LONDON — Keir Starmer defended his work as Britain's top prosecutor on Monday (Jan 6), refusing to mention US billionaire Elon Musk by name but addressing Musk's criticism that, long before he became prime minister, he had failed to prosecute gangs who sexually abused girls.

Musk, an ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, has spent days posting messages on his social media site X accusing Starmer of what he said was a failure to prosecute gangs of men, mostly of a South Asian background, who raped young girls when he was director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013.

Starmer declined to address some of Musk's other messages on X — including a poll asking whether the United States should liberate the UK from its "tyrannical government" — but strongly defended his record as DPP, saying he had overcome resistance to tackling the allegations by reopening cases.

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