June 27th 2026 - Fiona Goddard posted on X:
". . . with my abusers now being assessed for early release from prison, and Bradford being announced as one of the key locations in the grooming gang inquiry, the abuse, threats and danger have escalated at an alarming rate.
My family and I have already had to endure years of incidents, upheaval and loss as a consequence of getting my abusers convicted and fighting for accountability and the truth about what happened in the grooming gang scandal.
Just last year, there was an arson attempt on our home. After moving to another city, we suffered a break-in where I woke up to the sound of my kettle boiling and found my back door wide open, with concerns that the boiling water was intended to be poured over me.
We have also experienced multiple attempted break-ins. During one incident, I had to hide my children in a cupboard while I physically held a man back from entering our home until armed police arrived. That man was later found to have phone calls to family members of my abusers on his phone.
One of the men who had already been released from prison was, just last week, convicted for his part in a machete attack in which a young lad had his leg chopped off. Police had already informed me that my abusers had links to unsolved murders and gun crime.
They have also attempted to recruit girls to go to the housing office pretending to be me in an effort to gain access to my address.
I have faced constant death threats and abuse, much of it so vile that I cannot even repeat it here.
My family and I have had to move seven times in the last 14 years. Three of those times, we had to live for months in run-down, rat-infested homeless shelters. The other four times, my children lost everything they owned and we had to start again from scratch. This has caused enormous additional trauma for my children, and now even they live in a constant state of anxiety.
I have six children at home, and I now find myself sleeping on the sofa every night, staying on guard to make sure no one comes to harm them. We cannot carry on living like this. Our mental health has suffered massively, and we have taken every possible step to try and get these issues addressed.
There have been multiple reports made to the police by both myself and dozens of others. Despite this, nothing has been done beyond providing me with a security camera to place outside and a metal plate to stop petrol from being poured through our letterbox.
We have now come to the heartbreaking realisation that we have to move if we are ever going to have a chance of living a safe and peaceful life, where my children can grow up happy and carefree, as they deserve, instead of living in constant fear. I want this move to be different. I don't want it to become another traumatic chapter in our lives. I want it to be the start of something positive."
Please don't just read that extract - see full post here:
https://x.com/fionagoddarduk/status/2070932905170227318