Rochdale survivor Billy Howarth, co-founder of Parents Against Grooming UK (PAGUK), has spent years supporting victims of child sexual exploitation and campaigning for safeguarding reform.
Even before PAGUK was formally established, Billy and the late Linda Phillips were already working on the ground supporting vulnerable people in their community. Linda’s passing was a huge loss, but her legacy continues through Billy, his team, and the survivors they stand with. The fight for justice and protection continues.
Through PAGUK, they’ve built practical survivor support including counselling, court advocacy, peer support, and a community hub funded largely by donations and volunteers.
The PAGUK Survivor Hub in Rochdale urgently needs restoration to stay open.
If you believe survivors deserve support and accountability, please help amplify this.
The link to donate to the survivor hub renovations is below.
https://t.co/ia35QZtyPq
🔍Three Sheffield Brothers Jailed for Historic Child Sexual Abuse and Grooming
🔶 Case summary
Three brothers from Sheffield have been jailed for a series of historic sexual offences and grooming targeting vulnerable girls as young as 12. One brother, 41-year-old Amar Ilyas, fled to Pakistan while on bail and was sentenced in his absence following an investigation by the National Crime Agency’s Operation Stovewood.
🔶 Offences
Amar Ilyas:
🔸 Convicted of 20 offences including rape against five victims
Kamar Ilyas:
🔸 Rape of a child under 13
🔸 Sexual activity with a child (two counts)
Kamran Ilyas:
🔸 Sexual activity with a child (two counts)
🔶 Sentencing
Amar Ilyas was sentenced in his absence to 27 years in prison. In court on Monday, Kamar Ilyas was jailed for 10 years, and Kamran Ilyas was sentenced to three years in prison.
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A few weeks ago, I submitted a petition which has now been accepted, and I’m finally able to share it.
Many people will be aware that, recently, members of a grooming gang in Huddersfield were sentenced for the abuse of children. One of the offenders was convicted of “controlling prostitution”, despite the victims being children at the time.
In my own case, in 2019, one perpetrator was convicted on two counts of “child prostitution”.
Children cannot be prostitutes. What happened was child sexual exploitation and child rape.
The government has already acknowledged that the term “child prostitute” is unacceptable by quashing convictions that victims themselves received under such laws. Yet this language still persists within the legal system.
When perpetrators are convicted of offences using terminology linked to prostitution, it risks implying that the child was somehow a willing participant rather than what they truly were: a victim. This language is deeply harmful and reinforces the stigma and victim-blaming that survivors of child sexual abuse continue to face.
The word “prostitution” should never be used in any context relating to the sexual abuse or exploitation of children.
Please sign my petition to help end the use of this language across all areas of child sexual abuse. Children are never prostitutes. They are victims, and the law should reflect that.
You can sign the petition through this link:
https://t.co/hOIsdoijt2
Ive included screen shots of the convictions and you can access the full articles through these links.
Nine men, guilty of abusing two girls, jailed for total of 132 years | ITV News Calendar https://t.co/ZBpv4HahB4
Twenty people jailed for sexual abuse committed decades ago in Kirklees | West Yorkshire Police https://t.co/kNK7GMykgt
Also if you would like to help me continue the work im doing around child sexual abuse and exploitation please consider donating below:
https://t.co/5Kn65MPRd8
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As a child Lydia was moved from a children’s home in the West Country to a home in East London. From there she was groomed, raped and trafficked eventually ending up in Saudi Arabia. Out of sheer bravery and determination and years of abuse, Lydia educated herself and eventually after 7 children she returned to the UK and is now a single mum living back in East London. She was a key figure in The Rape Gang inquiry and is a relentless campaigner for victims of sexual violence. She is the most amazing, brave and stoic woman I have ever met. She is beautiful inside and out. None of us can imagine the life she has lived yet she never complains. When she tells me her story, I always cry yet she is just grateful for a second chance at life. I want your help to raise some money to treat Lydia and her children to a summer break. She has never known any emotion other than survival - I want that to change. I want her and her children to enjoy something most of us take for granted - a break from reality, some fun and time together as a family. Your help is appreciated, whatever you can afford would be absolutely fantastic 🙏🏻 thank you my friends 🙏🏻
https://t.co/E5h1DPsNN8
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@telfordsurvior@SuzanneEvans1@Telford_Escaper Excellent post which in stark personal detail outlines the tragedy of her mother. Seriously abused and raped by gangs and left pregnant. Good luck to you Josh. Given your Mother our love and hope that she can move on.
