

THE child-sex gang jailed for the Rotherham abuse scandal racked up more than £500,000 in legal aid costs - which was paid for by the taxpayer.

Rotherham paedosPA

The Rotherham sex gang have been jailed for a combined 102 years




But it cost taxpayers £529,000 for each of the gang members to be defended in court.  

Arshid Hussain, 40, the ringleader who groomed, raped and abused 15 teenage girls, was jailed for 35 years in February.



Ringleader Arshid Hussain was sentenced to 35 years in jail


Qurban Ali, uncle of the three main abusers, was jailed for 10 years

The harm you have caused is of unimaginable proportions

Judge Sarah Wright to the Rotherham child sex gang

Female accomplice Karen MacGregor, 58, was jailed for 13 years while Shelley Davis, 40, was given an 18-month suspended sentence. The women's combined legal bill topped 138,000. 








The gang were said to have run Rotherham "with impunity". 

Jailing them earlier this year, Judge Sarah Wright said: "The harm you have caused is of unimaginable proportions."
