Hampstead Paedophile Hoax - the ordinary mums accused of drinking baby blood
A group of ordinary mums found their lives turned upside down after finding themselves at the heart of a baseless Satanic cult pedophile conspiracy, spread by cruel trolls.
Speaking out for the first time in new Channel 4 documentary Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax, four mothers have detailed the toll the terrible accusations had on their lives, and the action they took to fight back.
The innocent parents and their families were left fearing for their lives amid abuse and death threats, after their names, contact details, and information about their children, were shared online back in 2014 - in a list of 175 alleged members of a Satanic paedophile cult, said to be located in the leafy North London suburb of Hampstead.
The horrifying ordeal began when two children, aged eight and nine, made shocking accusations about bloody rituals they claimed were happening at their primary school and adjoining church.
The mothers were left fearing for their children's lives (Portrayed by actor) (Rob Parfitt)One of the children alleged: "We do sex with the baby, sacrifice and eat the baby, and drink the blood from it… we dance with the skulls." The two pupils claimed their own father was at the head of the violent ring, which they said was comprised of teachers, parents, and religious leaders, who had babies brought over from other countries to abuse and kill them.
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A police investigation ensued, and it was determined the children's stories had resulted from the 'relentless emotional and psychological pressure as well as significant physical abuse' they suffered at the hands of their mother Ella Draper, and her partner, Abraham Christie.
In January 2015, the situation escalated when Sabine McNeill, an informal legal advisor to Draper, uploaded interviews and videos of the children making the allegations to the internet. She also shared an 11-page document titled Mass Child Sex Abuse In Satanic Ritual Abuse And Sacrifice Cult, in which allegations against 175 people were detailed alongside their personal details.
As this happened during an ongoing custody case with her second husband, officers were sent to Ella's house to obtain an explanation. It was at this point Draper fled to Spain, followed closely by Christie, never to return to the UK. Her children were taken into care.
McNeill continued to harass those on the list, even encouraging others 'to take direct action against the children of these women', Southwark Crown Court heard during her trial. In one of her many disturbing claims, McNeill told people: "They would put [the babies] to sleep by injecting them, slit their throats, cook the babies, and eat them.
"The ritual is performed in an upstairs room in McDonald's on Mondays and Fridays. Sacrifice, blood drinking, and babies' flesh eating occurs on Saturdays. The children are frequently injected and put to sleep, apparently, the school nurse is the one who does the injections."
Although the stories were found to be baseless, the damage had already been done. The allegations were shared millions of times online, snowballing into a full-blown conspiracy, while casting a dark shadow over the lives of many of those on the list.
The four women in the documentary, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had to deal with death threats, and even messages from those threatening to kidnap their children. As the authorities were unable to help them, they worked together to build a legal case against their harassers - finally gaining justice after an intense four-year battle.
In 2019, McNeill, who was branded the 'UK's worst troll' was sentenced to nine years behind bars - the longest jail term for harassment and stalking in UK legal history.
Sentencing a weeping McNeill, Judge Sally Cahill, QC, said: "This case has to be one of the most serious cases of stalking and breach of a restraining order that there can be. The direct consequences of your actions, is that for the four families concerned you have ruined all normal family life.
"Their children have been unable to attend school normally, and are either home-schooled or have to carry tracking devices and alarms."
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Speaking with The Sun ahead of the doc airing, one of the mums, who goes by the pseudonym Sarah*, recalled how the relentless abuse she endured prompted her to carry dumbells in her bag protection. Another mum, referred to by the pseudonym Jenny* in the doc, remembered: "We had death threats, by phone, email, even a drone over the school. People were threatening to burn down our houses. When they started talking about kidnapping or 'rescuing' the 20 specific children – that became alarming."
A High Court judge ruled in April 2015 that the accounts were 'entirely baseless', however, according to Jenny, this only 'fanned the flames'. She continued: "We had vigilantes and lynch mobs threatening to come to town. Apparently, they were going to investigate us, check our privates to see if we had devil tattoos, kill us, set fire to our homes, or rescue our children."
You can catch Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax on Channel 4 this evening (March 11) at 9pm.
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