A victim of the grooming gangs scandal has accused the government of “another betrayal” after it emerged that key evidence could have been destroyed caused by Home Office delays in ordering the retention of records.
The department has admitted that it took seven months to write to police forces and other agencies to formally request they preserve records relating to grooming gangs in their area.
Fiona Goddard, who was groomed and repeatedly raped by a gang of men of Pakistani heritage in Bradford from the age of 14, said the admission had further undermined trust with survivors.
