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In this gripping episode, we delve into the harrowing story of Keira, a young woman from Beeston, Nottingham, who bravely shares her experience of grooming and abuse at the hands of a local shopkeeper, Harry Shankar. Keira recounts the manipulation and threats she faced, which led to a prolonged period of suffering and injustice. Despite reporting the crimes, the legal system failed to deliver adequate justice, leaving her abuser with a mere suspended sentence.
We explore the broader context of grooming scandals in the UK, emphasizing that such crimes are not limited to any single community. The episode highlights the systemic failures that allow predators to escape with minimal consequences and the impact this has on victims like Keira.
Our host, driven by a personal connection to the community and a desire to seek justice, takes us through the investigative process, including the use of private detectives to gather evidence against Shankar. The episode culminates in a dramatic confrontation, aiming to hold the perpetrator accountable and provide Keira with a sense of justice.
This episode serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of community vigilance and support for victims of abuse, urging listeners to take action and support efforts to bring justice to those who have been wronged.
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Unknown:
I think it was like a light bulb moment in my friend's head and she she was like something worse has happened, hasn't it? And I just cried. And then from that moment my friends know that it was worse. I came I became numb. I just I just tried to detach myself from reality whenever I was with them. I just try and zone out completely ruined me to be honest. In what way? I didn't bath myself. I didn't eat. My friends had to bath me and clothe me, feed me. This is my justice. This is your justice.
[00:00:39] Guramit Singh:
When I do come face to face with him is there anything you want me to say to him?
[00:00:45] Unknown:
I've won.
[00:01:18] Guramit Singh:
Welcome to Nottingham, home of the famous city ground, Robin Hood, and also then Robbing Bastards at Nottingham City Council, where recently declared bankruptcy and are spending 100 of 1,000 of pounds of your money on private healthcare for illegal refugees and hotels. Now Nottingham is known for its fair share of tragedies from child abuse in care homes to killings on the streets, but this tragedy did not take place in Nottingham city centre. It took place in Beeston, my hometown. So let's go for a little walk. I'm from Nottingham, Beeston. I grew up in the shadow of Woolerton Hall, and it's on these streets this story of tragedy and injustice occurred.
In recent years, we have seen the Pakistani Islamic grooming scandal that's been happening throughout our country and the turmoil and the harm that it has caused to the young girls of this country. But that does not mean that all groomers are just Pakistani Muslim men. Even though it is them that are responsible for 84% of the crimes in this country, there's still a 16% we need to be wary about. And this is what Keira's Justice, the documentary, will be about. In my hometown, Beast of Nottingham, she was let down by a community leader who owned a local shop. He abused her. He plied her with alcohol and drugs and had his deviant sexual ways with her. It ruined her life at the time, and it does do till this day. Her and her family approached me after she received no justice, as Harry Shanker, the man that did molest her when she was 16 years old and he was 54, only received 2 years suspended sentence on a 100 hours community service.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Keira's Justice, and I introduce to you Keira. Keira, thank you for coming here today. I know it takes a lot of courage, especially for what you've been through, but we wanna get to the beginning of this, how it all started. So can you give me a little bit of background information on yourself? Who are you? Where you're from? What your background was like, etcetera, growing up? My name is Kara.
[00:03:35] Unknown:
I'm born and bred from Beeston. I used to go to Chilwell School, and now I'm a painter and decorator. Was it a happy childhood growing up? Yeah.
[00:03:46] Guramit Singh:
There was obviously some bumps, but Go on. Tell me about the bumps.
[00:03:50] Unknown:
Just my sister was a bit of a nightmare, let's say. Yeah. My dad was in and out of my life due to, like, girlfriends. Right. Got you. Was he married to your mother or Yeah. They got divorced when I was about 2. Yeah. So he wasn't really at home from what I can remember.
[00:04:09] Guramit Singh:
Yeah. Got you. What was your school life like?
[00:04:12] Unknown:
School was good. The my for the friends I had in school, we're still friends now. Yeah. It was good. I'd I'd like to go back to school just for a week, but Yeah. I feel like that sometimes. I'm a bit nostalgic
[00:04:27] Guramit Singh:
about school, you know, when I see some of these videos on Facebook, like what it was like in the nineties when I grew up. Well, I think you were born in the 2000s, weren't you? I'm an old fart compared to you. But, yeah, I feel a bit nostalgic like that sometimes. So obviously, you came to me, you and your partner approached me, obviously, because you saw my work out there and stuff and the things I've done in the past and probably saw me on stage with Tommy Robinson or something like that. Yeah. And then you guys approached me because you did have a story to tell. You felt that there was a huge injustice with yourself and it was a case of you being groomed, you know, I'm I'm finding it hard to say these words, you know what I mean? Because it is such a disgusting issue that keeps happening day to day in our own communities under our noses and and your story a 100% you didn't get the justice you deserve. Now how can we start from the beginning? Like, what actually happened when it came to your situation, when it came to your childhood grooming with the assailant? Start from the beginning, how did it happen? Where did you first come in contact with your assailant, mister Harry Shunkar?
[00:05:31] Unknown:
So I first came in contact with him. We finished school, and my mom went away. Yeah. And Where did your mom go? On a holiday or something? Yeah. She went to go down to my sister's because she was living in London. Right. Okay. Yeah. So she went down there, and obviously I had the free I have free hours and so my mates So this is when you were 16? Yeah. So it all started from that. I went to the shop to go buy some rims and filters with £1.20 that I found on the side of the sofa. And he didn't take the money off me. Right. So then, okay, sound, I've still got my £1.20.
Yeah. Went back a couple of days later because I'd run out again. Yeah. That same £1.20, he still didn't take it off me. And then he I went back again, and he didn't have something in or something like that. Yeah. And, he said to me, oh, take my number and then message me what you need from the shop and I'll get it ready for you, tell him if we don't have it, save you just coming down. Yeah. I was like, yeah, yeah, that saves me walking all the way to the shops. Yeah. I gave him my number and then he was just constantly cold. Yeah. Text.
[00:06:47] Guramit Singh:
It it find it's found out, like, who my family was. Did you feel he was, like, some way, like, stalking you in a certain manner? I didn't really think like that at the time. You know, now looking back, do you see it like that? Yeah. Now looking back. And just so the audience knows at this sort of time when you left school you were how old? 16. Yeah. Okay. 16.
[00:07:08] Unknown:
So I had my number and he'd messaged me constantly ringing me.
[00:07:15] Guramit Singh:
And he said, oh, I've just just like got some new weed, will you try it for me before I sell it? He told you? Yeah. Okay. You know at the time of this as well, how old is Harry Chunko when these sort of crimes when he did commit these crimes against you? 55. 55. Okay. Okay. 55.
[00:07:31] Unknown:
So he offered you some drugs? Yeah. He said try this weed and, let me know what it's like because I might might sell it. It's like okay, tried it, told them, and then it just kept getting more and more weed. Yeah. And then it must have had the drink involved because I used to go out drinking into town and stuff as well.
[00:07:54] Guramit Singh:
Yeah. So I'd get drink, obviously I smoked fags, so we'd give fags. He would give you all that for free? Yeah. All the time? And he was 16. Yeah.
[00:08:02] Unknown:
He'd be like, oh my shop is your shop, this is your shop. Yeah. You have it.
[00:08:07] Guramit Singh:
Yeah. So when, he started giving you all this free alcohol, free drugs, I mean obviously as a child you didn't think there was anything more sadistic to it. So what actually did happen to yourself with Harry Shankar, that was actually the start of this whole court case?
[00:08:26] Unknown:
Well, it's he used to constantly message me, ring me on no caller ID. I'd have about 300 missed calls off him. I'd have messages after messages. If you don't come to the shop, I'm coming outside your house. You figured out where all my friends lived. I actually walked outside to go for a fight once and he was stood at my front door. Yeah. So definitely threatening you and stalking you. Yeah. 100%. Figured out where all my friends live. You know I'm not 18. You know I'm 16. I have put away. But you know I'm 16. I have all evidence. Listen,
[00:09:04] Unknown:
who your mom is coming. She shit. Shut her. You talk to mom?
