Watch: C4′s shocking report – Met ignore rape


by Sunny Hundal    
12:28 am - June 29th 2010

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This was Channel 4′s main news story today, focusing on how the Met Police finally accepted that they had de-prioritised rape and paid

The Guardian reported today:

In a damning report, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) today described the police investigation into the series of attacks as a “shameful chapter” in the history of the Metropolitan police.

Kirk Reid, 45, a chef and children’s football coach, is serving a life sentence after being convicted of 27 sexual offences, including two of rape, on women on the A24 corridor and near Balham and Tooting underground stations. Police have linked him to a possible 80-100 more sexual assaults between 2001 and 2008.

The IPCC said that even though Reid had been considered a suspect as long ago as 2004, he slipped through the net because of “sustained failure by senior supervisory officers”.

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Reader comments


1. Gaf the Horse

And this state of affairs is only going to be mad worse by this, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10442823.stm

2. gherkinette

I am glad to see someone exposing the appalling record of the Met on rape cases. I’m a bit of an expert myself having had them cock up both my rape cases and let two serial offenders free, but the world doesn’t want to know how weak the boys in blue are at helping damsels in distress (unless they are bloned, blue eyed, middle class, virginal and rich…)

Please keep the pressure on them so the new version of Sapphire doesn’t end up the same dangerous farce. Us victims can only do so much…

3. Sally

The Met is one of the most right wing police forces in the country and as we all know conservatives don’t take rape seriously. So no surprise in this story.

That is why all the brownshirt trolls on here want to protect the rapist and punish the rape victim.


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