“Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.” - Ricky Gervais
A family of Cheetah sleep with the forest guard every night.The Forest Dept wanted to investigate this this claim by installing a CCTV camera. This is what the camera recorded! Not sure if the storyline is true but the Bonding is genuine and amazing.
Today, in Parliament, I asked the Justice Minister an incredibly serious question.
I sought confirmation that the government will not release early from prison Fiona Goddard’s perpetrators.
This follows a letter, Fiona and many other victims and survivors have received from government which outlined they intend to assess whether to release early from prison many of those who carried out the most serious sexual offences, including gang rape.
This has caused huge amounts of stress and anxiety.
It is also fundamentally wrong.
Rather than answering my direct question, the Minister responds with a political answer.
This government is an absolute disgrace.
Today, I can announce we have secured a full independent grooming gangs inquiry across Keighley and the wider Bradford district.
This is a watershed moment and marks a significant turning point in the pursuit of justice, truth and accountability for victims and survivors right across our area. It comes almost two decades after Anne Cryer first had the courage to raise this issue in Parliament.
The inquiry will be fully independent of Bradford Council.
It will focus on examining failures in local and national safeguarding systems, evidence handling, institutional accountability, and investigate the role of ethnicity, race and culture, and allegations of systematic abuse covered up by authorities.
It will have statutory powers to compel witnesses and evidence.
And where there is evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups, it will be able to refer matters to the police.
No one will be able to hide.
When I first got elected, six and a half years ago, some of the first meetings I had were with local survivors like Fiona Goddard.
Listening to their accounts of this crime, I was confronted with horrors that I will never forget.
I made a promise to them then that I would do everything in my power to ensure their voices were heard and the truth would come out.
Since then, I have consistently campaigned for this inquiry.
I want to pay tribute to Fiona Goddard and the many others from across Keighley whom I have met - without them, none of this would be possible.
Fiona is one of the bravest individuals I have ever met. Her extraordinary courage in speaking out and becoming a leading voice for survivors nationally should be an inspiration to us all - both locally in Keighley and across the UK.
Now, after tireless campaigning and lobbying, their voices are finally being heard.
I also want to recognise the work of leading child abuse lawyer David Greenwood, who has helped bring vital cases and evidence forward. He has been crucial to this campaign. Working with him, it has been clear for all to see that the scale of this issue across the Bradford District will dwarf that of the likes of Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford.
At times, our calls for a full inquiry were dismissed, or rejected altogether. Yet despite this we refused to give up.
For many years, political leaders from across our region, including the previous Bradford Council Leader Susan Hinchcliffe, the Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin and Deputy Mayor for Policing, Alison Lowe repeatedly rejected our calls for an inquiry.
It was my firm view that these refusals mirrored the same patterns of denial seen in towns like Rotherham and Telford. There, decades of abuse were hidden in plain sight until independent inquires finally forced the truth into the open.
It was deeply frustrating, but nevertheless welcome that it was only once a national inquiry was recommended by Baroness Casey in June 2025, supported by the Home Secretary, that these same local leaders changed their position, and supported our calls.
Whilst no inquiry can undo the pain and suffering they have endured, it can help ensure the truth is uncovered and that those who were failed finally receive the answers they have spent years fighting for.
And finally.
One of the most difficult lessons of this entire process is that survivors have had to become campaigners themselves just to be heard.
That should never have been necessary.
It speaks to a deep and painful failure in Britain right now, and of the institutions at every level of the British state.
Now we owe it to survivors, and to thousands across our area who suffered in silence, to see this through together.
This inquiry must seek the truth - however horrific it may be. And bring about justice to those who have been failed for far too long.
I will not stop until we achieve this.
Robbie
Henry Novak
Many are failing to acknowledge that the whole terrible situation was very much about race and is still about race thanks to the perpetrator and his family who, misused the race card for their own advantage. Misuse of race card needs severe consequences & is divisive.
Because a dog was diagnosed with depression after suffering a miscarriage, and veterinarians decided that working with children at a local school would be good for her.🥹❤️
5 years ago today my life was changed forever.
After being groomed through Snapchat, raped, beaten up and bullied online my daughter Semina Mary took a fatal overdose that went on to kill her.
The police failed her
Social services failed her
The school failed her.
Not one person in authority said they believed her but instead said its your word against his.
18 months later after her death I received an IOPC report that showed the detective in charge of the case had been to the perpetrators house, the report showed an admission of guilt and had taken Semina to the woods and raped her. The officer gave him a choice to be either arrested or hand over his devices.
THE DETECTIVE NEVER TOLD SEMINA HE ADMITTED IT OR THAT HE BELIEVED HER!
SHE WAS HIS SECOND VICTIM.
Semina-Mary died a long painful death awake for 2 days while her body was shutting down. She asked the doctor am I going to die, his answer "we will try to save you"
Her last words to me before going into an induced coma "he raped me"
Semina had 3 heart attacks, major surgery to save her legs from amputation. On the 12th of June 2021 at 10.20 she had her final heart attack as I was holding her, she took the hand of Jesus and left for heaven.
Semina died thinking it was her word against his and she wasn't believed
She was 12 years old.
34-year-old Katie Fox was stabbed in the neck in Birmingham and has died.
Djeison Rafael is charged with her murder.
Just two days earlier, 19-year-old Lily Whitehouse was stabbed to death in Oldbury.
Mohammed Azim is charged with her murder. The same Mohammed Azim who previously served 11 years for manslaughter and 16 years for three rapes in 2013.
Every day, one of our wives, daughters, sisters and mothers is murdered or raped by men who never needed to be here.
The system imported the killers, gave them early release, and left our women to pay the price.
Enough.
They have to go. All of them.
On Monday 1st June at 16:30 - I will be speaking in Parliament - calling on the government to include Keighley and the wider Bradford District in the National Grooming Gangs Inquiry with immediate effect.
The government must also take urgent action to increase the collection and transparency of data on individuals - including the nationality, ethnicity, immigration status and religion - of child sexual offenders responsible for group-based child sexual exploitation.
@SarahForRuncorn Thank you so much for raising this. Such an important point and time & time again the Labour government prioritise other issues over child rape.
@_RobbieMoore thank you for your challenge on behalf of Keighley & Bradford at the Home Affairs Committee to the Grooming Gang Scandal. Let’s see what they do???!!!
What a fantastic challenge from @_RobbieMoore at the Home Affairs Select Committee on the National Grooming Gangs Inquiry. Thank goodness we have him as our MP in Keighley trying to uncover this horrific scandal.
My opinion piece based on my personal experiences with @AndyBurnhamGM in my work fighting for change, and justice for survivors and victims of sexual abuse written for today’s @DailyMail ….
Burnham wasted the chance to give a voice to grooming gang victims https://t.co/IC61BGwEu2