A FATHER has raised concerns after police failed to investigate inappropriate messages sent to his 11-year-old daughter.

The Amesbury man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, called the police after his 11-year-old step-daughter was sent inappropriate messages from a stranger last Sunday.

The girl, who uses messaging app Whatsapp to keep in touch with friends and family, was contacted by a stranger using a mobile number with an Indian +91 area code.

When her father responded to the message asking how they got hold of the girl’s mobile number, the man responded asking the girl to video call him and saying: “Are you interested sex me [sic]”.

And shortly after, the girl’s friends got in touch with her to say they had received similar messages.

The man proceeded to phone the 11-year-old girl twice on video chat, with her parents answering the calls.

Her father said: “He asked her things which enraged me, being a parent”.

“I rang the police and asked them about it and they weren’t interested, because he’s in a different country they said there’s nothing they can do.

“My daughter’s obviously still quite shaken up.”

“She’s obviously really scared, every time her phone goes off she is petrified.

“She’s done the right thing, she has blocked him, but it’s the outrage that the police just weren’t even interested at all.

“They didn’t give me a crime reference number - they didn’t even ask for my details.

“I have got nothing against the police, but as a parent I think they should be notifying people. In this day and age you don’t know what’s happening.”

A Wiltshire Police spokesperson said: “We are sorry that the victim's father felt on this occasion that he did not receive the service he would have expected”, and invited him to call the force again so “we can ascertain any risk or a need to put safeguarding in place”.