Rotherham abuse survivor set to sell rapist’s home in £450,000 court win

She started proceedings in 2020 after she felt that the justice system had failed to sufficiently punish him.

But in a thrilling update for survivor and campaigner Liz, the High Court has ruled that she can force the sale of Bostan’s Rotherham home so she can be paid the damages owed.

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The court also revised the cash she is owed to £450,000 due to interest accumulated since March.

Liz, who contributed to the influential GB News documentary Grooming Gangs: Britain’s Shame, told GB News: “I not only want to penalise Bostan big-time for wrecking my life when I was a vulnerable underage girl. I also want to encourage and inspire other grooming gang survivors to take action against their rapists.”

In 2018, Bostan was jailed for 9 years at Sheffield Crown Court for raping Liz in a flat in Rotherham, where she was kept and abused for 10 weeks.

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​Liz was just 14 at the time. In a statement to the court, she said that her childhood and teenage years were “destroyed” by Bostan and that her dreams of a normal adult life were wrecked by the damage he had done to her.

In 2020, the Ministry of Justice apologised after Bostan was moved to an open prison without Liz being informed.

Bostan was eventually released from prison in 2022 having served half of his sentence. Liz told GB News that her abuser and his accomplices had escaped the punishment they were due.

But she now feels that she has taken back control of the case, her life and her sense of justice after the High Court awarded her massive damages and permitted her to sell Bostan’s assets, including his home.

​Liz told GB News: “Bostan stole my innocence, my childhood and my happiness. Now I’m going to sell his house.

“It’s what he deserves and it should come as a warning to all abusers out there, survivors can come after you even if the justice system lets us down.”

Liz was supported by the campaign group Hearts of Oak, with her case backed by a group of funders led by Lords Pearson of Rannoch and Vinson of Roddam Dene.

Her solicitor, Robin Tilbrook, previously told GB News that her case was an “icebreaker” for future survivors to come forward.