Justice For Ellie? – New Developments

The UK grooming scandal, better described as the Muslim paedophile rape of hundreds of thousands of British girls, increased in profile recently as Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips refused calls from Oldham Council for a national enquiry. As the representative of a Muslim-dominated constituency and serving under Prime Minister Keir Starmer – the inactive head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) earlier in the scandal – Phillips is hopelessly compromised.

Furthermore, the MP for Birmingham Yardley showed contempt for young victims of sexual abuse when referring to events during New Year 2015 in Cologne. Packs of immigrant men mobbing and sexually assaulting hundreds of women reminded Phillips of any Saturday night in Birmingham’s Broad Street. This time around, Elon Musk entered the debate with a continuing series of tweets expressing shock and condemnation, accusing Starmer of being “complicit in the rape of Britain” for failing to prosecute effectively during his tenure at the CPS.

Among the resulting coverage, and by no coincidence, the case of Cumbrian girl Ellie Williams is once again profiling in mainstream media. Ellie found herself in the dock in 2023 following allegations she made to the police across a period of three years that culminated in viral Facebook posts and photographs that an injured Ellie posted in 2020. These resulted in a ‘Justice For Ellie’ campaign, demonstrations and social unrest in her native Barrow-in-Furness. They also resulted in Ellie being accused of self-inflicting her injuries.

Convicted of perverting the course of justice and sentenced to a lengthy prison sentence, a documentary entitled ‘Liar: The Fake Grooming Scandal’ was broadcast in July 2024 and now sits on the BBC iPlayer. A new Channel 4 series called ‘Accused, The Fake Grooming Scandal’ debuted this 7th January.

Going Postal covered Ellie’s story after her sentencing in March 2023 when she received eight and a half years for making ‘false’ grooming accusations against a number of men, mostly from the Barrow area. Although the police and mainstream media maintained there was no grooming problem in Barrow, it is their position that is fake and false.

Following the publication of G-P’s sceptical article, ‘Justice For Ellie?’, which can be read here, this correspondent received further evidence contradicting the MSM and police narrative. For legal reasons regarding subsequent court proceedings, a planned follow-up piece had to be delayed. That long drawn-out case is now complete, therefore we can return to the issue.

At the time of Ellie’s accusations and the police denial, another girl, who we shall call Miss A, said the police did know of grooming in the area as she told them. In 2019, when aged fourteen, Miss A took a part-time job at the Bangla Lounge on Cavendish Street, a row of grubby takeaways and restaurants close to the centre of the northern ship-building town. Much older Muslim staff befriended Miss A, with the attention she received becoming unwanted and then culminating in a sexual assault from which she fled and after which she contacted the police.

When confronted, the zero-star hygiene-rated Bangla Lounge claimed, without any evidence, Miss A was a disgruntled former employee caught stealing from the till. Miss A and her family persisted, and two and a half years later Mohammed Ghulam Kibryia, by then a 52-year-old resident of Birch Hall Lane, Manchester, pleaded guilty to sexual touching her. After this, other victims came forward.

Social media messages circulated in the area warning of gangs of Asian men aged between 20 and 60 from Yorkshire who were grooming children in Barrow, Dalton and Ulverston. Starting with girls eight and above, platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram were being used to cultivate children.

The assault against Miss A took place in June 2019 and yet a BBC piece on 21st May 2020, quoting Cumbria Police, was headlined, ‘Barrow Asian Grooming Gang Investigation Finds No Evidence.’ As we shall see, plenty of evidence was available and must have been known to the BBC and the police for at least a decade before Miss A’s ordeal. In the article the police were quoted as saying,

“When a question is asked, is there an organised gang of Asian men in Barrow conducting abuse or otherwise exploitation against individuals, our investigation has shown that that has not been corroborated or otherwise evidenced.”

This was a lie.

Another girl groomed, sexually touched and subsequently raped and trafficked was Ellie-ann Reynolds. In 2018, two years before the Cumbia Constabulary and BBC whitewash, Ellie-ann went to the police to report the abuse she was suffering. Three days later, and in an echo of what was to happen to her namesake, Ellie Williams, Cumbria Police arrested her. Ellie-ann faced charges of committing blackmail between March 3rd and 6th 2018 – dates just prior to her visit to the police.

Armed with a pro bono barrister, Chris Daws of Manchester’s prestigious Lincoln Chambers, and a document from the Home Office’s Single Competent Authority adjudicating conclusive grounds to accept she was a victim of modern slavery, Ellie-ann fought the police and CPS and won. On 19th April 2020, she was cleared at Preston Crown Court of making a demand of money with menaces.

In an extended interview with Channel 4 News, presenter Jackie Long said Ellie-ann made threats regarding a £200 debt, however following the hearing, and three years after her legal ordeal started, an elated Ellie-ann commented, ‘I was acquitted from court on the basis of no evidence. Yep, that’s right. They never had anything in the first place.’ Maggie Oliver, a former detective and Rochdale scandal whistleblower added on Twitter, ‘Three years of hell for the family, and the injustice and time lost, who will be held accountable? Nobody! Again!’

This brings us to the drawn-out case which delayed part two of G-P’s ‘Justice For Ellie? [Williams]’ article. Following Ellie-ann Reynold’s acquittal and Ellie Williams’s arrest, in August 2020 three men were charged with historical sexual abuse in Barrow following a joint investigation between the Cumbria and Yorkshire forces. The men were amongst those who abused Ellie-ann Reynolds, though, as we shall see, Ellie-anne’s case was not included amongst the charges.

Those men were Shaha Amran Miah, Shaha Alman Miah and Shaha Joman Miah. Shaha Joman Miah, also known as Sarj, was one of the men referred to in Ellie Williams’ allegations. Besides her own previously expressed comments, third parties have forwarded further evidence of an exploitative connection between Ellie Williams and Sarj Miah to this investigator.

