FOR 20 YEARS LITTLE WHITE GIRLS WERE GANGED RAPED IN OLDHAM BY PAKISTANI MEN. THE COUNCIL PUT THE GIRLS MOST AT RISK UNDER ONE ROOF WHILST THE MEN DROVE WAITING FOR THEM TO COME OUT. Not satisfied with opening a child brothel, the council gave a taxi licence to a man who had abducted and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old. Meanwhile, the police left the leader of the Rochdale rape gang to roam free whilst the council continued to pay him and continued allowing him access to children. Andy Burnham's Assurance Review recorded all of it and told Oldham there had been no cover-up. His Labour Party colleagues used his review to attempt to close down the campaign for a statutory inquiry. Between 2019 to January 2025 Burnham stood by a review that could not compel a witness, had not interviewed a single survivor, and had not even seen the police files. He described the sham as 'thorough'. Only under extraordinary public pressure did he back an inquiry with the power his own review never had. Even then, his support was only for something 'limited'. In June 2025, six years after we began our campaign, the government conceded the National Statutory Inquiry. Oldham was the first town named for it. The National Inquiry has the power to compel Prime Minister Andy Burnham. It must use it and force him to testify. Anything less than this is a continuation of the cover up. Andy Burnham called his review 'thorough'. His own police force had hidden its files from it, and he knew that when he said it. He must stand in front of the National Inquiry and explain why. He must say who approved Operation Hexagon, and why a police force under his authority was sent after the people exposing the rape of children instead of the men raping them. He must tell the people of this country why his reviewers did not contact or interview a single survivor of Oldham's rape gangs. A review of the gang rape of children in a town was published without one of those children being asked what happened to her. And above all, he must answer why he fought a statutory inquiry for six years, and only backed one when he had no choice left. Left to their own devices, Burnham will be allowed to hide away from what he did. Which is why it is left to us. We must not stop until the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is forced to sit in that witness chair and testify for what he did. Raja Miah MBE _________ You know what we are up against. The mainstream media will not touch my work. Institutions I investigate do not volunteer their records. Politicians do not suddenly decide to hold themselves to account. And yet, despite every attempt to stop us, we forced the national inquiry. We did that because enough ordinary people refused to go away. But getting the inquiry was never the end of this campaign. In many ways it was only the beginning. Now we have to watch where it goes, what it investigates, which places it avoids, which witnesses it calls, which records it obtains and whether the same institutions that failed these children are allowed to control the story again. Nobody else is going to do that work for us. And I cannot do it indefinitely working on my own. That is why I keep talking about 50,000 committed subscribers. It is not a vanity number. I did not pluck it out of the air. With fifty thousand people with me means when we uncover something important, it does not depend on a newspaper editor, a television producer or an algorithm deciding whether you are allowed to see it. It gives us reach they cannot easily shut down. But there is another reason. I need to build a proper backroom operation around this work. At the moment I am investigating, researching, writing, publishing, producing the videos, running the newsletter, dealing with the technology and then starting again. It is unsustainable. I need people behind me who can take care of the technical and production work so that I can spend my time doing the thing I do best. That is why we have been pushing so hard for new paid subscribers. 🔴 SIGN UP HERE 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk If you read my work and want it to continue, I need your help. Sign up for free. There are no paywalls to access any of my work. If you can afford the £3 a month or £30 for the year, please become a paid subscriber. We forced the inquiry. Now we need the numbers to make sure they cannot control what happens next. Unfortunately, we are reaching the end of the road where I can continue working this way. The paid subscriptions have stalled. Worse, tens of thousands of people are now reading these articles without even joining the free mailing list. The audience is growing, but the number of people actually standing behind the work is not growing with it. Over a million people engaged in my content this week. Only a small fraction followed up with a subscription to my newsletter This is becoming impossible to sustain. 🔴 SIGN UP HERE 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk Raja Miah MBE

There are a number of reasons we got this far and forced the National Inquiry. One of these reasons was that we understood the rules as well as they did and outmanoeuvred them every time they tried to maintain the cover up. Which is why it is important that I tell you that you are not being told the truth about Keir Starmer being summoned to the National Inquiry. I’ll share my analysis over on Red Wall and the Rabble this evening. Once you have seen what I set out, I want you to take a moment to reflect on why it was me bringing you this information. These people think we were born yesterday. Raja Miah MBE

