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The Survivors - shining a light on grooming gangs
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Community-led support for survivors of grooming gangs.
Independent research holding institutions to account.
Building local groups outside failing systems.
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Stories in the Express and GB News today, reveal the true scale of the grooming gang complicity and cover up -- all the way up to the highest offices in this country.
💥Senior MPs took delivery of girls in Parliament.
💥Our Prime Minister made sure their stories got buried.
This is why The Survivors exists. Justice will only come when we know EXACTLY what happened to EVERY survivor. That's the whole point of creating an archive, recording every testimony, documenting every scrap of evidence. Not only of the gangs themselves, but also of the cover up.
Because let's be clear: the gangs did the grooming and raping, but the cover up was it's own kind of abuse. It was a complete betrayal of the survivors, and of this country. And it cannot be allowed to go unchecked.
We are in the last stages of planning to get The Survivors off the ground. But we need your help.
We need teams of volunteers all across the country, ready to work on setting up support groups so that we can get the survivors the support they need, and start to take testimonies in a safe, secure way.
We need teams of researchers to comb the public records and submitting FOIs, finding out exactly who knew what, when, and following the money trails.
And we need editors and citizens reporters who can help us get the information out to the public.
If you would like to help, please email [email protected].
Visit https://t.co/DdcL9zTn4S for more details.
"By the age 16, gang members groomed and forced her to have sex with politicians and police officers, among hundreds of other men in a sickening campaign of abuse.
"In one allegation, which takes the grooming scandal right to the heart of government, Amelia says one of her regular abusers took her to London in around 2001-2002 and sneaked her into the Houses of Parliament to offer sexual services to a high profile politician.
"Parliamentary authorities said they did not deal properly with her allegations which she made to her local MP in 2023."
They knew. They did nothing.
https://t.co/igtMvLuaBP
We need to know who this MP was and why he wasn't prosecuted along with anyone else involved.
I’ve been told that speaking about the r4pe gangs harms victims, and that I shouldn’t be writing at all.
I don’t accept that.
What harmed them was what happened , and is still happening — and the years no one spoke about it. The years action wasn’t taken. The cover ups.
I haven’t had victims tell me that speaking about this causes harm. If I do, I will consider as that is the absolute LAST thing I’m trying to do.
What I have seen are claims that talking about it somehow encourages it.
I don’t accept that either.
Silence didn’t protect anyone. It allowed it.
I won’t be part of that.
Keir Starmer boasted that he “asked for” the Rochdale grooming gangs file and “oversaw” decisions on the case…
… we can reveal that means he approved the smearing of a victim as a paedophile for ‘tactical reasons’
Watch our stunning investigation now
https://t.co/IZqiPyDY2T
A current serving Labour MP Co-chaired the “deny everything” meeting I attended at Rotherham Town Hall on 11/9/14 - This was in response to the Jay Report published on 26/8/14
Stories in the Express and GB News today, reveal the true scale of the grooming gang complicity and cover up -- all the way up to the highest offices in this country.
💥Senior MPs took delivery of girls in Parliament.
💥Our Prime Minister made sure their stories got buried.
This is why The Survivors exists. Justice will only come when we know EXACTLY what happened to EVERY survivor. That's the whole point of creating an archive, recording every testimony, documenting every scrap of evidence. Not only of the gangs themselves, but also of the cover up.
Because let's be clear: the gangs did the grooming and raping, but the cover up was it's own kind of abuse. It was a complete betrayal of the survivors, and of this country. And it cannot be allowed to go unchecked.
We are in the last stages of planning to get The Survivors off the ground. But we need your help.
We need teams of volunteers all across the country, ready to work on setting up support groups so that we can get the survivors the support they need, and start to take testimonies in a safe, secure way.
We need teams of researchers to comb the public records and submitting FOIs, finding out exactly who knew what, when, and following the money trails.
And we need editors and citizens reporters who can help us get the information out to the public.
If you would like to help, please email [email protected].
Visit https://t.co/DdcL9zTn4S for more details.
