Ashby avoids front pages

Journalist Sangita Myska and former First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf were among those enraged by the rape and Islamophobic abuse of a Sikh woman, whom her white supremacist attacker, John Ashby, wrongly assumed to be Muslim, as well as the lack of mainstream accountability for him.

John Ashby: where’s the coverage?

Yousaf said the attack in Walsall, which took place last year, did not happen in a vacuum, arguing that this is what happens when hate is mainstreamed and when “cowards in suits pretend their words have no consequences.”

Myska decried the lack of coverage of the crime on front pages and the ” hateful rhetoric pumped out online and normalised by hard right politicians.”

Narinder Kaur, broadcaster & social commentator, also asked why there was “no mainstream TV channel covering” the crime and trial.

In October 2025, in Walsall, John Ashby followed a Sikh woman home after she got off a bus. Armed with a two‑foot stick he picked up from the ground, he entered her property without her knowledge.

The Mirror reported that Ashby shouted “Bloody Muslim bitch” at his victim during the rape. The woman told him she was Sikh, but he did not care.

The BBC reported that Ashby ordered his victim to call him “the master.” After raping her, he made her lie on the bed and said he was there “to have fun,” while describing his genitals as “white British.”

He is going to be sentenced on Friday, April 24.

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By The Canary

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