BIRMINGHAM WAS FIRST WARNED IN 1985. GIRLS IN ITS CARE WERE STILL REPORTING RAPE IN 1991. COUNCILLORS VOTED AGAINST AN INQUIRY IN 1995. AND IN 2015, POLICE HAD IDENTIFIED MORE THAN 700 CHILDREN AT RISK AND 372 SUSPECTS. Now consider this. Jess Phillips was Birmingham City Council's appointed Victims' Champion when Jill Jesson publicly alleged that evidence had been removed from her report and copies ordered destroyed. She was still in post when Birmingham went to the High Court over men suspected of sexually exploiting a girl in its care. And when the police produced their confidential assessment identifying hundreds of potential victims and suspects. She later became the government's safeguarding minister. She rejected Oldham's request for a government-led inquiry. She fought against a national inquiry. Only after leaving ministerial office, she signed a letter calling for Birmingham to be investigated. - What did Jess Phillips know? - What did she do? - And what representations did she make while she held those positions of responsibility? I've brought together TEN KEY DATES spanning forty-one years of Birmingham's rape gang scandal. The documents, the decisions, the allegations of destroyed evidence, the police intelligence and the questions Baroness Longfield's statutory inquiry must answer. The girls deserved protection. They deserve the truth. THE FULL INVESTIGATION WILL BE RELEASED ON RED WALL AND THE RABBLE 🔴 Sign Up Here 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk For years, we have challenged the official accounts and pursued the evidence others failed to confront. Now Birmingham is on the national inquiry's list. We must ensure the inquiry goes all the way. Please read, share and help fund the investigations. Every paid subscription helps keep this work available to everyone. Raja Miah MBE

IN 1985 BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL'S OWN WORKING PARTY FOUND LITTLE GIRLS IN ITS CARE TO BE INVOLVED IN WHAT IT DESCRIBED AS SEX FOR MONEY. Six years later the council’s next researcher found girls in its care reporting rape, beatings and burns. Nothing in the council’s published record shows it ever went after whoever was paying them, beating them, burning them, and raping them. In 1985 Birmingham Social Services produced a paper called Girls' Prostitution in Care. It recorded girls in the council's care believed to be involved in what it called sexual activity for financial benefit. Someone was paying these children for sex. The national inquiry must find out whether the working party recorded who. THE COUNCIL HAD THE WARNING IN WRITING SIX YEARS BEFORE JILL JESSON. After that warning, the council commissioned Dr Jill Jesson in 1990 to quantify the problem so social services could manage it. Her report in 1991 found twenty girls in the council's care whose files recorded rape allegations, violence and pregnancies. She says she was ordered to strip out the ethnicity of the men and the private-hire trade. Richard Evans, the Director of Social Services, told councillors in December 1995 that there was no significant quantitative problem. Councillors voted down an inquiry. The council cleared itself in 2015. What happened to the first warning? Who received Girls' Prostitution in Care? Which senior officers and councillors read it? Birmingham is Jess Phillips's city. She was elected a Labour councillor for Longbridge in 2012 and made the council's first Victims' Champion that June. She held that role in November 2014, when Jesson went public. The 1985 warning is recorded in Jesson's report. On 28 April 2026, as Safeguarding Minister, she told the Home Affairs Committee that when something obvious is missing that should be there, it "tells a story". Birmingham has republished the Jesson Report, but the original 1985 investigation cited within it has not been published. What did Birmingham's first Victims' Champion do to find it? AND BIRMINGHAM TODAY. In 1985 the council's working party picked out twenty-two girls because of their unexplained absences. On 30 September 2026 councillors were told of 143 children identified as experiencing, or at risk of, sexual exploitation, and that fifty-two per cent of them had repeatedly gone missing. Police were running 98 live child sexual exploitation investigations and six known grooming gangs. The warning sign the council wrote down in 1985 is in its own figures in 2026. The national inquiry must recover Girls' Prostitution in Care, call its four authors to give evidence and establish who received it. Read my full article into the Jesson Report here: redwallandtherabble.co.uk/fo… On my next live transmission I will go through what the Jesson Report reveals about the 1985 warning, and why the national inquiry must recover the original. Raja Miah MBE Until we came along, Birmingham Council had buried the Jesson Report. We helped force them to republish it. We did the same to get Birmingham named by the national inquiry. More than 1,000 of you have joined since June. I need another 1,000 to hold the National Inquiry to account. By now you know no one else will do what I do.. I share all my content for free. There are no paywalls to access any of my work. All I ask, for those that can afford to do so, is support me £3 a month or £30 a year so that I can continue the work. 🔴 Sign Up Here 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk Raja Miah MBE

