Two whistleblowers in the Rotherham sexual abuse scandal have accused the police watchdog of protecting senior police officers and acting "like the Mafia".
Youth worker, Jayne Senior, and former police strategic drugs analyst, Angie Heal, made a complaint against senior command at South Yorkshire police for failing to protect children against sexual grooming gangs in Rotherham.
Last week, the complaint was successfully upheld by the police watchdog.
However, the pair say they had to battle to get their allegations heard and say they were originally warned by the watchdog they were making a "vexatious complaint," which could lead to imprisonment.
Ms Senior, a youth worker awarded an MBE in 2016, says when she made the complaint about senior officers, she was told by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC): "If I continued, I would be seen as a vexatious complainant, which means I would be stopped from making any more complaints."
When she pressed ahead, she added: "I received a very angry telephone call from someone in the IOPC, saying very clearly that if I continue down this path, I need to be very aware that there's actually legislation that if a vexatious complainant continues to complain they can be looking at two years' imprisonment."
She later told her husband: "Wow, it's like the mafia - you try to go for them at the top and everyone around them comes out fighting."
She told Sky News: "They see us as a pariah. Rather than thinking...
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