Ashton / Aimee Challenor grew up in a house where his father raped and tortured a 10-year-old girl whilst wearing a frilly dress and a nappy and calling himself Lucy.
From a very young age, Aimee had intimate relationships with at least three much older males, two of whom claim female identities, all of whom are part of the furry/ furbaby/adult baby/nappy-lovers fetish scenes
In August 2018 Aimee's father, David Challenor, was found guilty of torturing and raping a 10-year-old girl in the attic of the family's Coventry home. Images of child abuse, including photographs of Challenor and his victim,
It emerged that Challenor senior committed his crimes while dressed as a little girl, wearing baby-doll dresses and nappies.
David Challenor was Aimee's election agent when Aimee stood as a Green Party candidate for Coventry South in 2017 and during the 2018 local elections.
Aimee appointed him after his arrest for the crimes which now see him serving a 22-year prison sentence.
It’s well known that David Challenor used the alias Baloo (ie the name of the bear in The Jungle Book) and was heavily in
A subsequent investigation found that David Challenor had posed a "major safeguarding risk" when working within the Green Party and that Aimee had committed a “serious error of judgement" in working with him after becoming aware of the charges.
After leaving the Green Party—accusing them of ‘transphobia’ on the way out of the door— Aimee joined the Liberal Democrats where history quickly repeated itself. The Lib-Dems launched an investigation into a whole new safeguarding concern.
The Lib-Dems launched an investigation into a whole new safeguarding concern.
This time, the alarm was sounded over Aimee's American fiancé (now husband), Nathaniel Knight, and his sexual fantasies involving children.
Although his Twitter account is no longer available for public view, the screengrabs remain and the thread has been archived.
But Aimee’s troubling associations don’t end there.
Meet Peter “Katrina” Swales, a trans-identified male, freelance programmer and very close friend of the Knight-Challenors.
Swales is involved in various sexual fetish communities. He’s an “adult baby diaper lover”
He’s an “adult baby diaper lover” (which speaks for itself), a “furry” (someone who is a sexually aroused by role playing anthropomorphic / cartoon animal characters) and a “babyfur” (a branch of furrydom in which participants role-play as infantilised characters.)
The image above is called “Sissy Kitten”. It is one of the pictures posted to a profile with the username “Nekosune”, undoubtedly Swales, on a furry fetish website. It is one of several ‘sissy porn’ animal images on that profile.
This is significant as ‘sissy porn’ is a particular grubby crevasse of porn culture in which males find sexual gratification by being humiliated and degraded in a submissive female persona, very often role-playing as little girls or young teens.
Swales is the moderator of over 80 Reddit communities. Most of them are LGBT sites and many (eg r/lgbt_KidsZone and r/transgenderteens) are aimed at children and/or young teenagers.
Some of the sites moderated by Swales (eg r/hypnocaptions and r/TransBodies) involve nudity and sexually explicit content and several (eg r/pokegirls/) contain paedophilic images.
Evidence suggests that Swales was (and probably still is) in an intimate relationship with Aimee
Evidence suggests that Swales was (and probably still is) in an intimate relationship with Aimee Challenor and Nathaniel Knight. Swales often calls himself Knight online.
The other person mentioned in Swales’ reply is @feefers, aka “Fiona” Brown, another trans-identified male with a furry / babyfur/adult baby nappy fetish who, like Swales, lives in Aberdeen. (Brown also goes by the handles Fionacat and Fiona Lovecraft.)
There seems little doubt that Ashton / Aimee Challenor has been active on sexual fetishist forums since his very early teens.
Notice the dates on the tweets; Ashton / Aimee Challenor was only 14-years-old when he posted these tweets.
In 2014 it looks like Aimee changed from Mucky Meerkat and became Troublepup Lovecraft, now demanding she / her pronouns.
And here is “Fiona” Brown (aka Feefers), describing Challenor as the “naughtiest cub” he ever met. This was in May 2015 when Aimee “Troublepup” was only sixteen. So how long was this relationship going on?
This collection of screenshots demonstrates that Aimee Challenor had a furry persona on Twitter. And that he clearly spent time with in Aberdeen with Brown and Swales, one of whom he describes as his “Mommy”, in 2016.
Whilst we might recognise that Aimee Challenor is a tragic victim in this mess, we must remember the positions of power & influence he held and how quickly and easily he reached them
He was the Green Party’s LGBTQI and Equalities officer, stood for parliament & local elections
He campaigned vociferously for the Green Party to adopt the policy of self-identification, crushing any dissenting voices.