@telfordsurvior@TRobinsonNewEra Thank you for sharing @TRobinsonNewEra Josh has decided to tell his story of him being raped/groomed and born from me having him as a result of the rape I went thru. So appreciate ❤️❤️❤️
They say ‘it happened years ago, leave it alone.’
Tell that to my mum @Telford_Escaper who still wakes up screaming at night.
Tell that to me, who grew up knowing I was created from her abuse.
Grooming doesn’t ‘expire’. Trauma doesn’t disappear. And silence only lets it happen again.
I’m here to break the silence. Because survivors matter. Because justice matters.
My mum was just 13 in this photo after giving birth to me.
#SurvivorSpeaks #EndGrooming #BornFromRape #MenSurviveToo #groominggangsuk
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Ethnically British Christians should have a right to bare arms.
English Bill of Rights 1689
stated that:
“Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law”.
Looks like Slater Street. I see this every week when i go out with the @LpoolGuardian - Muslim men who are not out drinking. Hanging around Concert Square, Mathew Street and taxi ranks. This is why we now have Halo points all over town. The police are well aware of them.
They are out to prey on vulnerable women. We need them all gone, there can be no other way because they won’t stop.
I’ve posted videos like this before and had Muslims commenting things like “oh so it’s ok for a white man who’s drunk to do this?”.
They don’t understand the concept of “taking advantage of women”. Part of our culture is going out to town on the pull look ing to meet women in bars.
In our culture we go out and drink together and are in the same mental state when drunk. Having a laugh and a good time is not something these people engage in.
But men completely sober loitering about on the streets trying to pick women off when they are paralytic is a new concept we’re now having to deal with.
If we highlight this we’re called Islamophobic and racist. But I’m past caring. These are all over town nowadays and people need to know.
Women please be aware of these men. It isn’t racism to be wary of them. It’s basic survival instincts. Do not let some Muslim or lefty in the comments convince you that this is normal.
This is not normal, it is a very real danger that has been imported from the Middle East and it’s all being paid for with your taxes.
Thank you to Channel 4 for exposing these because mainstream media are acting like they don’t see it.
In May last year, Reform UK became the largest party on Leicestershire County Council.
A year & a bit later we’ve just paid off £26.9m of Tory debt, taking the Council’s debt to the LOWEST LEVEL in recorded HISTORY! 📜
Real delivery. Reform is sorting the mess the others left behind. 🇬🇧
FOREIGN “HUMAN RIGHTS” NGO INFILTRATES EUROPE‼️
NGOs preying on liberal suicidaI empaths are DESTROYING Europe.
The women-founded MENA Rights group enables fake asylum seekers and undermines COUNTER-TERR0RISM measures.
MILLIONS are being spent to brainwash white people with GUILT.
CUT. THEM. OFF.
A White female doctor in Georgia was STRANGLED, SE*UALLY ASSAULTED, then had her THROAT SLIT by a Black man with 40+ PREVIOUS CHARGES.
ZERO coverage from:
-NYT
-CNN
-WaPo
-MSNBC
-NPR
-Reuters
-Axios
-ABC
-PBS
EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. COVERED. GEORGE. FLOYD.
DO YOU GET IT YET?!!!
“We need to have an internal conversation with our MP’s on where the country should be”
No. You need to have a conversation with the country. It’s called a general election
The future of Britain isn’t for the Labour Party to decide behind closed doors.
Keir Starmer was a terrible Prime Minister.
He put up taxes to pay people who don't work, released thousands of criminals early, and opened up our veterans to prosecution.
But Labour MPs wanted all that, and they're not going anywhere. With Burnham, it'll be more of the same.