[00:09:13] Unknown:
Shut up. Go away. Why have you been saying that you're gonna kill me?
[00:09:24] Unknown:
Right now, how many people here? How many people? Aries, Robin, then other one? Me. Then the 4 one? No. Okay. So, Jesse.
[00:09:37] Unknown:
Why do you wanna know?
[00:09:38] Unknown:
Listen.
[00:09:40] Unknown:
Young lady, listen to me. It got to the point where my friends were like, this isn't this isn't right. Yeah. Like, they sat me down and said, right, we need to like do something about it, take it further. I said, no, just leave it. There's no point. And then I think it was like a light bulb moment in my friend's head, and she she was like, something worse has happened, hasn't it? And I just cried. And then from that moment, my friends know that it was worse.
[00:10:12] Guramit Singh:
Are you okay talking about the worst thing that happened? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So when you said that your friends actually approached you and they kind of suspected that something worse had happened, if you're comfortable with it, can you tell us what what the worst thing that was that happened? Well, he he used to lock me in the shop. Yeah.
[00:10:30] Unknown:
And he'd make me toss him off, and then he'd finger me and if I tried to leave he'd just pin me back. He'd sit me on this chair in the back of the shop, and I'd just have to, like, stay there until
[00:10:46] Guramit Singh:
And this is at he was satisfied. This is at his shop in Beeston in Nottingham where we're from. He'd locked me in his car as well because
[00:10:52] Unknown:
he'd message me and message me and he'd be outside my house and we'd have to go to the car or wherever I was. He would turn up and I'd have to go and meet him in the car. So
[00:11:03] Guramit Singh:
so first he threatened we'd come around to your house, you know, he was messaging you. Threatening my friends. Threatening your friends, and then he made you basically go to his shop. Yeah. You know, because you were in fear of what they what he would do to yourself or your friends. Yeah. And then he would sexually take advantage of you. Yeah. Okay. He threatened me with my family as well because he knew
[00:11:22] Unknown:
obviously knew I didn't really have a dad in my life. Yeah. He he knew that my mom wasn't really really working. So we were struggling a bit. He made a Facebook and added all of my tried to add all of my family on it, tried to add all my friends.
[00:11:38] Guramit Singh:
So he used to call you, he used to force you to come around to shop, pull up in his car and make you get into the car and it was the same sort of things that happened in the car as well as what happened in the in the shop. Yeah. He tried rape. Somebody walked into the shop Really? And I ran. Right. Okay. So you don't never never got that far. Never got that far, but still everything's still bad enough. Yeah. You know what I mean? Do need to ask a question. What sort of effect did this have on your life?
[00:12:06] Unknown:
Completely ruined me to be honest. In what way? I didn't bath myself. I didn't eat. My friends had to bath me and clothe me, feed me. I just turned
[00:12:19] Guramit Singh:
to drugs and drink. What sort of drugs?
[00:12:23] Unknown:
Anything to be honest. I was smoking a lot a lot of weed. I take, MDMA. I'd take ecstasy pills. I just I just get mangled to try and block out all the pain. Yeah.
[00:12:37] Guramit Singh:
What effect did it have on, like, your family life? I mean, is it something that you told your mother about immediately? Did she know about this or No. I never told her. You kept it hidden. Why was the reason? I kinda know why, but why was the reason why you didn't tell your mother? I
[00:12:51] Unknown:
was ashamed and yeah, and I knew it would hurt her yeah And I didn't even I didn't want my family to know and get them involved I I somehow magically thought that I'd be able to resolve it all by myself thought that I'd be able to resolve it all by myself. I told my sister and then she rang my other sister, told her they she came down and then they told my mom. But I I couldn't I could not be in the same room as they told my mom. Right.
[00:13:24] Guramit Singh:
Got you. So once your sister told your mother, was it your mother that called the police? My mom and my sister, yeah. Okay. So take me through what happened then next few days when your mother called the police. What actually happened there?
[00:13:38] Unknown:
I wasn't really trying to stay at home, to be honest. I was just out all the time constantly trying to just get fucked. Yeah. But once we told the police, he then he then started one of my friends was working at a hairdresser's, And, he had one of his friends stood outside the shop waiting for her. And this she had lost 2 jobs because
[00:14:07] Guramit Singh:
of this, because we went to the police. So even after you called the police, you were still trying to intimidate yourself and your friends by Yeah. Pointing people outside the shop. Yeah. So it was in 2018, the police got involved via your mother calling them, they took the statements, etcetera. He was still trying to threaten you afterwards trying to, you know, intimidate you to basically take the charges away. So there wouldn't be a court date. So how far along was a court date?
[00:14:30] Unknown:
I didn't hear about a court date for ages because you went into COVID. So COVID,
[00:14:37] Guramit Singh:
the made up cold, that basically stopped you from getting any justice as well. It took a longer period. I mean, it happened to a lot of people. So what year did you actually start to attend court? I only went to court last year. So we're on so that's 20 for to for 5 years later? Yeah. It's ridiculous. So, yeah, so it took you 5 years even to get that bit of justice anyway. It was so hard for you. So when you went to court, so what what did, Harry Shankar's charges come to?
[00:15:00] Unknown:
He was originally meant to be charged with 2 sexual assaults Yeah. And 2 sexual penetrations.
[00:15:07] Guramit Singh:
Yeah.
[00:15:08] Unknown:
I spent a full day getting cross examined by his barrister. Yeah. And then the next day when it came for him to give his evidence, he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of paying for sexual acts, from a 16 year old.
[00:15:26] Guramit Singh:
And that that's what he ended up doing. So what what he basically did is he made his solicitor, made a deal with crown prosecution to accept a lesser charge, go guilty, get it over and done with, so to receive a lesser sentence really at the end of the day. So instead of throwing the book at the pedophile, instead they give them a little bit of an easy route out. Yeah. I mean, you know, what are your thoughts on everything that happened with that court date? With what what what what he got charged for? The system's fucked. Yeah. A drug dealer will get put away longer. And and just people ask for drugs. And just to clarify, to let the audience know, so after all these crimes that Harry Shunka committed against yourself, what did he actually get? Nothing. What did what what what was his sentence for? 2 year suspended sentence. 2 year suspended sentence. And I think there was a small order for unpaid work as well community service, wasn't there? I think so. 100 hours community service, was it? Yeah. 100 hours. So 2 years suspended sentence. So he basically gets to go home and enjoy his normal life that he had while your life is ruined. Like, I know it was COVID Yeah.
[00:16:23] Unknown:
But I felt out of the loop. I felt like I was on a boat in the middle of the lake, and I'm just bobbing up and down, and I'm slowly just sinking, and nothing was happening.
[00:16:34] Guramit Singh:
So now you've got to me and finally, you know, we're at this stage. I know it took a few months, but we're at this stage and we recorded. And, I do have intelligence on him. I do have information on him. I've had private detectives outside his houses, his shops. Now part of it the judge actually stated to him in court that you are not allowed to work by yourself, in a shop, in any area, unsupervised, especially when there's georging around. We've got evidence of him actually doing that. I'm a former,
[00:17:02] Unknown:
police officer. I spent time, within my policing career as a reactive Bobby, and spent a lot of time in, surveillance and COVID policing. And a lot of that was around, child sex grooming. So there were several, quite big child sex grooming cases, around the UK. Such as? So, Rotherham, Rochdale, and,
[00:17:30] Guramit Singh:
Peterborough. Can you talk us through the investigation, what basically happened, on what date? Well, not not precisely down to the t, but, you know, your investigation, what you did on behalf of myself and and the scoop. Yeah. So we were we were tasked with, obviously,
[00:17:43] Unknown:
looking into mister mister Shankar, specifically around his activity at his shop. Whilst we were observing the shop, what we did notice was the amount of children in and around the area. So there was a young girl, wasn't there, on the bike just cycling up and down outside now. She must have been about 12 to 13 years old. A prime target for somebody who's done this kind of thing before. And we're saying to each other on that day, they have no idea there's a sexual predator
[00:18:12] Guramit Singh:
Yeah. Of the doorstep. In
[00:18:14] Unknown:
the shot.
