Woman’s rape case pay-out from police

A WOMAN whose rape allegation was dismissed as ‘all being b ****** s’ by a Greater Manchester Police detective has won a fivefigure damages pay-out from the force.

Speaking after the case was settled, the woman said she was ‘unfairly judged and ignored’.

Her legal team said her allegation had wrongly not been recorded as a crime and officers had ‘misread and disregarded’ the conclusions of a forensics report which recommended further DNA tests.

As a result, no action against the man she accused was taken.

That was in 2011.

But, said solicitors who represented the woman, a similar allegation was made against the same man by a different woman five years later in 2016.

Force records were re-examined, but a taped recording of the first woman’s original interview could not be found.

The fact her allegation wasn’t recorded as a crime was also discovered.

That led to an investigation by police watchdogs, who then called the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Emails between a detective sergeant and a female officer, a Pc, were uncovered which the woman’s solicitors said ‘mocked’ her and the ‘legitimacy of her accusations’. The detective sergeant wrote ‘no crime submitted due to it all being b ****** s’.

GMP has since ‘apologised wholeheartedly’ to the woman and said the level of service ‘fell well below the very least she would have expected’.

Hudgell Solicitors has revealed details of the case after it was settled.