Nigel Farage Ukip aide is child sex predator who has been jailed for seven years for grooming a young boy
Pro-Brexit party leader has drawn flak for linking migrants to sex attacks but former activist Aaron Knight is convicted perv
WHILE Nigel Farage was pushing for Brexit by claiming migrants will sexually abuse British women, a former Ukip party aide was serving time behind bars for paedo attacks on a boy.
The seven-year-old victim’s furious mum tore into Farage for the controversial comments - which came as vile Aaron Knight was just weeks into his long stretch in prison.
The sick pervert was given seven years for subjecting the child to horrific abuse after grooming him for over a year in South Thanet, Kent – where he was campaigning for Ukip during the General Election.
The boy’s mum, who cannot be named, said: “It makes my blood boil hearing Farage going on about how migrants are going to carry out sex attacks if they come to this county.
“If Mr Farage and his mates in Ukip had been looking a bit closer to home, my son might not have been harmed.
“I still can’t believe Aaron Knight was able to worm his way into a job with Ukip like he did.
“He’s just a disgusting individual. I will never be able to forgive him for what he has done to my child and my family.”
Knight, of Ramsgate, Kent, admitted two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and one count of sexual assault on a child under 13.
He worked for Ukip as assistant campaign manager in South Thanet, and was also made leader of the party’s youth wing “Young Independence” in Kent.
Knight was captured on video discussing his decision to join the party, saying: “They paid me and hired me because I’m very good at talking. I was a very charismatic person.”
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But the activist was keeping a sordid secret from the people he claimed to represent – he had been systematically grooming the boy for a substantial period of time.
He warned the child his mum would “tick him off” if he were to tell anyone “their secret” – which began in September 2013.
Knight was jailed last month for his crimes.
After the hearing at Canterbury Crown Court, the investigating officer PC David Greig said: “Knight is a dangerous predatory paedophile who wormed his way into the trust of others before exploiting an innocent child for his own sexual gratification.”
Knight reportedly befriended Farage down the pub, and lavished praise on party chiefs to get his position.
But weeks after the “incident”, he suddenly quit the party for “personal reasons”.
He recently spoke out against them: “I thought Ukip were a people’s party. But they say one thing and mean another.”
The party has said it was “appalled” at Knight’s sick crimes.
A spokesman added: “Mr Knight worked for Ukip in Thanet South for four months until he was dismissed for lack of performance over a year ago.
“We extend our deepest sympathy to the victims and their families for these heinous crimes.”