Over the past 6 months I’ve been working closely with @JournoZak of @Daily_Express .Today’s front page story about the horrors of how the Rochdale children were failed, how they were treated as less than human is not new. It’s what directly led me to resign from @gmpolice in late 2012. I was ashamed to have been part of such a despicable case!
I have spoken about it constantly since 2013, I covered it in my book and have supported Amber and Ruby for over 12 years to fight against police and cps to expose how horrifically they were treated.
I was grateful that in 2022 the new Chief Constable of @gmpolice finally formally apologised. His predecessor Ian Hopkins QPM very forcefully and for years refused. And @peter1fahy turned away and condoned their treatment whilst Chief Constable. In my opinion both are not fit for office!
However even though we had “face to face” meetings with @CPSUK Crown Prosecution Service in London even as recently as 2023, they still refused to apologise, refused to say they won’t use these same what I consider disgusting “tactics” again, and that is very concerning.
Where Zak Garner-Purkis has made such great strides is in strengthening what I’ve always said, what Ruby and Amber have always said, by finding direct claims made publicly by Keir Starmer where he owns the decision making on this case!
It’s abhorrent to me. Always was and always will be. And that he was Director of Public Prosecutions signing this off says so much about the type of man he is! It speaks for itself tbh. No conscience, no principles, no humanity.
For the very first time ever Ruby has shared her story with a journalist. It’s taken huge courage for her to open this box yet again. But she wants everyone to know how she and Amber were treated. I took her to meet Zak and here is the first part of this expose, and more will follow in coming weeks…
It knocked me sick from the first day I knew what they did to Amber and Ruby, but in all honesty this is the first time a national newspaper has wanted to go into the detail in this way. Thankyou Zak. X
https://t.co/MaLbfQM6a3
On Tuesday, the national inquiry into grooming gangs was formally launched with the release of its terms of reference. The clock is now ticking on a three-year timeframe and in my view, there isn’t a second to spare.
This inquiry has been given an immense responsibility: to uncover the truth behind what is arguably Britain’s biggest national scandal. It spans decades and reaches across the entire UK. The number of victims is heartbreaking. Each one not only endured unimaginable abuse but was failed by the very services and institutions that were supposed to protect them.
Given the scale of this scandal, time is critical. That is why it is so disheartening to see further delays in launching in-depth investigations into specific localities.
We are being told it will take another three months just to establish the criteria for selecting those areas, followed by further delays before investigations even begin. This is simply not good enough. I would urge Baroness Anne Longfield and her panel to move forward as soon as possible with Oldham. This is an area that has already been identified, and there is no valid reason why work there should not begin immediately.
As Baroness Louise Casey highlighted in her audit last year, areas where evidence already exists should be able to proceed without delay. Yet seven months on, survivors are still waiting. Every day lost is another day survivors are left in uncertainty.
This slow pace is beginning to erode what little hope and trust many survivors had in the inquiry to begin with. The sooner survivors see meaningful action, the better.
There are, however, positives within the terms of reference. The commitment to live-stream hearings, encourage cross-party engagement, and properly address the role of race, religion, and culture as motivating factors in the abuse itself alongside institutional failures, are all important and welcome steps.
My main concern is the timeframe of the inquiry. Limiting its scope to cases from 1996 onwards is not sufficient. This issue goes back much further, and setting a cut-off risks overlooking crucial information, including how these patterns of abuse first developed.
That said, the terms are a clear improvement on the original draft put forward by the government.
I hope survivors will soon be told how they can actively participate in the inquiry moving forward. And despite my concerns, I will continue to engage with this process in any way I can. Because no matter how little hope I may sometimes feel, I cannot allow myself to lose it entirely. The moment I do is the moment I stop fighting and I will never stop fighting for a safer future for my children.
This man raped a schoolgirl at the back of his vape shop.
He told her his name was “Tony”.
Actually he is Iqbal Singh.