GIRLS AS YOUNG AS 13 WERE BEING RAPED AND SOLD FOR SEX WHILE IN BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL'S CARE. WHEN THE WOMAN WHO INVESTIGATED THEIR ABUSE ACCUSED THE COUNCIL OF BURYING THE EVIDENCE, JESS PHILLIPS WAS BIRMINGHAM'S APPOINTED VICTIMS' CHAMPION. WHEN COUNCIL OFFICIALS DECLARED THERE HAD BEEN NO COVER-UP, SHE WAS STILL THERE. WEEKS LATER, SHE BECAME AN MP. These were children entrusted to Birmingham City Council for their protection. Dr Jill Jesson's investigation documented rape allegations, beatings, burns, pregnancies and girls taking overdoses. The council's own researcher found that Social Services had no systematic response to allegations of rape, but was concerned about protecting itself from bad publicity. Then, in November 2014, Jesson publicly accused Birmingham City Council of burying her findings. She said references to the ethnicity of the men had been removed and copies of her report ordered destroyed. JESS PHILLIPS WAS BIRMINGHAM'S FIRST VICTIMS' CHAMPION. She had been appointed in 2012. In April 2015, senior council officer Peter Hay acknowledged that an opportunity to protect children had been missed, but maintained there had been no cover-up. At the time, Phillips was still serving on Birmingham City Council. Weeks later, she was elected Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley. Phillips subsequently became the Government's Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls. JESS PHILLIPS MUST BE CALLED TO GIVE EVIDENCE BEFORE THE NATIONAL STATUTORY GROOMING GANGS INQUIRY. She must answer questions about her time as Birmingham's Victims' Champion and what action she took when the allegations about the Jesson Report resurfaced. AND BIRMINGHAM TODAY. 143 children identified as at risk of, or experiencing, sexual exploitation. 98 live investigations. Six confirmed grooming gangs. Two private-hire drivers stripped of their licences following police intelligence concerning potential sexual offences against children. Birmingham is finally on the national inquiry's list. But the fight now is over what evidence Baroness Longfield obtains and who she requires to answer for the decisions made. THE COUNCIL HAD A VICTIMS' CHAMPION WHEN THE ALLEGATIONS RESURFACED. THE PUBLIC DESERVES TO KNOW WHAT SHE DID. My latest investigation follows the evidence from the girls in Birmingham's care homes through to the council's handling of the report and Jess Phillips's subsequent political career. Read it here; redwallandtherabble.co.uk/th… The National Inquiry is entering the phase that will decide not just where it goes, but what it is prepared to confront once it gets there. Birmingham proves why that matters. We fought to get the city onto the list. Now, before the first witnesses have even been heard, a Pakistani politician is already trying to decide which questions should be pushed out of focus. That is why the pressure cannot stop at getting places named. Red Wall and the Rabble is now more than 15,000 strong. In the last three months, more than 1,000 people have committed to a paid subscription, and 250,000 people have read one of my investigations so far this year. We forced Oldham onto the list. We showed the way in Bradford. We campaigned relentlessly in Birmingham and across Wales, and both were named. None of it was handed to us. And now the next fight begins. Making sure the Inquiry actually asks the questions politicians and institutions spent decades avoiding. No political party funds this work. No institution stands behind me. Everything I publish remains free because the evidence needs to reach as many people as possible. The people who pay are the people who give me the independence to keep investigating, keep applying pressure and keep forcing these questions into the open. We set out to reach 2,000 paid subscribers. We still need another 1,000 more. If you want this Inquiry to go where the evidence leads, regardless of who it embarrasses, who it exposes or which political interests it threatens, become one of the next 1,000. 🔴 Subscribe here 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk We’re up against a machine, politicians, police, officials, and media, working together to shrink, sanitise, and bury the truth. This work survives because of you. If you’ve ever shared my posts, learned something, or felt less alone reading them, stand with me. I need your help. Raja Miah MBE

THE LITTLE GIRLS THAT WERE TAKEN AWAY TO BE GANG RAPED AND TRAFFICKED FROM BIRMINGHAM CARE HOMES BEGAN TAKING OVERDOSES. SOME DID THIS AS A PLEA FOR HELP. OTHERS WERE TRYING TO KILL THEMSELVES. INSTEAD OF PROTECTING CHILDREN IN ITS CARE, BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL WAS WORRIED ABOUT BAD PUBLICITY. In 1991 Dr Jill Jesson investigated the sexual exploitation of twenty girls in the council's care. She found evidence of serious psychological damage. Several had taken overdoses. Others had inflicted injuries on themselves. One girl was just 13 years old. Ten others were only 14 or 15. They were children Birmingham City Council had a legal responsibility to protect. The same investigation found that Birmingham Social Services had no systematic response to allegations of rape. BUT IT WAS CONCERNED ABOUT PROTECTING ITSELF FROM BAD PUBLICITY. Those are not my words. They are the findings of the council's own researcher. In section 5.7 of her report, Jesson identified a concern to protect the children's homes, their residents and the Social Services Department itself from bad publicity. Now consider what happened four years later. In December 1995 the report finally came before Birmingham councillors. The Director of Social Services, Richard Evans, put his own paper on the front of it. He told councillors there was no significant quantitative problem. He defended the decision not to circulate Jesson's findings. He warned against what he called "voyeuristic intrusion". And then he made an extraordinary accusation. He told councillors that concerns about the report being buried or ignored had been "deliberately