In 2017 Aimee and his father took out a private court injunction against another member of the Green Party, Andy Healey, to prevent him from speaking
Healey, to prevent him from speaking at the Green Party conference against the policy of self-ID.
Aimee then tried to bring a criminal prosecution against Healey for 'hate speech' (mainly 'misgendering' ie correctly referring to Aimee as male) which the police eventually rejected
Aimee attacked the police and the CPS for failing to act & was even given an opportunity to complain to a parliamentary committee
Healey is still waiting for his suspension from the Greens to be lifted/ received no apology from those who called him a bigot for raising concerns
Not only did Challenor hold tremendous sway in a major political party, he often appeared in the press,was given a regular media platform. Furthermore, even after the revelations about his father & husband-to-be, Challenor was on the Stonewall trans advisory board until as late
Challenor was on the Stonewall trans advisory board until as late as July 2019. He was advising the charity which provides training for schools, public bodies and innumerable businesses.
While women like Helen Watts were losing their positions for raising concerns about Stonewall’s advice, this young and deeply troubled boy, ushered into positions of power and influence with his paedophile father close at heel and his furry, diapered, much-older boyfriends
troubled boy, ushered into positions of power & influence with his paedophile father close at heel, his furry, diapered, much-older boyfriends lurking in the background, fought ferociously for rights of males to identify however they want/smash basic safeguarding principles
Starting at the age of 1, “ghetto children” must be separated from their families for at least 25 hours a week, not including nap time, for mandatory instruction in “Danish values,”
Noncompliance could result in a stoppage of welfare payments. Other Danish citizens are free to choose whether to enroll children in preschool up to the age of six.
Some are punitive: One measure under consideration would allow courts to double the punishment for certain crimes if they are committed in one of the 25 neighborhoods classified as ghettos, based on residents’ income, employment status, education levels, number of criminal convic
"The review lacks credibility, its current reviewer, William Shawcross, is seen as partisan, & the govn has no intention of taking our concerns seriously. In short, this government cannot be trusted to make a truly independent & comprehensive assessment of Prevent."
with PreventWatch, Aitlhadj has documented more than 500 cases involving Prevent which she says have caused concern about the "harm to Muslim children, families and wider Muslim society."
"Without a truly unconstrained process, the voices of those most impacted by Prevent will not be considered seriously and given the public hearing they deserve. The coalition will support all steps to set up a robust people's commission."
PREVENT policy was conceived for Muslims. At its inception, around the time of UK’s illegal, invasion of Iraq, PREVENT’s purpose was to
prevent British Muslims from ‘breaking bad’ & radicalising. This decision was made before any major domestic attack took place on British soil
In the wake of Christchurch, British news media have seen government officials triumph PREVENT, a nation-wide policy which hopes to identify and ‘intervene on’ pre-criminals before they develop violent intent.
These officials do so without the least bit of irony – but all the gall – considering the government finally acquiesced to an independent review of PREVENT given widespread disapproval of the policy.
Now it’s worth mentioning that Prevent is one of the most prominent counter-terror strategies from the Home Office.
So the question is this: if Prevent has had over £35m in funding every single year since 2015 (to say nothing of pre-2015), thecanary.co/investigation/…
So the question is this: if Prevent has had over £35m in funding every single year since 2015 (to say nothing of pre-2015), why is that money producing “nothing of real weight to counter extremism”?
Where is that money going?
When we reached out to the Home Office for comment, a spokesperson told us:
Journalist and commentator Mehdi Hasan recently went on MSNBC to argue that, for white mass shooters, the question is “always, was he mentally ill, deranged, loner,” while a Muslim shooter is always “a terrorist fueled by ideology."
To truly measure & understand variations in media coverage of terrorism, we need two things: a clear set of cases to study and a clear set of media sources to consider. As researchers, we rely on incident-level terrorism datasets that are systemic and unbiased –
are systemic and unbiased – such as the Global Terrorism Database – to identify which attacks to study. We then consider all media coverage of those incidents from a specific news outlet or set of news outlets.
The media plays a crucial role in highlighting the important facts the public should know by selecting, broadcasting, and emphasizing what events the public should classify and comprehend as important and what the public should assess as a threat
This paper explores the notion that the media reinforces a false synonym between Muslims and terrorism.
I begin with a description of news framing bias and how this bias impacts the portrayal of terrorism and Muslims through politically and emotionally charged discourse
Then, through a content analysis of local and national news articles, I examine selected terrorist events in France and Turkey, analyzing the U.S media’s portrayal of these events to uncover what elements journalists select, emphasize,