This exact debate was also had in the national and international media in the days and weeks after Straw and Dando.

The ethnicity of the child rapists is irrelevant.
Race mattered not at all to Wilmer.
She just treated it as a criminal issue and did not think it worth mentioning that all the perpetrators in her hundreds of cases happened to be BPs.

Straw made it an issue, by declaring it and offering an explanation.
The over-representation is a fact.
Perhaps it was not worth challenging those who have to deny it for their ideological agendas.