manufactured". THE GIRLS' SUFFERING WAS DOCUMENTED. THE COUNCIL'S CONCERN ABOUT BAD PUBLICITY WAS DOCUMENTED. AND THE DIRECTOR DISMISSED CONCERNS ABOUT BURYING THE REPORT AS MANUFACTURED. Birmingham's councillors then voted against an enquiry. Twelve to five. The question is no longer simply what happened to those girls. IT IS WHO KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING, WHO DECIDED THE EVIDENCE SHOULD STAY OUT OF PUBLIC VIEW, AND WHO WAS PROTECTED BY THOSE DECISIONS. Jess Phillips was a Labour councillor on Birmingham City Council from 2011 to 2015. In 2012 the council made her its first Victims' Champion. She held that role in November 2014, when Jill Jesson told the Birmingham Mail that the council had buried her report and ordered the copies destroyed. She still held it in April 2015, when Peter Hay told the council's own scrutiny committee that the report had been withheld for reasons that were not clear, but that there had been no cover-up. Weeks later Phillips left for Westminster as the MP for Birmingham Yardley. So the council's champion for victims was in post while her own council was told it had buried a report into the rape of girls in its care, and while it cleared itself. Phillips then went on to become the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls. As minister she rejected Oldham's request for a government-led inquiry into the rape gangs. The government she served in refused a national inquiry until Casey's audit forced its hand in June 2025. What did Birmingham's Victims' Champion do in 2014 and 2015 about the Jesson Report? What did she do to find out who ordered the copies destroyed, and who protected the men? And when she had the power as a minister to send an inquiry into her own city, why did she refuse? A national statutory inquiry now has the power to compel Birmingham City Council to surrender its records and answer questions under oath. When Jess Phillips was Birmingham's Victims' Champion, what did she do to uncover what had happened to the Jesson Report? What did she do to establish who protected the men exploiting girls in her city's care? AND BIRMINGHAM TODAY. 143 children identified as at risk of, or experiencing, sexual exploitation. More than half of them had repeatedly gone missing. 98 live investigations. Six assessed as group-based. Two private hire drivers stripped of their licences following police intelligence about potential sexual offences against children. The council's published figures still omit the ethnicity and nationality of the suspects. Under pressure, Birmingham City Council has republished what it calls the Jesson Report. But what it has released is the version placed before councillors in 1995, complete with Richard Evans's paper warning against "voyeuristic intrusion". THE ORIGINAL, UNALTERED REPORT THAT JESSON SAYS SHE WROTE BEFORE THE ETHNICITY OF THE MEN WAS REMOVED HAS STILL NOT BEEN PUBLISHED. The national inquiry must establish what happened to the girls in Jesson's report, what was ever done about the men, and why the council treated its own findings as something to defend itself against. Read the investigation here: redwallandtherabble.co.uk/fo… I SHARE ALL OF MY CONTENT FOR FREE. THERE ARE NO PAYWALLS TO ACCESS ANY OF MY WORK. Unfortunately, we are reaching the end of the road where I can continue working this way. The paid subscriptions have stalled. Worse, tens of thousands of people are now reading these articles without even joining the free mailing list or even following my pages on X or Facebook. The audience is growing, but the number of people actually standing behind the work is not growing with it. This is becoming impossible to sustain. You know what we are up against. The mainstream media will not touch my work. Institutions I investigate do not volunteer their records. Politicians do not suddenly decide to hold themselves to account. And yet, despite all of that, we forced the national inquiry. We did that because enough ordinary people refused to go away. But getting the inquiry was never the end of this campaign. In many ways it was only the beginning. Now we have to watch where it goes, what it investigates, which places it avoids, which witnesses it calls, which records it obtains and whether the same institutions that failed these children are allowed to control the story again. Nobody else is going to do that work for us. And I cannot do it indefinitely working on my own. That is why I keep talking about 50,000 committed subscribers. It is not a vanity number. I did not pluck it out of the air. With fifty thousand people with me means when we uncover something important, it does not depend on a newspaper editor, a television producer or an algorithm deciding whether you are allowed to see it. It gives us reach they cannot easily shut down. But there is another reason. I need to build a proper backroom operation around this work. At the moment I am investigating, researching, writing, publishing, producing the videos, running the newsletter, dealing with the technology and then starting again. It is unsustainable. I need people behind me who can take care of the technical and production work so that I can spend my time doing the thing I do best. That is why we have been pushing so hard for new paid subscribers. 🔴 SIGN UP HERE 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk If you read my work and want it to continue, I need your help. Sign up for free. There are no paywalls to access any of my work. If you can afford the £3 a month or £30 for the year, please become a paid subscriber. We forced the inquiry. Now we need the numbers to make sure they cannot control what happens next. Raja Miah MBE