Martin Daubney makes heartbreaking claim after father of grooming victim speaks out: 'I don't know what I would do'

The tear-jerking response came after an interview with Marlon West, one of the victims fathers, who criticised Labour's approach to tackling the grooming gangs.

Martin said: "Charlie Peters, can I thank you for giving a voice to all these people, to the survivors, and thank you for giving a voice to Marlon West an incredible man.

"I don't know if I could still be alive if that happened to my daughter. I honestly don't know what I would do.

"I think a great many people watching this programme probably agree. Thank you so much Charlie. You're doing God's work as ever. Thank you."

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He added: "It's harrowing and it's heartbreaking in equal measure. She was drugged. She was raped. She was forcibly used, passed around like a piece of meat.

"She'd go missing, the police were told and they would turn up. They arrested her at one point, did they not? Because she was passing on drugs.

"She was being given drugs. She was being drugged. She was being forced fed vodka in a hotel room.

"She was picked up in car parks when she was 14 with a car full of grown men. The police did nothing, here is a father. God knows how he's still alive.

"God knows how he's still soldiering on. One of the bravest men you'll ever meet."

In his GB News interview, West expressed deep skepticism about Labour's handling of the grooming gangs crisis.

"The independent inquiries are not worth the paper that they are written on. I've been campaigning now for nearly two years for a national public inquiry," West told GB News.

He explained that current independent inquiries were insufficient because their recommendations are not enforceable.

West revealed he had met with safeguarding minister Jess Phillips to discuss the issue.

Minutes from a November meeting, seen exclusively by GB News, showed West had raised the possibility of creating a national strategy.

However, West clarified that he had actually gone to Westminster to argue for a national public inquiry, not just a strategy.

He criticised the current investigations for "skimming over" cases rather than dissecting them properly.