[00:18:15] Guramit Singh:
Obviously, the most vulnerable people in my eyes of society are the women and children, maybe the elderly, and you can cast them as well. And yourself being a female private detective, what's your first thoughts of mister Shanker? You know, supposed to be a a trusted member of society who has a shop in a highly pedestrianized area where there's a lot of children and women. What are your thoughts on him?
[00:18:35] Unknown:
When I first, approached him, when I went inside the shop, obviously, I placed myself as just a customer. When I first saw him, my first impression of him was the only word I can think of is creepy, and that's because of the interaction that we we had. He was sort of communicating with me in a manner that I didn't feel was relevant. He was sharing things with me that I didn't even ask for.
[00:19:01] Guramit Singh:
Like what?
[00:19:02] Unknown:
So one of the things he did share with me was I asked him, just generally, what time do you open the shop? And he kind of sort of laughed and looked at me and said, well, whenever whenever my customers want me to, I'll open the shop for them. And I said, oh, you know, that's a bit unusual. And he said, oh, that's because I've got a room upstairs as well, and I sleep upstairs. And we know that he doesn't sleep elsewhere. Yeah. We know that. Yeah. It was just that it was just his persona, just the way he came across. It just made me feel very uncomfortable. And I know the history behind it as well of of why we were there in the first place when I then realized that, actually, he is on his own. So you had actually entered that shop at times, and he had been by himself? Yes. He was definitely by himself. And one of the things that the judge instructed in the court case was he is not allowed to work,
[00:19:48] Guramit Singh:
by himself in any predicament of it where there could be children and stuff. And obviously, you saw, you witnessed, and you have evidence of children being in the area and stuff. So he's basically he's broken that condition and that's one of the reasons we're gonna be going after it a little bit to prevent this from happening to children in the future. This is my justice. This is your justice. 100%. When I do come face to face with him, is there anything you want me to say to him?
[00:20:11] Unknown:
I won.
[00:20:35] Guramit Singh:
So today is the day of the sting. So today, we have a private outside, not actually his business because he sold his business, but we found out another business that he's working at that belongs to a family member. So we've got private, investigators outside the store right now. He hasn't quite turned up yet. His son's there, but he's not there. So we're just on the way there right now, and we're gonna wait for him. Once he does arrive, I won't go I am going to be confronting mister Shankar, and I'll be showing him the evidence that we have that he did disobey his court order to not be in a store by himself. He's supposed to be under supervision all at all times when serving the public. Well, we've got him numerous times he wasn't. And, also, we've got evidence that he hasn't told the police that he's actually working in a new establishment. So we've got that as well. So once we've done that, the private investigators are gonna be ringing 999. Once confrontation is over and done with, I've got a little message to pass to him from Kira, and, hopefully, the police will arrest him and implement a suspended sentence.
So today is the day of judgment for mister Shankar, and, hopefully, Kira will get a little bit of justice and this disgusting individual gets locked up. Right. So we're currently parked up outside mister Harry Shankar's house. We have private detectives outside of his son's shop. As we as I told as I've said before, he's currently not at a shop no more. He sold it, we think, due to financial reasons. So we've left a private detective at the shop. He's got eyes on his son's motor vehicle, but he hasn't got eyes on his motor vehicle. We're currently at his house, but we can't see his motor vehicle either. So a bit of time has now passed. If he would have gone straight to the shop, then we would have got a phone call from our private investigator, but we haven't had that yet. So we're currently just gonna hold up here and just see how it goes. It's just gonna actually, the private investigator's ringing me now. Hello? He's here. He's here. We're on our way. Okay. See you in a minute.
Let's go. Right. So, basically, private investigators just called us. He just turned up in the shop. So our suspicion is correct. He has left it while we've been waiting, and he's gone to the straight to the shop. So we're gonna make our way there right now.
[00:22:36] Unknown:
I came I became numb and, like, detached my body to my brain, if that makes sense. It does make sense. Yeah. Carry on. I just I just tried to detach myself from reality whenever I was with them. I just try and zone out or just do whatever I could to
[00:22:57] Guramit Singh:
not really think about it too much. And what are your thoughts on feelings towards him now, even Ashkel? Absolutely fucking hate him. I can imagine as we are. Yeah. I'm with you on that. Okay. So literally, we're just arriving back at his son's business after receiving a phone call from the private detective. He's actually inside the store. There are some other bodies there. We think there may be people working for him. We know his son is there. So dealing with 4 individuals, but what we're gonna be doing is meeting up with private investigator now. He's gonna ring 999 so we've so they're ready there on the way. We'll hand in the evidence that we have against him, that he's breached his court orders, and we're gonna go in. We're gonna confront him about everything that's happened with Kira. And finally, he's gonna get a bit he's gonna be ashamed. He's gonna finally be on this receiving end of this right now.
And, yeah, let's see how it goes. I'm a bit nervous. It's the 1st time I've done this. I know it's a righteous thing, so let's get it done in and out. We're literally pulling up right now. We're walking into the store right now. The private investigator just calling 999. We're gonna need them to attend because we don't want a breach of the peace, And, obviously, we've got this evidence of him breaking this court order. So if that's enough to get him, Nick, to get him, Nick, get thrown in prison for breaching his suspended sentence. So let's go.
Hello, miss Darius Chunka. How are you? I'm Gauravits Singh. I'm here representing Keira. Obviously, in 2018, you committed heinous crimes against Keira down in Beeston. You molested her. You threatened her. And recently, we've had private investigators following you around for a few weeks because we had intelligence that you may be committing these same crimes again when you were down in that shop in Norfolk. Now luckily for you, we don't find anything there, but we have found out that you have been been working in stores by yourself, and you have a court order stating that you are not allowed to be around children or anything alone, especially in a place of business. We've got evidence from our private investigators in your store that you were running on Norfolk Road in Longyear, that you've been there by yourself. Okay? Speak Hindi. No. No. I can't speak Hindi. You can understand English because we've had people speak in English to you numerous times. No. You've been here long enough. You you you you you you know Yes. People are not You know you know precisely what you're talking about. Recording. You you know what you're talking. You don't need an interpreter. You know what we're saying. We've got evidence that you have been working in stores in the public by yourself when you have a court order stating that you're not supposed to. The police are on the way. You've you've breached your suspended sentence. You're going to jail, mate. Do you actually think it was correct in 2018 to be putting your fingers in little girls' vaginas? Do you think that was right? Do you think it was okay for children to be holding your penis in 2018? Do you think that's right? You had a suspended sentence. The court told you you're not allowed to be in the public without having supervision, especially in a place of business. Have you told the police state? Have you told the police that you're now working here at night at Long Eaton? Because we know we actually know that you haven't either. We've got all the evidence of it. We've had private investigators outside your house, your business for weeks weeks on end. Kieran got no justice. Look at me. You can look me in the eye. You're not blind. You're not blind. You're no there's no reason to talk to at all. You can speak English.
I'll talk to you, son. Yeah. Give me the phone. Give me the phone. Is is there anybody in there? There's no one in here. Again again, you're working at a place of business by yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Oh, so so you do understand me. I understand what you're saying. I can understand your language as well. I I can understand your language as well. You're going to jail today, mate. You're going to jail. You got your jail bag ready. You got your jail bag ready. Do you know what they do to people like you in prison? Do you know what they do to people like you in prison on the BP wing? Do you get it? 2 2 years suspended sentence. Do you think Kiera got any justice? You think she got any justice? Do you think it's okay to put your fingers in little children's vaginas? You think that's okay? And and then when the court when the court hold on one second. When the when the court gave you an order and the court stated that you're not allowed to work behind in businesses, in shops, and with children by yourself, and you broke that order over and over and over again. You know what you say. You know what you say. You know precisely what you say. You know precisely what you say. You know precisely what you're saying. Oh oh oh, so now you wanna lie. Right? He understands us, but he understands us precisely. I understand his language. He is actually trying to lie lie to his son to make out that he doesn't understand his language. Now we don't wanna keep him hey. Where you going now? Where you going now? Hey, mister Shankar. Is this what you did?
