'Cover-up' over alleged girl rape say Reform duo

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- CAITLIN DOHERTY

REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage and the youngest council leader in the country, George Finch, have claimed there has been a “cover-up’ of details about an alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton.

Two men who are reportedly Afghan asylum seekers have been charged in relation to the alleged incident in the Warwickshire town.

Mr Farage linked a perceived lack of information from police to what happened in Southport last July, telling a Westminster press conference that he wanted to discuss a “cover-up that in many ways is reminiscent of what happened after the Southport killings last year”.

He later told the same event: “It is not (...) in any way at all a contempt of court for the British public to know the identity of those who allegedly have committed serious crimes. I felt that in the wake of the Southport attacks, and I feel that ever more strongly today.”

Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, was arrested on July 26 and charged the next day with rape, according to Warwickshire Police.