Ali Dizaei witness
Ali Dizaei witness
Waad Al Baghdadi is in prison for benefit fraud. He is now under investigation for rape. That story is referred to in the Guardian Articl
Guardian
Rape allegation 'brushed off' by Met police, claims woman
Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating after the Met commissioner received complaint
guardian.co.uk, Friday 16 September 2011 21.19 BST
Article history
Two investigations have been triggered by claims that
police bungled a rape investigation during which a woman claims information she told investigators was leaked to the alleged attacker.
In
written statements seen by the Guardian, the Muslim woman says her
alleged attacker then sought her out threatened to kill her, and
mutilate members of her family as revenge for her going to the police.
The alleged attacker bragged about how he was "protected" by the police,
after testifying in a high-profile case that led to a conviction.
The
woman alleges that not only did detectives fail to take her allegations
seriously, but that they accused her of making them up for money. Five
months after she first complained to the police, she claims the same man
raped her for a second time.
A new investigation into the alleged attacks was ordered last month by
Bernard Hogan-Howe, the new Met commissioner, after he received a complaint from the woman, who is in her late 20s.
The
Independent Police Complaints Commission is supervising an investigation into the allegations against the Met officers' conduct.
Legal restrictions mean the Guardian is heavily limited in giving the background and the full context of the case.
The first alleged rape took place in
London in
April 2010, during which implements are alleged to have been used. The
woman and man had dated, but split up. In September 2010 she reported
the incident to the police, but told no one else. The next day, she
says, the suspect telephoned her sister: "He already knew the fact that I
had reported him to the police.
"I had not shared that information with anyone, not even my close friends or family," the woman said in a written statement.
Days
later, she says, the man called her and she recorded the conversation.
She said: "[He] threatened to kill me if I went to the police. He did
not deny raping me, instead he repeated the threat that he would throw
acid in my face." She handed the recording to the police investigating
her case.
During an interview where she laid out details of the
alleged attack, the woman says officers accused her of being paid to
make the allegations by an enemy of the suspect: " They saw [the
attacker] as a victim, not me."
The suspect was arrested, but the
woman claims that her attacker became emboldened and in January 2011
tracked her down and threatened her again. She says he claimed officers
had not even searched his house after his arrest.
"He threatened
me and told me that he was aware the police had not done anything. He
told me they [the police] were supporting him."
Fearing the police would not help her and the attacker would maim her, the woman says she withdrew her complaint.
But
in February 2011, she alleges the man came to her home and raped her
again: "I did not say anything. I was too scared. I knew he could do
whatever he wanted to me." The woman says her alleged attacker
threatened to kill her again in July.
Earlier this month Scotland Yard appointed a new team of detectives to investigate the rape allegations.
In a statement, the
Metropolitan police said:
"We can confirm we have a received an allegation of rape that took
place in February this year. Detectives from the specialist
crime directorate are investigating."
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