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An investigation into police misconduct in the Rotherham child abuse scandal has upheld a complaint from the victim in the matter that South Yorkshire Police did not respond appropriately to the incident.

Arshid Hussain, who was jailed for 35 years in 2016 for 23 offences against nine girls after being revealed as the ringleader of a child grooming gang in the town, was involved in the incident in 2000.

A 2013 South Yorkshire Police investigation had found ‘no evidence to substantiate the claims’ of the deal after it was reported by The Times.

But in the 2016 court case, the jury found Hussain guilty of abduction after hearing evidence that a now-deceased police officer called Hassan Ali had been involved in arranging for Hussain to hand over the girl in exchange for him not being prosecuted.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct has now upheld a complaint about the police handling of the incident. South Yorkshire Police has fully accepted the findings of the overarching IOPC report, which examined allegations of police misconduct during the Rotherham abuse scandal.

Its ruling on this incident said: "We upheld the survivor's report that SYP did not respond appropriately in a child abduction case which ended with the survivor being handed over to officers by the CSA/E perpetrator as part of a 'deal' not to arrest him.

"We found no evidence the police ever issued the perpetrator with a child abduction warning notice, or harbouring notice.

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