The Man Who Walks Free While Children's Screams Echo in Oldham's Streets

There's something obscene about watching a man campaign for re-election when he should be sitting in an inquiry dock, answering for the suffering of children. Yet there was Jim McMahon MP this week, door-knocking alongside Lucy Powell in Denton and Gorton, all smiles and handshakes, as if the ghosts of Oldham's betrayed children weren't clinging to his shadow.

McMahon, the former leader of Oldham Council, owes his parliamentary seat to the bloc Muslim vote. That political dependency has proved more valuable to him than the safety of White working-class girls. Under his watch as council leader, Oldham became a hunting ground where predators operated with near impunity. The institution charged with protecting children protected their abusers instead.

The evidence is not ambiguous. It is not contested in good faith by anyone who has examined it. Children were dragged off the streets in broad daylight and taken into shisha bars where they were raped. Think about that sentence until it sickens you as it should. Daylight. Main streets. Known men operating openly, confident that no one would stop them.

Outside school gates, cars idled with engines running and rapists waiting. Waiting for what they called "fresh meat." Children whose journey home from lessons should have been unremarkable ended in the back seats of vehicles, in the kind of horror that rewires a child's nervous system forever.

The children in care? Those most vulnerable? The children's homes became child brothels. Places of supposed safety transformed into supply chains for organised rape. People wearing badges of professional responsibility knew what was happening. They filed reports. They attended meetings. They did nothing.

McMahon and his Labour-run council knew. The evidence trail is conclusive. They knew what was taking place in their town, in their institutions, under their authority. They made a choice. They chose to protect "community relations" over children's bodies. They chose political calculation over moral duty.

When we started campaigning for justice, when we dared to name what was happening and demand answers, the full machinery of institutional retaliation was deployed against us. We were criminalised. Arrested. Branded far-right and racist. The same police force that couldn't find resources to protect children being raped in broad daylight somehow found abundant resources to arrest those documenting what happened.

This pattern has repeated across Britain's towns and cities. Rotherham knew. Rochdale knew. Telford knew. The script is always the same: abuse, cover-up, demonisation of those who dare to speak. Oldham under McMahon's leadership perfected the dark art of institutional betrayal while maintaining a progressive facade.

McMahon walks free. He campaigns openly. He knocks on doors and asks for votes. He stands next to Cabinet ministers and smiles for photographs. Why? Because he believes he is protected. The evidence so far suggests he is right to believe that. No charges. No inquiry testimony. Just the comfortable continuation of a political career built on the broken bodies of children who were beneath his concern.

A rigged national inquiry will not save McMahon and the thousands like him in the Labour Party. The mealy-mouthed establishment stitch-up currently being designed in Whitehall will not provide the cover they are counting on. The political weather is changing.

Nuremberg-style Rape Gang Trials will appear in party manifestos at the next general election. Serious commitment to justice that voters will demand and politicians will be forced to deliver. The public's patience with institutional protection rackets has expired. The tolerance for smooth-tongued politicians who enabled the industrial-scale abuse of children is gone.

Justice is coming. Real justice. The kind that names names, produces defendants, delivers verdicts. The kind that treats the rape of children as the most serious crime a society can fail to prevent.

Jim McMahon should be in a dock, not on a doorstep. So should thousands of others. That day is closer than he thinks.

I’m Raja Miah MBE. For seven years, I led a campaign that exposed how senior Labour politicians helped protect Pakistani rape gangs and helped force a national inquiry.

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