Part 2 of our vape shops investigation exposes the truth about “Tony” and concerns his crimes are ‘just the tip of the iceberg’.. 🧵
Why did the Home Office wait seven months to tell Police Forces not to destroy evidence of the grooming gangs?
We can't think of any good reasons... can you?
Over the past 9 months, I have been investigating how the Home Office has been preparing for the national grooming gangs inquiry - and crucially, whether vital evidence has been properly protected.
What I’ve found is extremely concerning...
In June last year, Baroness Louise Casey recommended a full national inquiry.
Her Audit was clear that in the meantime, police forces, councils and authorities across the country should be required not to destroy any records that could be used as evidence.
But we now know that didn’t happen.
Freedom of Information requests now appear to show the Home Office waited a staggering 212 days - nearly seven months - before formally contacting police forces and other key agencies.
Today, the Home Affairs select Committee has written directly to the Home Secretary warning that this 212 failure means that some records critical to the inquiry “might have been destroyed”.
That is a staggering failure at the heart of government.
I first raised the alarm on this in December, after uncovering that authorities in Bradford had not received any instruction at all from government.
Just two days later, newly appointed Chair of the National Inquiry, Baroness Anne Longfield, wrote to the Government reinforcing exactly the same point.
Yet even after that warning, it still took another 36 days for the Home Office to act and pass the Chair's message on to authorities.
Freedom of information requests show that then-Permanent Secretary Antonio Romeo finally wrote to Home Office-funded Arm’s Length Bodies and Chief Constables across the country on 14 January 2026 - 7 months after the Casey Audit.
The government now has serious and unavoidable questions it must answer.
- Why was there such a delay?
- What kind of records may have been lost?
- What are the legal consequences if records have been lost, but the Home Office failed to act?
Even now, it remains unclear whether local councils across the country were ever formally contacted at all about the protection of records.
Unless the government can provide clear answers to these questions, they risk not only undermining confidence in this process, but failing victims who have already been let down for far too long.
Read the Home Affairs Select Committee letter here: https://t.co/4KsqcAOcOw
This is an important thread. We're told that only one party covered up the grooming gangs - Labour. But the Tories were in charge for 14 years, and in that time they took the same line: no investigation required. Have a read.
SCOOP: 🧵 on how demands for inquiries into child sex grooming gangs are more complicated than lots of people incl @elonmusk want to believe. Via Telford.
Labour took over Telford council in 2011 & worked to improve child safeguarding after abuse dating back to 80s.
Collecting as much evidence as we can is critical to understanding what happened and how it was allowed to happen. Every file lost erases the memory of what took place. That's why our project to archive as much of that information as possible is crucial.
Help us. https://t.co/DdcL9zTn4S
Vital grooming gangs evidence may have been DESTROYED thanks to bungling civil servants
https://t.co/xiDGjn8qOS
Thank you @NJ_Timothy for laying out the scale of the crime - the guilty parties are not just the rapists, but every person tasked with upholding law and order in this country who abnegated their duty. Solving the grooming gang crisis means tackling the corruption in our system
Clan culture is corrupting our public institutions and the rule of law.
And it goes bigger than even the rape gangs.
Why are Labour so against transparency in the criminal justice system?
Every report into grooming gangs in the UK has found the same two things: mass institutional failure, and terrible data collection. The ethnicity of perpetrators has dominated public debate, but the data needed to settle the question has never been properly collected.
Here's what we actually know — and what we don't.
📌The Jay Report (2014) estimated 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, mostly by Pakistani-heritage men. Social workers, police, and council staff all knew. None acted. Victims were trafficked across northern towns and sold for sex.
📌In Oxford, Operation Bullfinch uncovered an estimated 373 victims — 330 girls and 43 boys — trafficked to cities including London, Manchester, Leeds, and Bradford. The review found a lack of professional curiosity helped criminal networks go undetected.
📌In Telford, an independent inquiry found abuse by predominantly Pakistani-heritage men going back to the 1970s. The estimate of 1,000 victims was described as "conservative." Children were trafficked between Telford, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham.