What? Hey. Where you going now? Where you going now? Where is it, Bob? So we wait that end. I'll come around this end. Do you think it was okay to threaten Keira outside of family's houses? No, man. You think it was okay to send a message saying you're gonna rape and kill them? Do you think it's okay to threaten her friends and everything, do you? All you think your name? How do you feel? How do you what what do you think? You ruined that girl's life. It's done. You ruined that young girl's life. You ruined her life. The police are on the way. Everybody's gonna go to jail. You you wait here. Nobody's grabbing you. No one's grabbing you. You're free to go anywhere you want. The police are on the way. You're going to jail, mate. You've breached your suspended sentence. You're going to prison. You're going to prison. Hotel's not bothered. Your son's not bothered. Your family's not bothered. You're going to prison. You know what they do to people. Right? You're the VP. This is my son. You understand you? Yeah. Let him come. You're both here, but I Your father has breached your your father has breached your suspended sentence. He's working in business by himself in the public when he's not allowed to after raping and molesting a girl in 2018. Now, you know all about it. Don't worry. I'm gonna keep No. It's my son. Yeah. Don't worry. It's you. I'm talking to you. You're the person that raped children, not your son. You're the person that raped Ken. You're the person that molested Kiera, not not your son. You're the person that put your fingers in her vagina, not your son. You're the person that made us soot your penis when she was 16 years old, not your son. He we've got evidence. We've had private investigators outside his shop in Longyear, and he's worked behind a till by himself. He's got a court order stating he's not allowed to be working in a place of business by himself, especially when there's children back. We've got the evidence. Private investigators across the road, 999 have called. They're on the way. You're going to jail. You're going to prison, mate. You breached a suspended sentence. It's time to go to prison.
Exactly. You you know what I'm saying? You understand precisely what I'm saying? You're not working here. Right? You're not working here. What he's basically doing, I understand Punjabi. I understand Hindi. Everything that he's saying, he understands everything I'm saying, but he's lying. You know what I mean? What? What's he doing here? Yeah. He's covering here. It doesn't matter. He's still working here. We've got evidence, weeks weeks on evidence from a private investigator, the shop in Long Eaton. He's been working behind that store over and over again at Norfolk Road. Okay? He's been working there over and over again. The shop. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. He's caught he he he went to court last year. He got a 2 year suspended sentence last year in court for molesting children in 2018. Do you know about this? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know about it. Talk about this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So so you know about this. He's not allowed to be behind a a shop counter by himself unsupervised.
He is not allowed to be there. We've got evidence that he was. Our private investigator's room 999. They're on the way. He's going to prison. You've molested children. You've raped children. You've ruined girls' lives. You're supposed to be a trusted member of the community. You've never been no seat. You know what I mean? It's disgusting. Your actions have caused so much damage and harm Done. To a young girl in my hometown in Beeston, and I'm gonna let you fucking get away with it. You understand me? You ain't getting away with it. You're going to jail today. Where are these people, cop? Where are these police officers? Now is your time. You're going to prison. Listen, I've got a message for you. I've got a message for you from Keira. She's won. She's won. I've got a message from you from Keira. You're gonna tell me what he's gonna tell me. She's won. She's won. I've got a message from you. She's won. To tell you. Should do all your health. Your health. Your health. Your health. Don't bullshit your fucking health right now. Well, I will keep a distance. Basically, we've got everything we won. But this man, he has committed crimes against children. He has been putting his fingers in children's vaginas. He's been making children suck his penis. In 2018, he had a court order. He's not allowed to be working in a place of business by himself. We have evidence. And now the police are on the way, and he's gonna go to prison. He's going to jail. He's even working in the store by himself. There's children out here. It's holidays. There's kids walking around, this, that, and the other. He should not be here by himself. He's not allowed to be here by himself. He's breached a suspended sentence. It's time to go to jail. And you know you know what? I'm going to respect you because this is your this is your place of business. This is your property. So if you want me to wait outside, I've got everything I need. I've got everything I want. I'm gonna wait here for the police to come and then the police can arrest him for beating his court order. You've asked us to leave. We've left peacefully. We've not caused no harm, no damage. We haven't been threatening or anything at all.
We have not treated him in the worst ways that he treated these children back in 2018. Well, Kira, so now we wait for the police and let them go to prison. Police here, they're doing the job finally. Blues and twos. Obviously, it's a pedophile. They've got protected minutes, so they've got here rapid. That's the evidence you need. You can take my details. Any other evidence you need, I can give to you. We've also got a private investigator that's just around the corner. He's ex police as well, so he can give you everything as well. His court order states he's not allowed to work in a shop by himself unsupervised in the community.
Go. Kiera, are you there?
[00:31:01] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm here.
[00:31:03] Guramit Singh:
I got him. I absolutely nailed him to the absolute cross. Went running in there with my team. The private investigator was at the shop, and then we went to the house, and then he give me a call. He was at the shop. We went straight back. I went straight running in with the team. He broke his court condition again, so we've actually got the footage of him in the shop by himself. The minute we walked in, the private investigator run the police. I went in the shop, went running about him, and I passed I went running around him, all around the shop, absolutely nailed him to the cross. It couldn't have worked out better. And I sent him your message. I told him you've won, and he was just starstruck. He was absolutely he was at he looked like a deer in headlights. It was perfect. The police came. They asked us to leave. I handed over the evidence, and then from the now, obviously, the police will deal with him. The police will contact me, because I wanna get a hold of the private investigators, and now I've got the private investigators permission to pass his details on. But, yeah, I got him, sweetheart. I did it for you. I got him. I got him.
Thank you. Are you happy? Yeah. I'm glad I picked. I'm not I grew up in Nottingham, Beeston, in the shadow, Wills and all. There's a lot of reasons why I wanted to get involved in this documentary, and the main one, obviously, is a girl from my hometown. I grew up around men like big JT, John Tansley, Andrew Dunn. They were kinda like the making of me in a way. I miss them every single day of the week. As you've seen today, I still lay flowers at JT's grave every week. It's because of them sort of lads that I've got this sort of fire in me that wants to help, wants to do something positive for me. I've been suffering my own kind of grief for the last few years.
I lost big JT, I lost Donnie, my best friend's granddad Roy and his uncles and his uncle Chris, recently I lost a good mate called Ant, you know, it all it all bears hard on my soul so I wanted to do something that would make these men proud of me especially Big JT and Dunny, and I can't forget also a couple years back I lost my father, so it's like the men that were a part of my life in bringing me up they're no longer here now, but there was always been something in me since I left jail that wanted to just make them happy, make them proud.
When Keira came to me it was a case that we've seen over and over again throughout this whole country of a girl that's been abused by someone trusted in the community, been let down by a failed government, a failed constabulary, I mean, come on now, the girl was 16 years old, she was molested, you know, attempted to rape on her, she was pillaged with drugs and alcohol by a 54 year old shopkeeper called Harry Shankar from Beeston. When a family approached me, I was in two minds whether to do it whether to do it at all. But then I thought to myself what big JT used to tell me. He says, you're from Nottingham. You're from Beeston. You need to take care of your people and your area.
So I thought maybe this is actually something that I needed, and Keira's actually helped me a lot more than what she actually knows. She's given me me being involved in this whole process has given me a little bit of that spark that I lost when I went to prison. I've got my mojo back a little bit, and it was down to them them men that I just mentioned why I'm in this position to even help Keira in the first place. So I wanna thank Keira for that. And like I said, these crimes happen in all our communities, and us men, even if it's not we should be shields for the and us men, even if it's not we should be shields for the daughters and the women of of our community because we're let down so much by a government and the constabulary, which obviously does not care about us in any single way. I mean, they're more bothered about illegal refugees in hotels than they are about our own daughters, so us men within our own communities, we have to be a shield to other people's daughters and women as well apart from just our own, and we do need to take that responsibility seriously.
