Civil Liberties

Police agree damages with woman told ‘nothing will come of it’ after alleging rape

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04 Mar 2022

Greater Manchester Police has agreed to pay damages to a mother who says officers dismissed her fears that she’d been drugged and raped on a night out and told her ‘nothing would come of it’.

She says two officers came out but were dismissive of her situation and even suggested she and her husband go to the man she feared had raped her to ‘set the record straight.’

Now, Greater Manchester Police has agreed to pay her damages of £8,000 following a legal claim, led by Hudgell Solicitors, in relation to how she was initially treated by officers who first visited her in July 2019.

Associate Solicitor Nicola Bailey Gibbs, part of the Civil Liberties team at Hudgell Solicitors, described the approach of officers as ‘shocking’.

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