Grooming gang survivor tells GB News her life has 'turned upside down' as jailed abusers could be released early

Ms Goddard achieved the convictions of seven men for grooming and sex abuse crimes against her and several other children in 2019.

However, the abusers may now be able to benefit from the Labour Government's early release scheme, serving just 33 per cent of their sentence.

Discussing the letter on GB News, Ms Goddard told GB News National Reporter Charlie Peters: "I've already had a lot to try and get my head around, because last year they said there were only going to be serving 50 per cent [of their sentence].

"These people have been done for multiple counts of rape against me between the ages of 15 and 17. So I already had to try and digest that and get my head around that.

"Then, less than 12 months later, I'm getting another letter to say that they're now actually being assessed for release after 33 per cent, which could mean that six of my abusers are out of prison as soon as September."

Ms Goddard admitted that the letter has "triggered a lot of trauma" that she thought she had already managed to process.

Grooming gang survivor Fiona Goddard has told GB News she 'no longer feels safe' after being warned of the possible release of her abusers

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She said: "It triggered off a lot of trauma that I actually thought I'd dealt with, and I haven't. My hair's been falling out this week, I've been struggling to sleep, I feel on edge in my own home.

'I'm having to consider moving because I have children, and I don't feel safe in the same area that they are from and have connections to, and it has turned everything in my life upside down."

Ms Goddard added: "I'm now having this snatched back away from me, and it's me and my family that will face the consequences.

"I've served my time dealing with this issue longer than any of them will have served in prison if they get released early."

Issuing a message to the Labour Government, Ms Goddard urged them to make rapists and child sex offenders "exempt" from "any early release scheme" available to criminals.

She told GB News: "Rapists and child sex offenders should not be benefiting from any scheme.

"They need to rethink it and they need to make rapists and paedophiles exempt from the Sentencing Act 2026. Previous legislation updates did exempt them, so why has this one not?"

Criticising the decision by the Government, Ms Goddard stressed that she and fellow survivors feel that it is simply "furthering the abuse" by allowing them to be released early.

Ms Goddard told GB News that grooming gang survivors feel 'like what happened to them doesn't matter'

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She said: "Grooming gang victims have been made to feel like what happened to us doesn't matter all over again. I had to fight just to get any validation, get any justice, and that's been taken away from me, as well as so many other women and other victims up and down the country that are now having to come to terms with, yet again, feeling worthless and unimportant.

"It's just furthering the abuse. It's reinforcing to these people that this isn't serious and it's it's making a mockery of how serious child rape is."

In a statement, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson told GB News: "This Government inherited a prison system in crisis and we are fixing it – building 14,000 more prison places and reforming sentencing so we can always lock up dangerous criminals.

"Without this decisive action, prisons would’ve run out of space entirely, putting the public at untold risk. Under our changes, prisoners who misbehave can face longer behind bars and those convicted of the most serious crimes will be excluded from earlier release.

"We’re also strengthening supervision in the community – investing £700million into probation, recruiting 1,300 additional probation officers this year, and ensuring every prison leaver is tagged unless there is clear reason not to."