I hope by the end of this film, it's educated some people, and more than anything, I hope it's given Keira the justice that she deserves. If anybody is affected by any of the issues or concerns raised in Kira's justice documentary, please do not hesitate to contact me on the email address below. I can't promise the world, but I will promise that me and my team will do our utmost to help you in any way possible. Where justice hasn't been served, we'll try and get you that back. Please can I urge you to show your support for our work now and into the future by visiting urban scoop.newsforward/supporthyphen us?
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[00:36:44] Unknown:
you.
I think it was like a light bulb moment in my friend's head and she she was like something worse has happened, hasn't it? And I just cried. And then from that moment my friends know that it was worse. I came I became numb. I just I just tried to detach myself from reality whenever I was with them. I just try and zone out completely ruined me to be honest. In what way? I didn't bath myself. I didn't eat. My friends had to bath me and clothe me, feed me. This is my justice. This is your justice.
[00:00:39] Guramit Singh:
When I do come face to face with him is there anything you want me to say to him?
[00:00:45] Unknown:
I've won.
[00:01:18] Guramit Singh:
Welcome to Nottingham, home of the famous city ground, Robin Hood, and also then Robbing Bastards at Nottingham City Council, where recently declared bankruptcy and are spending 100 of 1,000 of pounds of your money on private healthcare for illegal refugees and hotels. Now Nottingham is known for its fair share of tragedies from child abuse in care homes to killings on the streets, but this tragedy did not take place in Nottingham city centre. It took place in Beeston, my hometown. So let's go for a little walk. I'm from Nottingham, Beeston. I grew up in the shadow of Woolerton Hall, and it's on these streets this story of tragedy and injustice occurred.
In recent years, we have seen the Pakistani Islamic grooming scandal that's been happening throughout our country and the turmoil and the harm that it has caused to the young girls of this country. But that does not mean that all groomers are just Pakistani Muslim men. Even though it is them that are responsible for 84% of the crimes in this country, there's still a 16% we need to be wary about. And this is what Keira's Justice, the documentary, will be about. In my hometown, Beast of Nottingham, she was let down by a community leader who owned a local shop. He abused her. He plied her with alcohol and drugs and had his deviant sexual ways with her. It ruined her life at the time, and it does do till this day. Her and her family approached me after she received no justice, as Harry Shanker, the man that did molest her when she was 16 years old and he was 54, only received 2 years suspended sentence on a 100 hours community service.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Keira's Justice, and I introduce to you Keira. Keira, thank you for coming here today. I know it takes a lot of courage, especially for what you've been through, but we wanna get to the beginning of this, how it all started. So can you give me a little bit of background information on yourself? Who are you? Where you're from? What your background was like, etcetera, growing up? My name is Kara.
[00:03:35] Unknown:
I'm born and bred from Beeston. I used to go to Chilwell School, and now I'm a painter and decorator. Was it a happy childhood growing up? Yeah.
[00:03:46] Guramit Singh:
There was obviously some bumps, but Go on. Tell me about the bumps.
[00:03:50] Unknown:
Just my sister was a bit of a nightmare, let's say. Yeah. My dad was in and out of my life due to, like, girlfriends. Right. Got you. Was he married to your mother or Yeah. They got divorced when I was about 2. Yeah. So he wasn't really at home from what I can remember.
[00:04:09] Guramit Singh:
Yeah. Got you. What was your school life like?
[00:04:12] Unknown:
School was good. The my for the friends I had in school, we're still friends now. Yeah. It was good. I'd I'd like to go back to school just for a week, but Yeah. I feel like that sometimes. I'm a bit nostalgic
[00:04:27] Guramit Singh:
about school, you know, when I see some of these videos on Facebook, like what it was like in the nineties when I grew up. Well, I think you were born in the 2000s, weren't you? I'm an old fart compared to you. But, yeah, I feel a bit nostalgic like that sometimes. So obviously, you came to me, you and your partner approached me, obviously, because you saw my work out there and stuff and the things I've done in the past and probably saw me on stage with Tommy Robinson or something like that. Yeah. And then you guys approached me because you did have a story to tell. You felt that there was a huge injustice with yourself and it was a case of you being groomed, you know, I'm I'm finding it hard to say these words, you know what I mean? Because it is such a disgusting issue that keeps happening day to day in our own communities under our noses and and your story a 100% you didn't get the justice you deserve. Now how can we start from the beginning? Like, what actually happened when it came to your situation, when it came to your childhood grooming with the assailant? Start from the beginning, how did it happen? Where did you first come in contact with your assailant, mister Harry Shunkar?
[00:05:31] Unknown:
So I first came in contact with him. We finished school, and my mom went away. Yeah. And Where did your mom go? On a holiday or something? Yeah. She went to go down to my sister's because she was living in London. Right. Okay. Yeah. So she went down there, and obviously I had the free I have free hours and so my mates So this is when you were 16? Yeah. So it all started from that. I went to the shop to go buy some rims and filters with £1.20 that I found on the side of the sofa. And he didn't take the money off me. Right. So then, okay, sound, I've still got my £1.20.
Yeah. Went back a couple of days later because I'd run out again. Yeah. That same £1.20, he still didn't take it off me. And then he I went back again, and he didn't have something in or something like that. Yeah. And, he said to me, oh, take my number and then message me what you need from the shop and I'll get it ready for you, tell him if we don't have it, save you just coming down. Yeah. I was like, yeah, yeah, that saves me walking all the way to the shops. Yeah. I gave him my number and then he was just constantly cold. Yeah. Text.
[00:06:47] Guramit Singh:
It it find it's found out, like, who my family was. Did you feel he was, like, some way, like, stalking you in a certain manner? I didn't really think like that at the time. You know, now looking back, do you see it like that? Yeah. Now looking back. And just so the audience knows at this sort of time when you left school you were how old? 16. Yeah. Okay. 16.
[00:07:08] Unknown:
So I had my number and he'd messaged me constantly ringing me.
[00:07:15] Guramit Singh:
And he said, oh, I've just just like got some new weed, will you try it for me before I sell it? He told you? Yeah. Okay. You know at the time of this as well, how old is Harry Chunko when these sort of crimes when he did commit these crimes against you? 55. 55. Okay. Okay. 55.
[00:07:31] Unknown:
So he offered you some drugs? Yeah. He said try this weed and, let me know what it's like because I might might sell it. It's like okay, tried it, told them, and then it just kept getting more and more weed. Yeah. And then it must have had the drink involved because I used to go out drinking into town and stuff as well.
[00:07:54] Guramit Singh:
Yeah. So I'd get drink, obviously I smoked fags, so we'd give fags. He would give you all that for free? Yeah. All the time? And he was 16. Yeah.
[00:08:02] Unknown:
He'd be like, oh my shop is your shop, this is your shop. Yeah. You have it.
[00:08:07] Guramit Singh:
Yeah. So when, he started giving you all this free alcohol, free drugs, I mean obviously as a child you didn't think there was anything more sadistic to it. So what actually did happen to yourself with Harry Shankar, that was actually the start of this whole court case?
[00:08:26] Unknown:
Well, it's he used to constantly message me, ring me on no caller ID. I'd have about 300 missed calls off him. I'd have messages after messages. If you don't come to the shop, I'm coming outside your house. You figured out where all my friends lived. I actually walked outside to go for a fight once and he was stood at my front door. Yeah. So definitely threatening you and stalking you. Yeah. 100%. Figured out where all my friends live. You know I'm not 18. You know I'm 16. I have put away. But you know I'm 16. I have all evidence. Listen,
[00:09:04] Unknown:
who your mom is coming. She shit. Shut her. You talk to mom?
[00:09:13] Unknown:
Shut up. Go away. Why have you been saying that you're gonna kill me?
[00:09:24] Unknown:
Right now, how many people here? How many people? Aries, Robin, then other one? Me. Then the 4 one? No. Okay. So, Jesse.
[00:09:37] Unknown:
Why do you wanna know?
[00:09:38] Unknown:
Listen.
[00:09:40] Unknown:
Young lady, listen to me. It got to the point where my friends were like, this isn't this isn't right. Yeah. Like, they sat me down and said, right, we need to like do something about it, take it further. I said, no, just leave it. There's no point. And then I think it was like a light bulb moment in my friend's head, and she she was like, something worse has happened, hasn't it? And I just cried. And then from that moment, my friends know that it was worse.
