Nigel Farage warns rape gang scandal ‘getting worse’ after GB News blows lid on fresh Rotherham case

He believes the records may have been falsified in order to cover up two separate arrests when he was trying to rescue his daughter from a grooming gang den in Rotherham.

South Yorkshire Police has confirmed it has launched an investigation into the case.

After the allegations came to light, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told the People’s Channel: “It’s almost like it’s getting worse”.

“However bad we thought the grooming gang scandal was, it just got worse.

“This new evidence shows that Rotherham must be part of the national inquiry.”

Farage added on X that “South Yorkshire Police have failed yet again in their duty to protect children”.

Jack, not his real name, who is the father of Elizabeth, also a pseudonym, who was abused by a gang of rapists in a Rotherham flat for 10 weeks in 2005.

She was lured to the house by another woman before being exploited, raped and abused by several men in the building, across Rotherham, and also elsewhere in the country after being trafficked.

Jack knew his daughter was being exploited and desperately sought police support.

He told GB News he made hundreds of reports to South Yorkshire Police about her being missing.

Instead of the force sufficiently investigating the issue, Jack claimed he was arrested twice as he attempted to rescue Elizabeth from the den.

On the first instance, he said he went to the flat, was arrested and then swiftly de-arrested at his nearby address and told not to go back.

But, he ignored the direction and claimed he kicked the door before being arrested again. He was then taken to Rotherham police station where he was booked in at the custody desk, but later released.

He claimed Elizabeth’s life being at risk was the reason he didn’t return for a third time.

After the exposure of the grooming gangs scandal in Rotherham nearly a decade later, Elizabeth submitted complaints to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) about the ordeal.

This specific complaint was not upheld as there was insufficient evidence to support the claim that Jack had been arrested twice outside the building.

However, several of Elizabeth’s complaints to the IOPC were upheld after it was revealed how she had been let down by the authorities during her horrendous ordeal.

The IOPC reached the decision in 2021, seven years after the complaint was made.

One of the sheets says that Jack was arrested for being drunk and disorderly around the time that he claims he was arrested twice outside the abuse den.

An IOPC spokesperson said: “In June, we received a voluntary complaint referral from South Yorkshire Police, which included an allegation relating to concerns regarding a custody record of a family member.

“After assessing the matter, we decided that this complaint should be returned to the force for SYP to deal with the complaint as it deems reasonable and proportionate, noting that the allegation was similar to a previous complaint made by the complainant that had already been through the complaints process.

“The complainant has been notified of our decision.”

A South Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “The IOPC have since reviewed that complaint and subsequently determined that this is a matter for South Yorkshire Police to manage.

“We have since determined that the matter should be investigated, and that investigation is now underway. The complainant has been notified of our decision to investigate.”

One curious element about the custody sheet, accessed in June 2021, is that the report has written Jack’s address and age but they are inconsistent with what was accurate for that period.

The listed address is a property that Jack did not live at until 2010.

The new investigation comes after Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told GB News nearly 1,000 previously closed cases surrounding grooming allegations had been reopened.

She said investigators were looking for new evidence following the Government announcing plans to launch a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, which Farage said should include the evidence from the Rotherham incident.

Cooper last month confirmed Labour would accept 12 of the recommendations made in Baroness Casey’s rape gangs review when announcing the inquiry.

She said rape laws should be tightened and many girls convicted of child prostitution should be cleared.

“We have lost more than a decade. That must end now,” Cooper told MPs in the House of Commons.

“This will mark the biggest programme of work ever pursued to root out the grooming gangs.”