justice for khyra

Greetings.
I am Ishaq Abu-Zaire, father of Khyra Ishaq and the other five surviving siblings after her death in 2008, as a result of neglect by mother (Angela Gordon), her partner (Junaid Abuhamza) and the failure of the Birmingham Social Services to protect the children.

To anyone that read this blogg i am about to tell my true story in this terrible event starting from the beginning up to present time.

A BIT OF HISTORY

I was born Delroy Francis in November 1970 and brought up by my mother who worked very hard to maintain five children as a single parent.
I was brought up in Birmingham Perry Barr, and went to schools such as Canterbury Cross in Perry Barr and Jaffray secondary school in Erdington.
I have had a happy childhood and to cut a long story short everything was perfect up until age 16 years where i was always in trouble with the authorities.
However, since i left school i have worked for H samual, Green springs civil engeenering, initial/rentokil, Barclays, BHS, i have qulifications in Presition Engeneering and i have done a few eductional stuff at University and collage. I am unemployed at the moment due to being a full time parent.

At the age of 20 in November 1990 i left all the trouble life behind and at this time one embraced Islam and i became a Muslim and change my name from Delroy Francis to Ishaq Abu-Zaire and have been a Muslim ever since.

It was in July 1995 i was married to the mother of the children (Angela Gordon) through an Islamic ceremony but we made a decision not to make it an official marriage under legal registry.
The Islamic marriage was a happy one but of course like all relationships it has its ups and downs however, i would take the children to school every day and pick them up from school playing my role as a father sould.
We would also go on day trips when on holiday from school.
The children had a very happy life and was going to school, allowed to play with friends, eat, visit family and friends and for friends and family to visit them, a normal childhood one would say.
I played a major and consistent role in the life of all the children right up until the very week in which Khyra died which many people are unaware of.

I met the mother now partner (Junaid Abuhamza) in the year 2000 at the place where we prayed and i became sort of a guardian for him as he would often, if not always, presented himself as a meek and week help less type of person. So i took him under my wing and looked after him as this is what one Muslim brother to another should do as commanded in the Qur'an.
When he had no money, i would give him money to support himself.
when he had no food, i would give to him food or money to by food.
when he had no cloth, i would give to him the very cloth of my back.
when he needed a lift, i would drop him where ever he wanted to go.
Why?
Because these are your duty as a Muslim "to like for your brother what you would like for yourself" statement from our messenger, prophet of Islam (PBUH)
Little did i know however, that this person who presents himself as humble, week, meek and in need of help was in fact a little devil, a shataan.

Some time in 2005 Angela said she was no longer married to me because as far as she was concerned she was advised we had gone through the divorce procedure.
She then told me to get out of her house just like that without any warning, and so this came as a surprise to me as it was unusual behavior from her. So as she called the police and the police came and told me not to return otherwise thay have to arrest me.
However, this did not stop me and i continued to go to the house to visit the children and although i had to tread carefully due to what the police said, the mother did allow me enough contact though she made it very frustrating at times.

Three years latter in December 2007 i was not being allowed to see the children at all, i didn't know the reason why but presumed the mother was just did not whant to see me and not me seeing the children.
However, i still continued to go to the house to see the children and even though i did not get access to them, there is no harm in trying.
At this piont i now had two other children with another partner but unfortunately her health deterated and so i had to focas on the emediate concern and that was keeping those two specific children safe.
We had no support from social service even though they was involved due to mothers health, but was left to resolve what was a seriouse development at the time by our selves.
However, with all this still going on i still continued to try and get access to the other children belonging to me and Angela but unfortunatly with no sucsess.

I whent to social services department in the New Towen ariea and had advice them i had concern about the mother ability to care for the children but it would seem that no action was taken.
I therefore thought if the social services was not concered then there is no need for me to be and so left it as that, at that piont.
I continued to try and get access to the children between December 2007 and May 2008 by visiting the school and contacting the mother but still no sucssess.
The one day the mother answered the telephone and i ask if the children was still at school because i wished to see them and i cannot locate them at the school, she reply "yes thay are still at school".
So i whent into the school where the teachers then told me that "khyra and the other children had not been to school for 6 month", and no one contact me?
I then when strait to the mothers house to find out just what was going on but again the door does not open. I was about to leave and go back to the social services untill i saw my eldest child, We sat and talked about his school and he told me everything was ok.
At this stage i thought not to take any further action and took his word for it that everything was ok. Four days latter khyra was dead and the others almost just as dead had it not been for Khyra's sacrifice.
As for my eldest child what must this child been thinking? At the time he must of thought that his father dont even care, Allah (God) knowes what he must be thinking now, poor child.
These children dont understand the adult world and due to the way in which the system currently set, it is a up hill struggel for any father when it comes to his children, especialy if thay dont live with him.

THE PROFFESIONALS
When Khyra died no one contact me from the proffesionals meening the social services, westmidlands police and courts. I found out by a text sent to me by a freind when i was out of the country on a holiday.
By this time the children was in care and both crimminal and care proceedings had started and so i became a party to the care proceeding to be accessed to care for the children and what support the aurtoritiys can offer.

It had taken three years to bring care proceedings to a close from 2008 to 2011, and during the three years amazing things have happend, first:
-The social services tryed to blame/connect me to what had happend to the children, even though thay had knowlage i was not living in the house, nor allowed access to the children.
-What a lot of people dont know is that i had warned the social services about the mother abilty to care for her children, but they thought otherwise.
-Not only have the social services openly admitted neglecting to some degree, the children wilst in there care have been neglected.