When Power Fears Truth
Andy Burnham wants to be Prime Minister. If I had my way, he’d be one of the first names on Maggie Oliver’s list of private prosecutions.
The Weaponising of Andy Burnham's Rape Gang Protecting Police Force
The hammering on the door came before dawn.
Eight officers from Greater Manchester Police stormed my home that morning. The opening move in what would become a three-year psychological siege. Behind them stood the invisible architects: senior figures within Andy Burnham's Labour Party controlled Oldham Council. They launched this assault not because I posed any danger, but because I asked questions they couldn't afford to have answered.
Jack Tooth
Today, the systematic cover-up of the Pakistani rape gangs across Britain dominates global headlines. International media outlets report on the horrors that children endured while authorities looked away. But this reckoning wouldn't exist had some of us not risked everything to speak truth to power. When I first raised the alarm, powerful forces mobilised to destroy my life rather than address the crimes. The world now knows what happened in Oldham, Rochdale, Rotherham and many other towns and cities only because voices like mine refused to be silenced.
For six months, I lived under house arrest in everything but name. My bail conditions were designed to crush, not contain. I wasn't a flight risk. I had no criminal history, only a record of public service that had earned me commendations. Ask Burnham about this. Watch him squirm, unable to justify why they treated a citizen this way.
While fighting this battle, I lost my mother. Her final words weren't peaceful goodbyes but terrified warnings. She was afraid that prison gates would close behind me. Afraid that the gangsters who followed my car while my daughter sat strapped in the back would finally make good on their intimidation. Afraid that the Islamists who boasted of their Labour Party links would fulfil their jihad against me.
I don't come from this world. Unlike the network surrounding the Labour Party, my family's legacy isn't built on fear. When I refused to surrender and plead guilty, the system revealed its true face. My original lawyers, a respected firm, suddenly abandoned my case. Every solicitor in Greater Manchester turned me away one by one. I still have their rejection emails, digital breadcrumbs revealing a coordinated freeze-out. On my first trial date, I stood alone in court, defenceless against the state's machinery. Only divine intervention brought me lawyers brave enough to challenge the established narrative.
The prosecution's case didn't just weaken, it spectacularly imploded. The first case collapsed when Council leader Arooj Shah refused to testify against me. She knew her evidence had been fabricated. Her claim of PTSD and her face drooping on one side as a consequence of my lawful campaigning would not stand up to cross examination. Nor would her claim that an old man chasing her down the street, after she’d knocked on his door campaigning during lockdown, would any way be held accountable to me.
The second trial rumbled on for 3 years. It involved a woman called Gail Hadfield Grainger. She was a close friend of Arooj Shah and also a Labour Party campaigner. She fled the country before trial, claiming she was scattering her mother’s ashes.
John Scheerhout
The Crown Prosecution Service attempted the unthinkable: they tried to proceed without allowing cross-examination. Their "evidence" consisted of a fraudulent transcript produced by Gail Hadfield Grainger from a YouTube video that neither the police nor prosecutors had bothered to watch. The judge saw through this charade and dismissed the case entirely.
This wasn't a random failure of justice - it was a calculated strike to silence opposition. The Labour Party, Oldham Council, Greater Manchester Police, and the Crown Prosecution Service orchestrated an extraordinary conspiracy to make me an example for others who might speak out.
Now that the scandal has erupted onto the world stage, politicians scramble to distance themselves from their complicity. But where were they when children were being trafficked? Where were their condemnations when I faced persecution for exposing these crimes? The international outrage we see today only exists because an ordinary citizen risked everything to bring these horrors to light.
Their media allies provided crucial support. Manchester Evening News photographers positioned themselves outside court to capture my humiliation. The Oldham Times published a fabricated headline linking me to child sexual exploitation investigations. A deliberate character assassination. When I challenged this media manipulation, GMP raided my home again, arresting me on manufactured charges of "inciting rape” against a reporter. I defended myself and their phantom case quietly vanished.
As their formal tactics failed, extremists with direct connections to the Labour Party published my home address and openly called for violence against me. Their likely motive? Protecting those who helped cover up the systematic gang rapes of white working-class girls in Oldham. I reported every threat to police, but instead of protecting me, they arrested me again.
During my most recent dawn arrest, GMP practically admitted their political motivation: they were racing to have me remanded in custody before local elections to prevent me campaigning in the local elections. The irony? I was actually the victim. I had reported the crime. They arrested me instead of the Labour Party protected Islamist that had incited my murder. After detaining me all day, they had no choice but to release me. They never arrested the Islamist. You can ask Andy Burnham why.
I now understand why so many innocent people plead guilty when facing the system's might. The weight of the state machinery breaks people. It's designed to. But every morning, looking in the mirror, I see someone who refused to break. Despite everything Andy Burnham's politically weaponised police force unleashed, I remain standing.
Without those of us who withstood this persecution, would these crimes ever have seen the light of day? Would the international community know how authorities abandoned little White girls to Pakistani Rape Gangs? The headlines crossing continents today exist only because some refused to be intimidated into silence.
For those fighting similar battles against powerful interests: hold the line. The system seems all-powerful, but truth possesses greater endurance.
Andy Burnham's police force tried to silence me because I dared speak about children being gang-raped. Yet here I stand, more determined than ever. And now the world knows what they tried to hide.
Andy Burnham wants to be Prime Minister. If I had my way, he’d be one of the first names on Maggie Oliver’s list of private prosecutions.
Raja Miah MBE
My name is Raja Miah.
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