Low-key media coverage ominously described two of the accused as being of no fixed abode. The suspicion arose that confusing combinations of their first and middle names, and the peripatetic lifestyle inherent in the Muslim nighttime economy might allow the suspects to be tried well away from the North West and under unfamiliar names. In the event, a different tactic emerged, that of prolonging the legal proceedings. This backfired as grooming scandals continue to catch the headlines almost four and a half years after the Miahs were charged.

After the hearing in 2020, the case disappeared before reappearing as a full trial in July 2023, four months after Ellie’s sentencing. Taking place at Preston Crown Court, the trial lasted for an astonishing one year and three months. This included the proceedings stopping and recommencing as a second trial. The defendants stood accused of indecently assaulting girls as young as six from 1996 to 2008 in Leeds. Plus a series of assaults in Barrow, but only between 2008 and 2010 – a decade before the crimes that victimised Ellie-ann Reynolds and Ellie Williams.

Having moved to Barrow from Leeds in 2008, Sarj Miah stood accused of repeatedly raping a local girl from age 13. At one point he moved in with her and her mother, an alcohol and drug abuser. Sarj Miah’s older brother, Alman, also raped the girl when she was 15. That girl spoke to Cumbria police in late 2009 about what was going on with the accused, but no charges were brought.

At the time, Keir Starmer was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service. Looking back at the then strategy in a radio interview a decade later, former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England Nazir Afzal said:

“Back in 2008 the Home Office sent a circular to all police forces saying as far as these young girls who are being exploited in their towns and cities, we believe they have made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour. It’s not for you police officers to get involved in.”

After the 15-month-long trial, October 2024 saw the Miahs found guilty of non-recent child sex offences committed in Barrow and Leeds between 1996 and 2010. Shaha Amran Miah was guilty of seven indecent assaults, seven counts of indecency with a child, one rape of a child, one kidnapping, two counts of intimidation and one of sexual assault.

Shaha Alman Miah was guilty of three charges of sexual activity with a child.

Shaha Joman ‘Sarj’ Miah was guilty of eight indecent assaults, four counts of indecency with a child, three charges of sexual activity with a child, five charges of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, nine rapes of a child, six sexual assaults of a child and five counts of sexual activity with a child.

According to the Crown Prosecution Service website,

“The CPS worked with Cumbria Police to build a strong case to put before the jury, including eye-witness testimony and extensive phone evidence. The strength of the evidence was such that the jury found the men guilty.”

However, Cumbria Police and the CPS having prosecuted Ellie Williams, tried to prosecute Ellie-ann Reynolds, ignored Miah’s victim in 2009 and ignored all offences committed after 2010, Going-Postal can reveal the impetus behind the prosecutions came from the Yorkshire force and then only because two victims were Muslims assaulted in a Leeds mosque.

The Miahs will return to court on 21st February 2025 for sentencing. The severity or otherwise of the punishment imposed may be revealing. It should be noted that during Jackie Long’s interview with Ellie-ann, the presenter mentioned, without elaboration, a number of times when gang members ‘inexplicably’ found out about contact between the Barrow police and victims.

Therefore, the position last October was that Ellie was in jail for perverting the course of justice while at least one of the people she claimed had harmed her had been found guilty of such offences. Ridiculous even by modern-day British legal standards, Ellie Williams was quietly released from prison in the same month, having served only 18 months of her eight-and-a-half-year sentence. After taking into account time spent on remand and on a tag, eyebrows still rose at the early release date.

As for the historic charges against Sarj Miah ending with 2010. At the time he continued to live in Barrow in Furness and continued to groom and abuse children. Employed on a Super Whip ice cream van, Miah’s grooming included giving products from the van to children for free. A hostile response from local people led to vehicles being stoned and the local Barrow newspaper, the North West Evening Mail, running a story blaming the incident on Islamophobia and racism. Likewise, a similar narrative was published when parents complained children were being photographed from a Super Whip van outside a school.

Convicted drug abuser Amy Fenton, also known as Amy Robertson, was a journalist covering those stories. In social media posts, Ms Fenton claimed to be a ‘legal advisor’ to Mohammed Ramzan, the owner of Super Whip and another of the men accused by Ellie Williams, Ramzan featured in the original G-P article which revealed his string of convictions – ignored by the mainstream media – including for harassment and violence against a woman. Treated with astonishing leniency by the press and even by a flawed Tommy Robinson documentary, Ramzan also appears in the new Channel Four documentary where he stares plaintively towards the camera in the publicity shots.

News of Ellie’s release leaked via the Daily Mail on 5th January 2025 in advance of the Channel Four documentary. In a carefully worded accusatory piece, the Mail repeats the allegations against Ellie and quotes local newspaper website comments calling her early release ‘absolutely disgusting!’ However, the DM omits to repeat other reader contributions more supportive of the 24-year-old. Ellie is now said to be ‘happy and doing well’ while focusing on forging a career. Living away from Barrow, she hopes to put her ‘notoriety’ behind her.

We wish all the very best for Ellie and her family.

Subject to strict licence conditions including who she can contact and where she can travel, and under a five-year serious crime prevention order, others must speak on her behalf. Those close to Ellie believe news of her release has been fed to the media to coincide with the Channel Four documentary. A cynic might add, and to link ‘fake’ with ‘grooming’ during Mr Starmer and Miss Phillips’ current difficulties.

The suspicion remains that any national enquiry (which Starmer blocked with a House of Commons three-line whip on Wednesday night) would prove fatally compromising to many, including the Prime Minister, the CPS, county constabularies, the media, and not least to the veracity of the perverting the course of justice conviction against Ellie Williams.
 

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