{"id":625239,"date":"2026-04-24T09:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625239\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:16:11","slug":"surrey-police-closes-investigation-into-reports-of-rape-outside-epsom-church-as-no-sexual-offence-occurred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625239\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey Police closes investigation into reports of rape outside Epsom church as &#8216;no sexual offence occurred&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Surrey Police will close an investigation into reports of a rape outside a church in Epsom that led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/news\/epsom-news-church-gang-rape-allegations-protesters-storm-streets-hurl-eggs-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">widespread public disorder.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the force confirmed that &#8220;no sexual offence occurred&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman from the force said: &#8220;What has become clear is that a woman in her 20s during a night out in Epsom, sustained an accidental head injury prior to making a confused report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Police confirmed local officers will maintain &#8220;a visible presence&#8221; in Epsom.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Police received a report on Saturday, April 11 that a woman had been raped near a church in the early hours of the morning after leaving Labyrinth nightclub in Epsom.<\/p>\n<p>There was some public anger that the force had not released the ethnicity of any suspects, leading to a number of protests in the town.<\/p>\n<p>In an update on Thursday, the force said it had made a &#8220;thorough investigation&#8221; into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the early stages of this investigation, we issued an appeal for any witnesses or information that could help us progress our enquiries and identify any potential suspects,&#8221; they said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"017fe\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"3dfbfdafbe9d87059c1d6a64c8812189\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201600%20900'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/surrey-police-hq.png\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Surrey Police HQ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Surrey Police has closed its investigation<\/p>\n<p> | GOOGLE<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman continued: &#8220;There was a lack of information in our initial appeal particularly regarding potential persons of interest. This was because the descriptions given were vague and limited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We recognise this caused concern amongst the community. We are now confident that there was no offence, and there were no suspects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our local officers will maintain a visible presence in Epsom over the coming days so please speak to them if you have any concerns or questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey Police will close an investigation into reports of a rape outside a church in Epsom that led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[117556,49,48,44,6975,50950,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-625239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-across-the-uk","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-south-east","14":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}