Grooming gangs survivor breaks down in tears as she casts doubt on national inquiry: 'I have no faith in it'

Delivering her verdict on the national inquiry, Chantelle stated: "I feel like we'll get so far into it, things will get covered up, they're not going to be truthfully honest with any of it.

"There's no reason for this national inquiry. Put the recommendations in place which we've already spent a lot of money on. I just feel like we're going around the same circle."

Sharing details of her horrific ordeal, Chantelle said she has been fighting her "whole adult life" for justice.

"I was in the care of Manchester Social Services, I was in numerous children's homes, and I was abused from the age of 11, up until I was 15," she said.

"I've been fighting all my adult life for justice. I feel like I'm never going to see justice. I just feel a huge let down."

Asked by Charlie if she believes their experiences are being used as a "political football" rather than a fight for justice, Chantelle broke down in tears as she declared people "must be held accountable" for her abuse.

Chantelle told GB News: "They should be working their best now to make things right and get justice for us. They all knew what was going on, the police, social services, people need to be held accountable.

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"I want to see police officers charged, I want to see social workers charged.

"I've had my childhood ruined. I am now an adult, and I'm still going through the same thing. I'm hurting, it's traumatising. I just want to see the people that abused me locked up.

"You know who they are, you've arrested them, I've picked them out and identified them, they should be in prison. I'm living my life, an everyday struggle, it's an ongoing battle, and they're living their normal lives out there. Why am I suffering and they're not?"

Criticising the work of Greater Manchester Police, Chantelle revealed that after six years of working with them, she has still not received justice.

Chantelle fumed: "I wouldn't recommend anyone the pain, the lies, the trauma, everything. It's not worth doing. If I could go back six years, I would not have started working with them."

Sharing further details of Chantelle's case, campaigner Maggie Oliver added: "Chantelle was a victim on Operation Augusta in 2004 and 2005.

"That case was closed down because the gold command group closed that down. They just decided they wouldn't put resources in, and that's the official finding.

"Chantelle was approached in 2019 by the new investigation, Operation Green Jacket, that they were forced to reopen.

"Six years on, Chantelle is still waiting for her abusers to be charged. Another six years of her life. And she was told last week it's going to be at least another nine months before the CPS see it.

"It might be four years before it gets to trial if it ever does. That's another ten years of her life that she's lost."

Criticising Keir Starmer's call for a national inquiry, Chantelle claimed that survivors such as Jade and herself mean "nothing" to the Prime Minister.

Chantelle stated: "It's like we're nothing to him. We're here, we're trying to make it known, we're trying to raise awareness, we're trying to get justice. What's he doing? Another inquiry. He's not going to put anything in play."

In a statement, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: "The vulnerable young girls who suffered unimaginable abuse at the hands of groups of adult men have now grown into brave women, who are rightly demanding justice for what they went through when they were just children.

"Not enough people listened to them then, that was wrong and unforgivable. We are changing that now."