[00:10:12] Guramit Singh:
Are you okay talking about the worst thing that happened? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So when you said that your friends actually approached you and they kind of suspected that something worse had happened, if you're comfortable with it, can you tell us what what the worst thing that was that happened? Well, he he used to lock me in the shop. Yeah.
[00:10:30] Unknown:
And he'd make me toss him off, and then he'd finger me and if I tried to leave he'd just pin me back. He'd sit me on this chair in the back of the shop, and I'd just have to, like, stay there until
[00:10:46] Guramit Singh:
And this is at he was satisfied. This is at his shop in Beeston in Nottingham where we're from. He'd locked me in his car as well because
[00:10:52] Unknown:
he'd message me and message me and he'd be outside my house and we'd have to go to the car or wherever I was. He would turn up and I'd have to go and meet him in the car. So
[00:11:03] Guramit Singh:
so first he threatened we'd come around to your house, you know, he was messaging you. Threatening my friends. Threatening your friends, and then he made you basically go to his shop. Yeah. You know, because you were in fear of what they what he would do to yourself or your friends. Yeah. And then he would sexually take advantage of you. Yeah. Okay. He threatened me with my family as well because he knew
[00:11:22] Unknown:
obviously knew I didn't really have a dad in my life. Yeah. He he knew that my mom wasn't really really working. So we were struggling a bit. He made a Facebook and added all of my tried to add all of my family on it, tried to add all my friends.
[00:11:38] Guramit Singh:
So he used to call you, he used to force you to come around to shop, pull up in his car and make you get into the car and it was the same sort of things that happened in the car as well as what happened in the in the shop. Yeah. He tried rape. Somebody walked into the shop Really? And I ran. Right. Okay. So you don't never never got that far. Never got that far, but still everything's still bad enough. Yeah. You know what I mean? Do need to ask a question. What sort of effect did this have on your life?
[00:12:06] Unknown:
Completely ruined me to be honest. In what way? I didn't bath myself. I didn't eat. My friends had to bath me and clothe me, feed me. I just turned
[00:12:19] Guramit Singh:
to drugs and drink. What sort of drugs?
[00:12:23] Unknown:
Anything to be honest. I was smoking a lot a lot of weed. I take, MDMA. I'd take ecstasy pills. I just I just get mangled to try and block out all the pain. Yeah.
[00:12:37] Guramit Singh:
What effect did it have on, like, your family life? I mean, is it something that you told your mother about immediately? Did she know about this or No. I never told her. You kept it hidden. Why was the reason? I kinda know why, but why was the reason why you didn't tell your mother? I
[00:12:51] Unknown:
was ashamed and yeah, and I knew it would hurt her yeah And I didn't even I didn't want my family to know and get them involved I I somehow magically thought that I'd be able to resolve it all by myself thought that I'd be able to resolve it all by myself. I told my sister and then she rang my other sister, told her they she came down and then they told my mom. But I I couldn't I could not be in the same room as they told my mom. Right.
[00:13:24] Guramit Singh:
Got you. So once your sister told your mother, was it your mother that called the police? My mom and my sister, yeah. Okay. So take me through what happened then next few days when your mother called the police. What actually happened there?
[00:13:38] Unknown:
I wasn't really trying to stay at home, to be honest. I was just out all the time constantly trying to just get fucked. Yeah. But once we told the police, he then he then started one of my friends was working at a hairdresser's, And, he had one of his friends stood outside the shop waiting for her. And this she had lost 2 jobs because
[00:14:07] Guramit Singh:
of this, because we went to the police. So even after you called the police, you were still trying to intimidate yourself and your friends by Yeah. Pointing people outside the shop. Yeah. So it was in 2018, the police got involved via your mother calling them, they took the statements, etcetera. He was still trying to threaten you afterwards trying to, you know, intimidate you to basically take the charges away. So there wouldn't be a court date. So how far along was a court date?
[00:14:30] Unknown:
I didn't hear about a court date for ages because you went into COVID. So COVID,
[00:14:37] Guramit Singh:
the made up cold, that basically stopped you from getting any justice as well. It took a longer period. I mean, it happened to a lot of people. So what year did you actually start to attend court? I only went to court last year. So we're on so that's 20 for to for 5 years later? Yeah. It's ridiculous. So, yeah, so it took you 5 years even to get that bit of justice anyway. It was so hard for you. So when you went to court, so what what did, Harry Shankar's charges come to?
[00:15:00] Unknown:
He was originally meant to be charged with 2 sexual assaults Yeah. And 2 sexual penetrations.
[00:15:07] Guramit Singh:
Yeah.
[00:15:08] Unknown:
I spent a full day getting cross examined by his barrister. Yeah. And then the next day when it came for him to give his evidence, he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of paying for sexual acts, from a 16 year old.
[00:15:26] Guramit Singh:
And that that's what he ended up doing. So what what he basically did is he made his solicitor, made a deal with crown prosecution to accept a lesser charge, go guilty, get it over and done with, so to receive a lesser sentence really at the end of the day. So instead of throwing the book at the pedophile, instead they give them a little bit of an easy route out. Yeah. I mean, you know, what are your thoughts on everything that happened with that court date? With what what what what he got charged for? The system's fucked. Yeah. A drug dealer will get put away longer. And and just people ask for drugs. And just to clarify, to let the audience know, so after all these crimes that Harry Shunka committed against yourself, what did he actually get? Nothing. What did what what what was his sentence for? 2 year suspended sentence. 2 year suspended sentence. And I think there was a small order for unpaid work as well community service, wasn't there? I think so. 100 hours community service, was it? Yeah. 100 hours. So 2 years suspended sentence. So he basically gets to go home and enjoy his normal life that he had while your life is ruined. Like, I know it was COVID Yeah.
[00:16:23] Unknown:
But I felt out of the loop. I felt like I was on a boat in the middle of the lake, and I'm just bobbing up and down, and I'm slowly just sinking, and nothing was happening.
[00:16:34] Guramit Singh:
So now you've got to me and finally, you know, we're at this stage. I know it took a few months, but we're at this stage and we recorded. And, I do have intelligence on him. I do have information on him. I've had private detectives outside his houses, his shops. Now part of it the judge actually stated to him in court that you are not allowed to work by yourself, in a shop, in any area, unsupervised, especially when there's georging around. We've got evidence of him actually doing that. I'm a former,
[00:17:02] Unknown:
police officer. I spent time, within my policing career as a reactive Bobby, and spent a lot of time in, surveillance and COVID policing. And a lot of that was around, child sex grooming. So there were several, quite big child sex grooming cases, around the UK. Such as? So, Rotherham, Rochdale, and,
[00:17:30] Guramit Singh:
Peterborough. Can you talk us through the investigation, what basically happened, on what date? Well, not not precisely down to the t, but, you know, your investigation, what you did on behalf of myself and and the scoop. Yeah. So we were we were tasked with, obviously,
[00:17:43] Unknown:
looking into mister mister Shankar, specifically around his activity at his shop. Whilst we were observing the shop, what we did notice was the amount of children in and around the area. So there was a young girl, wasn't there, on the bike just cycling up and down outside now. She must have been about 12 to 13 years old. A prime target for somebody who's done this kind of thing before. And we're saying to each other on that day, they have no idea there's a sexual predator
[00:18:12] Guramit Singh:
Yeah. Of the doorstep. In
[00:18:14] Unknown:
the shot.
[00:18:15] Guramit Singh:
Obviously, the most vulnerable people in my eyes of society are the women and children, maybe the elderly, and you can cast them as well. And yourself being a female private detective, what's your first thoughts of mister Shanker? You know, supposed to be a a trusted member of society who has a shop in a highly pedestrianized area where there's a lot of children and women. What are your thoughts on him?
[00:18:35] Unknown:
When I first, approached him, when I went inside the shop, obviously, I placed myself as just a customer. When I first saw him, my first impression of him was the only word I can think of is creepy, and that's because of the interaction that we we had. He was sort of communicating with me in a manner that I didn't feel was relevant. He was sharing things with me that I didn't even ask for.