📌The IICSA inquiry (2022) found it couldn't provide an accurate picture of the scale of group-based exploitation because the criminal justice system and children's social care simply hadn't collected the data. It also found family members committed the most sexual offences against children overall.
📌The VKPP's 2023 analysis recorded 115,489 child sexual abuse offences across England and Wales — believed to represent roughly a fifth of actual offences. Of those, 4.6% were group-based. But here's the problem: offender ethnicity was only recorded in 31% of cases. For 69%, it was simply missing.
📌The Casey Audit (2025) was the first national assessment specifically asked to examine ethnicity. It found group-based exploitation persists due to failures in care systems, prosecution, data collection, and the use of disruption tools. It could not confirm whether any ethnic group is overrepresented nationally — because the data doesn't exist to answer the question.
Casey found perpetrators target the most vulnerable children — those in care, those with disabilities. The consistent thread across every report isn't ethnicity. It's vulnerability, institutional failure, and a refusal to collect the information needed to understand and prevent these crimes.
This is absolutely appalling, and only goes to show how broken the system truly is. We have grooming gangs in this country for one reason and one reason only: because they are facilitated by the state to keep abusing children. The question we should all be asking is: WHY?
I want to draw everyone’s attention to this horrific summary written by one of our very capable, eloquent and brave survivors Lee Cooper
Lee’s story shows clearly why victims/survivors no longer report their abuse to the police, because it simply retraumatises an already damaged individual again and again and again!
Lee had already been fighting alone for justice for years when he approached us @TMOFCharity The Maggie Oliver Foundation for help 3 years ago. He was desperate, he had given up, and quite understandably was so angry, disillusioned and horrified that despite his years of fighting @gmpolice Greater Manchester Police for justice for his abuse as a young child, they had still not arrested his abuser despite Lee telling them precisely where his abuser lived.
We became involved and fought his corner, escalating his case to senior officers and attending meetings to put pressure on them to act….. and within TWO DAYS they had located the abuser - exactly where Lee had said he was!
Since then there’s been delay after delay, countless mistakes but finally the abuser was charged!
Over a year ago the trial date came and went - abandoned by the court for various unjustified and unforgivable reasons!
Lee almost walked away then, so traumatised was he, even suicidal at times. But he decided to see it through until the rearranged trial date finally arrived again, yesterday!
And what happened?
Delayed again!
Until 2028!!!!!!!!!
Broken Britain clearly shown in just one case.
This is what we see time after time
And I must stress, Lee’s case is just one of many we are fighting. And this is Greater Manchester Police but the problems stretch throughout the whole of the uk, throughout the @CPSUK Crown Prosecution Service and courts (and I hasten to add it’s NOTHING to do with jury’s!!! That’s a total red herring!)
Victims are being routinely/almost always failed!
Our criminals are walking away Scott free
There’s a total Lack of investment
A lack of empathy
No therapy available even after 7 year waits
Sentences inadequate because prisons are full and falling down
It’s Totally horrific
Inhuman!
Criminal neglect of our country by successive governments
Shameful!
And Lee will carry the injustice he rightly feels today to the end of his days…..
And THIS is why I continue to shout loudly although it won’t help Lee as he tries to come to terms with his disgusting treatment and how our country has failed him since he was a little boy
😥😥
Here is @LeeCooper’s summary… he isn’t on X so this is shared from Linked In….
“Today the trial against my perpetrator was set to begin after a two year wait, and five years after I first reported to the police.
On Thursday I got a telephone call to tell me that the trial had been vacated four days out due to another case overrunning, meaning there are no available courtrooms at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester.
Over the weekend, I was asked to write a Victim Impact Statement and provide dates of unavailability for 2027, 2028, and 2029 so that the trial can be relisted at a “mention and fix” hearing today instead of proceeding to trial.
I have written and submitted my statement, and I have informed the CPS that if the trial is relisted for any date beyond 2026, then I will be withdrawing from the process.
I’ve written a this short essay explaining this decision that I hope will provide insight and clarity as to what may be perceived as a disappointing choice.
