Number of children involved in Rotherham sex exploitation 'closer to 2,000'

The number of victims in the Rotherham sex exploitation scandal may be even more than the 1,400 children identified in a damning report, according to the town's MP and a project which tried to tackle the problem.

Professor Alexis Jay's report provoked shock and controversy last summer when it described how hundreds of children had been subjected to rape, violence and trafficking by gangs of mainly Asian men in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.