Oldham Council Demanded I Stop Calling Shabir Ahmed A Paedophile Or Else
A Crown Court called him a child rapist. Oldham Council's lawyers called it harassment.
Yesterday evening I published the paperwork behind Oldham Council's attempt to silence me, and I think people skimmed past the worst of it. Among the statements their lawyers demanded I stop making was that Shabir Ahmed, ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang and an Oldham Council employee with access to children, is a paedophile.
The man who confirmed instructing those lawyers was Alexander Bougatef. He is now the Council Monitoring Officer, the most senior legal officer in Oldham Council
The letter Alexander Bougatef commissioned from Browne Jacobson listed the things Oldham Council wanted a court to stop me saying. One of them was that Shabir Ahmed is a paedophile.
Shabir Ahmed. The ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang. Convicted of raping and trafficking children. And an Oldham Council employee, in a job that put him near children, which nobody in that building ever intended you to know. There was no press release. There was no statement. I found it, I published it, and Oldham Council's answer was to hire a national law firm to try and stop me repeating it.
The letter demands I refrain from suggesting "without any proper basis" that people connected to the council may be paedophiles. Without any proper basis. The basis was a Crown Court conviction. His lawyers knew that when they typed it, because I had cited the conviction every time I named him. They sent it anyway. I suspect the Council spent tens of thousands of pounds of tax payers money attempted to scare me into silence.
For 8 years I've exposed how politicians and police covered up the gang rape of working-class White girls by Pakistani grooming gangs. I, with the support of the people of Oldham, led the campaign that forced the National Inquiry. Now, with your help, we will force this inquiry to a place it does not want to go.
As Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham fronted a series of Assurance Reviews of which one was in my hometown of Oldham. It was a cover-up of a cover-up. It tried to bury the truth. Don't believe me? Ask Maggie Oliver. Even she has come to the same conclusion.
Despite Burnham's efforts to help hide what took place, we forced a national inquiry. Whilst previously defending the robustness of his now exposed cover up, Burnham is now trying his best to rewrite the truth of what he really did.
Unfortunately, as of yet, the national inquiry will not investigate Burnham or his actions and his deceit will go unchallenged. We hope to change this before the investigation starts in Oldham.
Once Burnham is in Downing Street, the pressure to protect him will be immense. The institutions that failed these girls will try everything possible not to hold a PM accountable. Much of the press will look away, as always. This is why it is up to us to carry the truth.
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A Councillor Convicted, A Borough Never Told
The other man I exposed was Rod Blyth. A Liberal Democrat councillor in this borough for over twenty years, convicted of serious child sexual offences. Twenty years an elected member, and when he was convicted, nothing.
I could find no statement from the council he served. Nothing from GMP. Nothing from the Manchester Evening News, which has never once struggled to find space for my name. A councillor of two decades goes down for child sex offences and it is kept secret from the people of the town that elected him. Hidden from the families that gave him access to their children.
That silence held until I broke it. Go ask Andy Burnham why his police force failed to release a statement. Ask the same of the CPS or the editor of the Manchester Evening News why they helped hide the story until after I exposed it. Let me know what they say.
So count it up. Two convicted paedophiles inside Oldham Council. One on the payroll, one in the chamber. Every institution in this town kept quiet about both of them. I made both public. And the council, instead of launching investigations into whether these men had used their positions to abuse children, reached for its lawyers, and the lawyers were pointed at me.
Think about the choice inside that decision. A convicted child trafficker drew a council wage and the legal department's energy went into the man who said so out loud.
I have the evidence from Bougatef himself that he instructing the law firm that came after me. So do others. He copied it to every councillor in Oldham. They all knew what was being attempted. Not one spoke out. Not one.
This man is now the Monitoring Officer. I call him Backdoor Bougatef because he was appointed without due process into one of the most senior positions in the council. I'll leave it to you to decide how that came to be.
When the National Inquiry comes to Oldham, Alexander Bougatef MUST be called to testify and answer for his actions. Why did he hire a law firm to try and take out an injunction against me for exposing paedophiles within Oldham Council? Of which one of them was Shabir Ahmed.
I’m Raja Miah. For over seven years, I have led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs. Before that, I spent over a decade trying to stop violent extremists exploiting abandoned communities.
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