[00:19:01] Guramit Singh:
Like what?
[00:19:02] Unknown:
So one of the things he did share with me was I asked him, just generally, what time do you open the shop? And he kind of sort of laughed and looked at me and said, well, whenever whenever my customers want me to, I'll open the shop for them. And I said, oh, you know, that's a bit unusual. And he said, oh, that's because I've got a room upstairs as well, and I sleep upstairs. And we know that he doesn't sleep elsewhere. Yeah. We know that. Yeah. It was just that it was just his persona, just the way he came across. It just made me feel very uncomfortable. And I know the history behind it as well of of why we were there in the first place when I then realized that, actually, he is on his own. So you had actually entered that shop at times, and he had been by himself? Yes. He was definitely by himself. And one of the things that the judge instructed in the court case was he is not allowed to work,
[00:19:48] Guramit Singh:
by himself in any predicament of it where there could be children and stuff. And obviously, you saw, you witnessed, and you have evidence of children being in the area and stuff. So he's basically he's broken that condition and that's one of the reasons we're gonna be going after it a little bit to prevent this from happening to children in the future. This is my justice. This is your justice. 100%. When I do come face to face with him, is there anything you want me to say to him?
[00:20:11] Unknown:
I won.
[00:20:35] Guramit Singh:
So today is the day of the sting. So today, we have a private outside, not actually his business because he sold his business, but we found out another business that he's working at that belongs to a family member. So we've got private, investigators outside the store right now. He hasn't quite turned up yet. His son's there, but he's not there. So we're just on the way there right now, and we're gonna wait for him. Once he does arrive, I won't go I am going to be confronting mister Shankar, and I'll be showing him the evidence that we have that he did disobey his court order to not be in a store by himself. He's supposed to be under supervision all at all times when serving the public. Well, we've got him numerous times he wasn't. And, also, we've got evidence that he hasn't told the police that he's actually working in a new establishment. So we've got that as well. So once we've done that, the private investigators are gonna be ringing 999. Once confrontation is over and done with, I've got a little message to pass to him from Kira, and, hopefully, the police will arrest him and implement a suspended sentence.
So today is the day of judgment for mister Shankar, and, hopefully, Kira will get a little bit of justice and this disgusting individual gets locked up. Right. So we're currently parked up outside mister Harry Shankar's house. We have private detectives outside of his son's shop. As we as I told as I've said before, he's currently not at a shop no more. He sold it, we think, due to financial reasons. So we've left a private detective at the shop. He's got eyes on his son's motor vehicle, but he hasn't got eyes on his motor vehicle. We're currently at his house, but we can't see his motor vehicle either. So a bit of time has now passed. If he would have gone straight to the shop, then we would have got a phone call from our private investigator, but we haven't had that yet. So we're currently just gonna hold up here and just see how it goes. It's just gonna actually, the private investigator's ringing me now. Hello? He's here. He's here. We're on our way. Okay. See you in a minute.
Let's go. Right. So, basically, private investigators just called us. He just turned up in the shop. So our suspicion is correct. He has left it while we've been waiting, and he's gone to the straight to the shop. So we're gonna make our way there right now.
[00:22:36] Unknown:
I came I became numb and, like, detached my body to my brain, if that makes sense. It does make sense. Yeah. Carry on. I just I just tried to detach myself from reality whenever I was with them. I just try and zone out or just do whatever I could to
[00:22:57] Guramit Singh:
not really think about it too much. And what are your thoughts on feelings towards him now, even Ashkel? Absolutely fucking hate him. I can imagine as we are. Yeah. I'm with you on that. Okay. So literally, we're just arriving back at his son's business after receiving a phone call from the private detective. He's actually inside the store. There are some other bodies there. We think there may be people working for him. We know his son is there. So dealing with 4 individuals, but what we're gonna be doing is meeting up with private investigator now. He's gonna ring 999 so we've so they're ready there on the way. We'll hand in the evidence that we have against him, that he's breached his court orders, and we're gonna go in. We're gonna confront him about everything that's happened with Kira. And finally, he's gonna get a bit he's gonna be ashamed. He's gonna finally be on this receiving end of this right now.
And, yeah, let's see how it goes. I'm a bit nervous. It's the 1st time I've done this. I know it's a righteous thing, so let's get it done in and out. We're literally pulling up right now. We're walking into the store right now. The private investigator just calling 999. We're gonna need them to attend because we don't want a breach of the peace, And, obviously, we've got this evidence of him breaking this court order. So if that's enough to get him, Nick, to get him, Nick, get thrown in prison for breaching his suspended sentence. So let's go.
Hello, miss Darius Chunka. How are you? I'm Gauravits Singh. I'm here representing Keira. Obviously, in 2018, you committed heinous crimes against Keira down in Beeston. You molested her. You threatened her. And recently, we've had private investigators following you around for a few weeks because we had intelligence that you may be committing these same crimes again when you were down in that shop in Norfolk. Now luckily for you, we don't find anything there, but we have found out that you have been been working in stores by yourself, and you have a court order stating that you are not allowed to be around children or anything alone, especially in a place of business. We've got evidence from our private investigators in your store that you were running on Norfolk Road in Longyear, that you've been there by yourself. Okay? Speak Hindi. No. No. I can't speak Hindi. You can understand English because we've had people speak in English to you numerous times. No. You've been here long enough. You you you you you you know Yes. People are not You know you know precisely what you're talking about. Recording. You you know what you're talking. You don't need an interpreter. You know what we're saying. We've got evidence that you have been working in stores in the public by yourself when you have a court order stating that you're not supposed to. The police are on the way. You've you've breached your suspended sentence. You're going to jail, mate. Do you actually think it was correct in 2018 to be putting your fingers in little girls' vaginas? Do you think that was right? Do you think it was okay for children to be holding your penis in 2018? Do you think that's right? You had a suspended sentence. The court told you you're not allowed to be in the public without having supervision, especially in a place of business. Have you told the police state? Have you told the police that you're now working here at night at Long Eaton? Because we know we actually know that you haven't either. We've got all the evidence of it. We've had private investigators outside your house, your business for weeks weeks on end. Kieran got no justice. Look at me. You can look me in the eye. You're not blind. You're not blind. You're no there's no reason to talk to at all. You can speak English.
I'll talk to you, son. Yeah. Give me the phone. Give me the phone. Is is there anybody in there? There's no one in here. Again again, you're working at a place of business by yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Oh, so so you do understand me. I understand what you're saying. I can understand your language as well. I I can understand your language as well. You're going to jail today, mate. You're going to jail. You got your jail bag ready. You got your jail bag ready. Do you know what they do to people like you in prison? Do you know what they do to people like you in prison on the BP wing? Do you get it? 2 2 years suspended sentence. Do you think Kiera got any justice? You think she got any justice? Do you think it's okay to put your fingers in little children's vaginas? You think that's okay? And and then when the court when the court hold on one second. When the when the court gave you an order and the court stated that you're not allowed to work behind in businesses, in shops, and with children by yourself, and you broke that order over and over and over again. You know what you say. You know what you say. You know precisely what you say. You know precisely what you say. You know precisely what you're saying. Oh oh oh, so now you wanna lie. Right? He understands us, but he understands us precisely. I understand his language. He is actually trying to lie lie to his son to make out that he doesn't understand his language. Now we don't wanna keep him hey. Where you going now? Where you going now? Hey, mister Shankar. Is this what you did?
