BIRMINGHAM COUNCIL TOOK THE RAPISTS OUT OF ITS OWN REPORT. THIRTY-FIVE YEARS LATER, IT WANTS TO DECIDE WHAT THE NATIONAL INQUIRY SEES. In 1990, Birmingham City Council commissioned research into girls being raped and sexually exploited while in its own care. The researcher, Dr Jill Jesson, says she was ordered to remove evidence about the men involved. Copies of her report were to be destroyed. In 1995, councillors voted against investigating what happened. In 2015, a senior council official declared there had been no cover-up. The officials in charge went on to bigger jobs, honours and positions of power. The girls were left betrayed. No one knows what happened to the men that lined up to take their turns on them or how many there were. Now Birmingham has finally been forced onto the national statutory inquiry. But the council that stands accused of burying the evidence wants to decide which historic reports it republishes. As if the accused institution should ever be allowed to control the evidence against itself. Today I am launching THE RAPE GANG FILES, a new investigation series exposing what happened, who knew, who covered it up, why they did it and who benefited. We begin with Birmingham. Thirty-five years. No answers under oath. And a national inquiry that must not be allowed to look away. Read the Birmingham investigation. redwallandtherabble.co.uk/th… PLEASE SHARE THIS. We have only got this far because we forced them. Or do you think Jess Phillips willingly supported the national inquiry? _________ The National Inquiry is entering the phase that will decide not just where it goes, but what it is prepared to confront once it gets there. Birmingham proves why that matters. We fought to get the city onto the list. Now, before the first witnesses have even been heard, a Pakistani politician is already trying to decide which questions should be pushed out of focus. That is why the pressure cannot stop at getting places named. Red Wall and the Rabble is now more than 15,000 strong. In the last three months, more than 1,000 people have committed to a paid subscription, and 250,000 people have read one of my investigations so far this year. We forced Oldham onto the list. We showed the way in Bradford. We campaigned relentlessly in Birmingham and across Wales, and both were named. None of it was handed to us. And now the next fight begins. Making sure the Inquiry actually asks the questions politicians and institutions spent decades avoiding. No political party funds this work. No institution stands behind me. Everything I publish remains free because the evidence needs to reach as many people as possible. The people who pay are the people who give me the independence to keep investigating, keep applying pressure and keep forcing these questions into the open. We set out to reach 2,000 paid subscribers. We still need another 1,000 more. 🔴 Sign Up Here redwallandtherabble.co.uk If you want this Inquiry to go where the evidence leads, regardless of who it embarrasses, who it exposes or which political interests it threatens, become one of the next 1,000. I cannot do this without you. Raja Miah MBE