We will see what happens at the hearing today, I would very much like the trial to be re-listed for a date later this year. But anything beyond is more than I am willing to give. I hope my transparency on this journey has highlighted the horrific system in all its light.”
https://t.co/uwYBMLhwbU
Every report into grooming gangs in the UK has found the same two things: mass institutional failure, and terrible data collection. The ethnicity of perpetrators has dominated public debate, but the data needed to settle the question has never been properly collected.
Here's what we actually know — and what we don't.
📌The Jay Report (2014) estimated 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, mostly by Pakistani-heritage men. Social workers, police, and council staff all knew. None acted. Victims were trafficked across northern towns and sold for sex.
📌In Oxford, Operation Bullfinch uncovered an estimated 373 victims — 330 girls and 43 boys — trafficked to cities including London, Manchester, Leeds, and Bradford. The review found a lack of professional curiosity helped criminal networks go undetected.
📌In Telford, an independent inquiry found abuse by predominantly Pakistani-heritage men going back to the 1970s. The estimate of 1,000 victims was described as "conservative." Children were trafficked between Telford, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham.
📌The IICSA inquiry (2022) found it couldn't provide an accurate picture of the scale of group-based exploitation because the criminal justice system and children's social care simply hadn't collected the data. It also found family members committed the most sexual offences against children overall.
📌The VKPP's 2023 analysis recorded 115,489 child sexual abuse offences across England and Wales — believed to represent roughly a fifth of actual offences. Of those, 4.6% were group-based. But here's the problem: offender ethnicity was only recorded in 31% of cases. For 69%, it was simply missing.
📌The Casey Audit (2025) was the first national assessment specifically asked to examine ethnicity. It found group-based exploitation persists due to failures in care systems, prosecution, data collection, and the use of disruption tools. It could not confirm whether any ethnic group is overrepresented nationally — because the data doesn't exist to answer the question.
Casey found perpetrators target the most vulnerable children — those in care, those with disabilities. The consistent thread across every report isn't ethnicity. It's vulnerability, institutional failure, and a refusal to collect the information needed to understand and prevent these crimes.
Demand a urgent independent criminal investigation into the corruption in adult safeguarding and child protection procedures- For years, I’ve faced bullying, intimidation, and endless failings — all because I dared to speak up and challenge professionals when I saw things going wrong. Growing up around disabilities, I’ve always been aware of how people can be mistreated or misunderstood. Now, at 44, I can honestly say that very little has changed. The only difference is that it all happens in front of the public — and people still turn a blind eye.
Local authorities, the NHS, many schools, and even the police are often viewed as heroes, but my experience has been very different. Ever since I raised concerns about serious failings in 2018/19 I’ve been targeted and set up repeatedly. I’ve seen fabricated reports, false referrals, and professionals claiming “serious concerns” that were never true. In one case, a referral even named a school my child never attended.
My children, who have disabilities, have been gaslit and used as weapons in false allegations. The trauma from this has been unbearable. Sadly, some police officers have also been part of the problem — sitting in meetings with certain professionals to protect one another instead of seeking truth or justice.
I’ve been speaking out about this publicly for years, though I use Facebook less now because of everything we’ve endured. As a mother, I’m exhausted by the incompetence, bullying, and lack of accountability. Sitting in meetings where professionals twist my words and pass judgments without even knowing me or my children is soul-destroying.
Families like ours deserve better. Where is the common sense, the understanding, the humanity? The discrimination and disregard we face are disgraceful. The past seven years have been the worst of my life, and I honestly don’t know how much longer I can keep going like this. I’m pleading for others to share their stories — to speak up and be heard. We can’t keep suffering in silence. We need accountability, compassion, and change… I know I’m not on my own but how much more do I take ??
Our work researching grooming gangs and their causes is underway. There's a lot that's already known about grooming gangs -- and even more that's yet to be settled. We have published an academic scoping review laying out what those gaps are, as we move ahead to tackle them.
https://t.co/2QXgKek9xd
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