Address: 114 Grosvenor Avenue, Islington N5 2NY
Open: 1971 -2002
Number of ISN survivors that lived at Grosvenor Avenue children’s home: 25: 17 men and 8 women
1970s: 7 boys 4 girls
1980s: 10 boys 4 girls
Numbers of children named by ISN survivors as living at Grosvenor Avenue children’s home: 92 : 53 boys and 39 girls
1970s: 34 boys 19 girls
1980s: 19 boys 20 girls
Residential staff named by ISN survivors as working at Gisburne House children’s home: 67: 35 men and 32 women
Life at Grosvenor Avenue children’s home This information will be added soon
Nicholas Rabet was the Deputy Manager of 114 Grosvenor Avenue children’s home and ‘dressed like a cowboy’. He had previously worked at Gisburne House. He owned a children’s activity centre in Sussex called The Stables. He was investigated by Sussex Police in 1992 and they asked for Islington Council’s assistance, but, despite the police’s best efforts, no prosecution followed. He moved to Thailand and was prosecuted there of abuse of 30 boys some as young as 6 years old, and he committed suicide in 2006 before any conviction took place. One residential social worker and whistleblower said that children were taken from Grosvenor Avenue to The Stables. Children from Grosvenor Avenue were also taken by Rabet to Jersey.
Country life of a child abuser; ‘Rabet recruited many young boys to work at his activity centre’ Evening Standard, 07.08.1995
‘Terrifying flashbacks of childhood sexual abuse’
Evening Standard, 02.07.2003
WhiteFlowers Vigil at Grosvenor Avenue 2014
