An Open Letter to Tom Crowther KC

The £1 Million Whitewash: Exposing Oldham's Sham Inquiry

Mr. Crowther,

Let us be absolutely clear: your appointment to lead the Oldham child sexual exploitation inquiry with a paltry £1 million budget and no statutory powers is nothing but a calculated continuation of the very cover-up we have fought against for years. The transparent attempt to replicate your Telford model, widely recognised as an exercise in damage control rather than justice, reveals the government's true intention: to silence our movement while protecting those responsible.

We have exposed Oldham's child sexual exploitation scandal to global attention through relentless campaigning that has toppled three successive council leaders and decimated Labour's control of our town. We have forced every councillor to defy the government and vote for statutory powers. Yet here you stand, preparing to oversee what amounts to a whitewash by design.

Your Telford Inquiry exemplifies how to create the appearance of accountability while delivering none. It protected perpetrators through anonymity, shielded officials who enabled abuse, and buried racially uncomfortable truths beneath bureaucratic language. This deliberate obscuring of justice may have succeeded in Telford, but it will not succeed here.

The proposed structure for Oldham's inquiry is transparently engineered to fail. How can you possibly deliver a thorough investigation with £1 million when Telford cost by your own admission £5 million? The answer is obvious: you cannot and are not meant to. This budget constraint alone exposes the inquiry as a cynical performance rather than a genuine pursuit of truth.

Your acceptance of these conditions makes you complicit in this cover-up. By agreeing to lead an inquiry without statutory powers to compel testimony under oath, without the mandate to name both perpetrators and those who protected them, and without explicit recognition of either the racially motivated nature of these crimes or the political nature of the exchange that facilitated this, you become not an instrument of justice but a tool of continued institutional evasion.

We demand to know:

• Will you name the perpetrators who committed these crimes and the officials who orchestrated their cover-up?
• Will you expose how senior politicians in Oldham maintained close friendships and associations with the ringleaders of rape gangs?
• Will you reveal how children were effectively exchanged for electoral support?
• Will you investigate how Andy Burnham's police force, acting on direct instructions from Labour Party politicians, launched Operation Hexagon - a coordinated attempt to silence and imprison the very whistleblowers who sought to expose these crimes?
• Will you investigate how Greater Manchester Police was mobilised by Labour Party politicians and Oldham Council officers to silence lawful campaigners?
• Will you investigate how the local press, including the Manchester Evening News and the Oldham Times, partnered with Labour Party politicians to smear and discredit whistleblowers?
• Will you confirm that race was weaponised as a political shield by senior politicians in the town?
• Will you investigate the specific roles that Angela Rayner (Deputy Prime Minister), Andy Burnham (Gtr Manchester Mayor), Jim McMahon MP, and Debbie Abrahams MP played in this cover-up?
• Will you investigate the specific roles that Oldham Council leaders Sean Fielding, Amanda Chadderton and Arooj Shah played in this cover up including their attempts to try and silence campaigners including trying to have them sacked from their jobs and even working with Gtr Manchester Police to try and maliciously prosecute them?
• How do you propose to handle the fact that Oldham's council leader Arooj Shah openly associates with a convicted heroin dealer who served as getaway driver for a cop killer? Are you aware that this man that has been repeatedly convicted for attempting to silence a campaigner? Have you seen the leaked video footage of Shah's unlocked car being blown up or read the Daily Mail article where Jim McMahon used the incident to try and frame a campaigner for what took place?
• What about the new chief executive Shelly Kipling? Will you investigate her role as part of the very communications team involved in covering up the gang rape of children?
• Will you acknowledge, not how fears of cultural insensitivity, but rather how protecting the Muslim bloc vote influenced authorities decisions to cover up these horrific crimes and facilitated the continuing gang rape of little White girls?
• Will you recognise that working with survivors is not enough and that any legitimate inquiry requires the active involvement of experienced campaigners and whistleblowers whose actions forced the government to act?
• Will you even commit to the simple task of providing us with a number of how many children were groomed and gang raped in the town?

If you cannot commit to these fundamental principles of justice, your reputation will join those of the powerful figures we have already exposed. Make no mistake, our campaign has destroyed the careers of politicians, police chiefs, and public officials who chose institutional protection over truth. Those who underestimated our resolve have seen their public standing irreparably damaged.

You stand exposed at this crossroads. Either refuse this sham inquiry and stand with truth, or proceed and be permanently associated with one of Britain's most shameful institutional cover-ups. The former path offers integrity; the latter guarantees your professional legacy will be defined by complicity in injustice.
The survivors deserve better. The public deserves better. And you, Mr. Crowther, should know better.

Sincerely,
Raja Miah MBE

We are now entering a crucial phase of the campaign. We have exposed what really happened, Now, we need to make sure that those responsible are held to account.

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