There are fears over a new Rochdale grooming gang after police in West Yorkshire say they are investigating almost 200 new child sex crimes.

It comes as a 12-man Asian gang were jailed for more than 140 years for abusing a 13-year-old girl in Keighley last year.

West Yorkshire Police say they are investigating 179 new sex crimes involving 165 suspects.

It also follows the shocking BBC drama Three Girls which raised awareness of the Rochdale scandal which of a gang who preyed on teenage girls plying them with drink and drugs before abusing them.

Child safety campaigner Angela Sinfield, based in West Yorkshire, said the number of girls affected in the Keighley area is probably higher then the figure the police have due to many afraid to come forward.

"It should not be down to that child having to make the complaint. At the moment, if the child refuses to give evidence then the case doesn't come to court," she told the Keighley News.

"One of the biggest problems is that these children don't see themselves as victims. They'll say that these men are their "boyfriends", even when these are much older, married men."

The deprived town has been labelled as being at the "top of the list" for organised groups of Asian men grooming young white girls.