What? Hey. Where you going now? Where you going now? Where is it, Bob? So we wait that end. I'll come around this end. Do you think it was okay to threaten Keira outside of family's houses? No, man. You think it was okay to send a message saying you're gonna rape and kill them? Do you think it's okay to threaten her friends and everything, do you? All you think your name? How do you feel? How do you what what do you think? You ruined that girl's life. It's done. You ruined that young girl's life. You ruined her life. The police are on the way. Everybody's gonna go to jail. You you wait here. Nobody's grabbing you. No one's grabbing you. You're free to go anywhere you want. The police are on the way. You're going to jail, mate. You've breached your suspended sentence. You're going to prison. You're going to prison. Hotel's not bothered. Your son's not bothered. Your family's not bothered. You're going to prison. You know what they do to people. Right? You're the VP. This is my son. You understand you? Yeah. Let him come. You're both here, but I Your father has breached your your father has breached your suspended sentence. He's working in business by himself in the public when he's not allowed to after raping and molesting a girl in 2018. Now, you know all about it. Don't worry. I'm gonna keep No. It's my son. Yeah. Don't worry. It's you. I'm talking to you. You're the person that raped children, not your son. You're the person that raped Ken. You're the person that molested Kiera, not not your son. You're the person that put your fingers in her vagina, not your son. You're the person that made us soot your penis when she was 16 years old, not your son. He we've got evidence. We've had private investigators outside his shop in Longyear, and he's worked behind a till by himself. He's got a court order stating he's not allowed to be working in a place of business by himself, especially when there's children back. We've got the evidence. Private investigators across the road, 999 have called. They're on the way. You're going to jail. You're going to prison, mate. You breached a suspended sentence. It's time to go to prison.
Exactly. You you know what I'm saying? You understand precisely what I'm saying? You're not working here. Right? You're not working here. What he's basically doing, I understand Punjabi. I understand Hindi. Everything that he's saying, he understands everything I'm saying, but he's lying. You know what I mean? What? What's he doing here? Yeah. He's covering here. It doesn't matter. He's still working here. We've got evidence, weeks weeks on evidence from a private investigator, the shop in Long Eaton. He's been working behind that store over and over again at Norfolk Road. Okay? He's been working there over and over again. The shop. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. He's caught he he he went to court last year. He got a 2 year suspended sentence last year in court for molesting children in 2018. Do you know about this? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know about it. Talk about this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So so you know about this. He's not allowed to be behind a a shop counter by himself unsupervised.
He is not allowed to be there. We've got evidence that he was. Our private investigator's room 999. They're on the way. He's going to prison. You've molested children. You've raped children. You've ruined girls' lives. You're supposed to be a trusted member of the community. You've never been no seat. You know what I mean? It's disgusting. Your actions have caused so much damage and harm Done. To a young girl in my hometown in Beeston, and I'm gonna let you fucking get away with it. You understand me? You ain't getting away with it. You're going to jail today. Where are these people, cop? Where are these police officers? Now is your time. You're going to prison. Listen, I've got a message for you. I've got a message for you from Keira. She's won. She's won. I've got a message from you from Keira. You're gonna tell me what he's gonna tell me. She's won. She's won. I've got a message from you. She's won. To tell you. Should do all your health. Your health. Your health. Your health. Don't bullshit your fucking health right now. Well, I will keep a distance. Basically, we've got everything we won. But this man, he has committed crimes against children. He has been putting his fingers in children's vaginas. He's been making children suck his penis. In 2018, he had a court order. He's not allowed to be working in a place of business by himself. We have evidence. And now the police are on the way, and he's gonna go to prison. He's going to jail. He's even working in the store by himself. There's children out here. It's holidays. There's kids walking around, this, that, and the other. He should not be here by himself. He's not allowed to be here by himself. He's breached a suspended sentence. It's time to go to jail. And you know you know what? I'm going to respect you because this is your this is your place of business. This is your property. So if you want me to wait outside, I've got everything I need. I've got everything I want. I'm gonna wait here for the police to come and then the police can arrest him for beating his court order. You've asked us to leave. We've left peacefully. We've not caused no harm, no damage. We haven't been threatening or anything at all.
We have not treated him in the worst ways that he treated these children back in 2018. Well, Kira, so now we wait for the police and let them go to prison. Police here, they're doing the job finally. Blues and twos. Obviously, it's a pedophile. They've got protected minutes, so they've got here rapid. That's the evidence you need. You can take my details. Any other evidence you need, I can give to you. We've also got a private investigator that's just around the corner. He's ex police as well, so he can give you everything as well. His court order states he's not allowed to work in a shop by himself unsupervised in the community.
Go. Kiera, are you there?
[00:31:01] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm here.
[00:31:03] Guramit Singh:
I got him. I absolutely nailed him to the absolute cross. Went running in there with my team. The private investigator was at the shop, and then we went to the house, and then he give me a call. He was at the shop. We went straight back. I went straight running in with the team. He broke his court condition again, so we've actually got the footage of him in the shop by himself. The minute we walked in, the private investigator run the police. I went in the shop, went running about him, and I passed I went running around him, all around the shop, absolutely nailed him to the cross. It couldn't have worked out better. And I sent him your message. I told him you've won, and he was just starstruck. He was absolutely he was at he looked like a deer in headlights. It was perfect. The police came. They asked us to leave. I handed over the evidence, and then from the now, obviously, the police will deal with him. The police will contact me, because I wanna get a hold of the private investigators, and now I've got the private investigators permission to pass his details on. But, yeah, I got him, sweetheart. I did it for you. I got him. I got him.
Thank you. Are you happy? Yeah. I'm glad I picked. I'm not I grew up in Nottingham, Beeston, in the shadow, Wills and all. There's a lot of reasons why I wanted to get involved in this documentary, and the main one, obviously, is a girl from my hometown. I grew up around men like big JT, John Tansley, Andrew Dunn. They were kinda like the making of me in a way. I miss them every single day of the week. As you've seen today, I still lay flowers at JT's grave every week. It's because of them sort of lads that I've got this sort of fire in me that wants to help, wants to do something positive for me. I've been suffering my own kind of grief for the last few years.
I lost big JT, I lost Donnie, my best friend's granddad Roy and his uncles and his uncle Chris, recently I lost a good mate called Ant, you know, it all it all bears hard on my soul so I wanted to do something that would make these men proud of me especially Big JT and Dunny, and I can't forget also a couple years back I lost my father, so it's like the men that were a part of my life in bringing me up they're no longer here now, but there was always been something in me since I left jail that wanted to just make them happy, make them proud.
When Keira came to me it was a case that we've seen over and over again throughout this whole country of a girl that's been abused by someone trusted in the community, been let down by a failed government, a failed constabulary, I mean, come on now, the girl was 16 years old, she was molested, you know, attempted to rape on her, she was pillaged with drugs and alcohol by a 54 year old shopkeeper called Harry Shankar from Beeston. When a family approached me, I was in two minds whether to do it whether to do it at all. But then I thought to myself what big JT used to tell me. He says, you're from Nottingham. You're from Beeston. You need to take care of your people and your area.
So I thought maybe this is actually something that I needed, and Keira's actually helped me a lot more than what she actually knows. She's given me me being involved in this whole process has given me a little bit of that spark that I lost when I went to prison. I've got my mojo back a little bit, and it was down to them them men that I just mentioned why I'm in this position to even help Keira in the first place. So I wanna thank Keira for that. And like I said, these crimes happen in all our communities, and us men, even if it's not we should be shields for the and us men, even if it's not we should be shields for the daughters and the women of of our community because we're let down so much by a government and the constabulary, which obviously does not care about us in any single way. I mean, they're more bothered about illegal refugees in hotels than they are about our own daughters, so us men within our own communities, we have to be a shield to other people's daughters and women as well apart from just our own, and we do need to take that responsibility seriously.
I hope by the end of this film, it's educated some people, and more than anything, I hope it's given Keira the justice that she deserves. If anybody is affected by any of the issues or concerns raised in Kira's justice documentary, please do not hesitate to contact me on the email address below. I can't promise the world, but I will promise that me and my team will do our utmost to help you in any way possible. Where justice hasn't been served, we'll try and get you that back. Please can I urge you to show your support for our work now and into the future by visiting urban scoop.newsforward/supporthyphen us?
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[00:36:44] Unknown:
you.
The Light Bulb Moment
Welcome to Nottingham
Keira's Story Begins
The Encounter with Harry Shankar
The Worst Moments Revealed
The Long Wait for Justice
Private Investigation Insights
The Sting Operation
Confrontation and Arrest
Reflections and Motivations
