BURNHAM HASN’T STOPPED RAPISTS BEING RELEASED EARLY. HE HAS STOPPED RELEASING THEM EVEN EARLIER

LABOUR WANTED RAPISTS OUT AFTER A THIRD. NOW THEY CALL HALFWAY A CRACKDOWN

FIONA GODDARD HEARD 133 YEARS OF SENTENCES. NONE OF HER ABUSERS WILL SERVE MORE THAN TEN.

Nine men. Twenty years. Twenty years. Seventeen. Seventeen. Seventeen. Seventeen. Sixteen. Seven. Eighteen months. That is what Bradford Crown Court announced in February 2019 for the men who raped and abused Fiona Goddard, from the age of fourteen, while she was in the care of Bradford Council. Add them up and you get nearly 133 years. Fiona sat in that courtroom and heard every one of them read out.

Now look at when those men actually leave prison.

EVERY SENTENCE WAS HALVED THE DAY THE JUDGE PASSED IT

Every one of the nine was sentenced before the April 2020 change that pushed serious offenders to two thirds. So every one of them was on automatic release at half from the day the judge sat down. Nobody said so in court. Nobody reported it.

Twenty became ten. Seventeen became eight and a half. Sixteen became eight. Seven became three and a half. Eighteen months became nine.

• Basharat Khaliq, five counts of rape and assault by penetration, 20 years, serves ten.
• Saeed Akhtar, rape and inciting child prostitution, 20 years, serves ten.
• Naveed Akhtar, two counts of rape, 17 years, serves eight and a half.
• Parvaze Ahmed, three counts of rape, 17 years, serves eight and a half.
• Kieran Harris, 17 years for two counts of rape. Eight and a half years served.
• Izar Hussain, rape and attempted rape, 16 years, serves eight.
• Mohammed Usman, two counts of rape, 17 years cut to 15 on appeal, serves seven and a half.
• Fahim Iqbal, aiding and abetting rape, seven years, serves three and a half.
• Zeeshan Ali, 18 months for one count of sexual assault, serves nine months.

Put the custodial halves together and the nine men serve about 65 years between them for nearly 133 announced. The longest any of them serves is ten. That is what the 133 years announced actually bought.

‘I thought I can rebuild my life, I can get on with stuff, and then the reality is they are out in just seven to eight years...It feels like a very big slap in the face, and I know I am not the only victim of rape going through this.’

THREE OF THE NINE ARE ALREADY OUT AND THE REST FOLLOW BY 2029

Zeeshan Ali was out by 2020.

Fahim Iqbal was released after roughly three and a half years. In June 2026 he was jailed for 12 years for his part in a planned machete attack in which a 23-year-old man nearly lost his leg.

Mohammed Usman, who had his sentence cut on appeal after citing charity work done in Pakistan while he was a fugitive from these charges, walked out on 24 August after seven and a half years.

Four more reach their halfway points in 2027. Hussain around February. Naveed Akhtar in the summer, and on Fiona's account of her Victim Liaison calls his date is July, with a decision being made now on an open prison and day release before it. Ahmed in the summer. Harris in the summer.

By February 2029, Khaliq and Saeed Akhtar, the two men given twenty years, will have reached theirs.

Then there will be nobody left.

Three of these men are free while the national inquiry into how Fiona was left in their reach is still under way. Bradford is on its list.

BURNHAM'S EXCLUSION MOVES NONE OF THESE DATES

Rape was added to the Government's excluded list on 4 August. Usman was released twenty days later.

That did not breach the exclusion. Naveed Akhtar's July 2027 release will not breach it either. Nor will the release of the two twenty-year men when they reach their existing dates in 2029.

Burnham did not extend their sentences. He stopped his new law shortening them again. Then he called that excluding rapists from early release.

The deceit did not begin with Burnham. He inherited a system that announces one sentence and serves another. His contribution was to call preserving that system a crackdown.

