内容摘要：The government is struggling to cut the amount of foreign aid it spends on hotel bills for asylum seekers in the UK, the BBC has learnt.

The government is struggling to cut the amount of foreign aid it spends on hotel bills for asylum seekers in the UK, the BBC has learnt.

When Kiera was just nine years old she gave an interview on camera to Lancashire Police describing the harrowing details of the sexual abuse she had been subjected to over several years.But a few months later, she says, police officers told her mother they had lost the recording.

"It was really hard, because I sat there for hours and hours telling people what had happened to me and for that to be lost, I just thought like what's the point in doing it again?" said Kiera, now 19."They did want me to do it again, but I just couldn't go through with it at the time."It wasn't until nine years later, when Kiera was an adult, that she felt strong enough to provide her evidence again.

In October 2024, her perpetrators were jailed for almost 30 years for raping and sexually assaulting seven children, including her."It can really affect someone's mental state. It's also not protecting other people because these people then don't get convicted of crimes."

A Lancashire Police spokesperson apologised for the lost interview disc in her case, and said, since 2015, it had introduced new processes to prevent similar issues happening again.

Responding to the BBC's findings, Katie Kempen, chief executive at independent charity Victim Support, said: "Police forces must ensure crimes are thoroughly investigated and evidence is handled appropriately and sensitively.It was claimed Mr Rodhouse told Sir Richard in a private presentation in 2016 that he was "satisfied" the other two complainants had "told deliberate lies". Mr Rodhouse disputes that claim.

When Operation Midland had closed months earlier with no arrests or charges, Scotland Yard issued a public statement to the media that said detectives had "not found evidence to prove that they were knowingly misled by a complainant".New material presented to the IOPC by the Met Police led to the investigation being closed.

The police watchdog said there was "no evidence" within the fresh material that there was "any inappropriate motivation in Mr Rodhouse's comments to the media" or which "supports that he made those remarks during Sir Richard's review".It said there was "substantial evidence to indicate" comments made to the media were "the result of collaboration between senior Met officers and staff".