Children born of rape do not count as victims, police have said, after a woman seeks to prosecute her birth father after allegedly raping her mother.

The woman, who wants her father brought to justice in a victimless prosecution by using her own DNA as key evidence, discovered the alleged rape while going through her adoption records.

The complainant has alleged that her mother was a young teenage schoolgirl, well under the age of consent, when a family friend carried out the rape in the 1970s.

The daughter said her birth is proof of a child rape and wants a DNA test carried out to use as evidence against her father. She now sees herself as “a walking crime scene”.

However, the police have said "the law does not recognise her as a victim in these circumstances".

West Midlands Police said they had liaised closely with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) over the allegation and it would not support a prosecution through the courts.