USMAN WALKED OUT TWENTY DAYS AFTER BURNHAM EXCLUDED RAPISTS

I have spent eight years watching what happens between the sentence a judge announces and the day the prison gate opens. I have not found a cleaner example than this one.

Fiona Goddard heard nearly 133 years of sentences passed against the men who abused her. The longest any of them will serve is ten. One walked out on 24 August, twenty days after the Prime Minister told the country rapists had been excluded from early release. That is what his word is worth.

Only after public outrage has Andy Burnham stopped his new law further shortening the sentences of the men who gang raped and trafficked little White girls. Labour's plan was to reduce the sentences to 1/3. So a member of the Pakistani rape gangs would serve only 3 years of a 9 year sentence.

The establishment media are spinning this as a success. The truth is Burnham has not excluding these rapists from early release. Every one of them will be released after serving just half their sentences.

Both Labour and the Conservatives are complicit here. As with the original rape gang cover up, both political parties are responsible for the early release of men who gang raped little girls.

Both Restore and Reform have an opportunity here. Whether they take it is yet to be seen. The obvious policy includes;

1. Mandatory minimum sentences for men who are involved in the rape of children
2. Barring dangerous criminals from early release schemes
3. Automatic deportation of all foreign and dual nationals at the end of their sentences
   None of this is extreme. Nor is any of this difficult to implement. Yet at each stage we have had to drag the government kicking and screaming to act. It will be the same here.

ASK YOUR MP

Two questions, in writing, with this list attached.

Do you support mandatory minimum sentences for the killers of police officers, for rapists and for those who abuse children?

Do you support a change in the law so that, for a named list of offences, the sentence announced in court is the sentence served, with no release at any fraction?

Ask for a yes or a no on each, and ask which of the nine dates above they are comfortable with. Publish the reply.

For eight years I have exposed how politicians, police and public bodies failed working class White girls who were systematically raped by Pakistani grooming gangs. Together, with the support of the people of Oldham, we forced the Government to concede a National Statutory Inquiry after years of resistance.

Now the harder fight begins.

Andy Burnham is no longer the Mayor of Greater Manchester. He is the Prime Minister. That does not place him beyond scrutiny. If anything, it makes scrutiny more important than ever.

As Mayor, Burnham commissioned a series of Assurance Reviews across Greater Manchester, including one in my hometown of Oldham. They were presented as a search for the truth. They were nothing of the sort. They were cover ups of cover ups that allowed those responsible to escape proper accountability.

Don't take my word for it. Even former Greater Manchester Police detective Maggie Oliver has described what happened in Oldham as 'nothing short of a cover up'.

Despite every effort to stop us, we forced a National Inquiry. Now Burnham and others are attempting to rewrite the history of what happened under their watch.
At present, the inquiry has made no commitment to examine Burnham's own role or the decisions taken during his time as Mayor. That must change before the Oldham investigations begin.

The pressure to protect a serving Prime Minister will be immense. The institutions that failed these girls will have every incentive to avoid putting the country's most powerful politician under oath. Much of the media will once again find reasons to look the other way.

That is why this campaign cannot slow down now.

For too long this has been a one man operation. It needs to become something much bigger. We need the resources to build a genuinely independent investigative organisation with:

• A professional website capable of reaching far larger audiences.
• Video production that takes our investigations to millions more people.
• Research support so no lead is left unexplored.
• Live events to educate, organise and train others.
• The resources to investigate, travel and expose institutional failure wherever it is found.

Over the last two months we have secured over 1,000 paid supporters towards our target of 2,000. That is an incredible achievement. Every new supporter strengthens this campaign, increases our voice and makes it harder for those in power to ignore the evidence.

If you believe the truth should be followed wherever it leads, please stand with us.

Should we succeed, politicians will go to prison. Even if there is only the smallest chance of this happening, isn't it worth your support?

Raja Miah MBE