{"id":330788,"date":"2025-12-23T01:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330788\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T01:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:43:07","slug":"womans-sex-assault-police-report-was-published-in-tabloids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330788\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s sex assault police report was published in tabloids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jenny wrote a letter to her friend about it at the time, and told her brother and mum. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She withdrew from life and it was only when her 24-year-old brother died when she was 23 that she decided to try &#8220;to live my life again&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and one night, when she was dancing with friends at a student bar, a friend arrived and dropped the late edition of the Sun on the table. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It reported that the famous man who had sexually assaulted her had been arrested after other women made similar allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It was the first moment that it occurred to me that I hadn&#8217;t got myself into a difficult situation and that this man and his friend could be serially violent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This made her feel a &#8220;moral obligation to report&#8221; him, but said this was her experience and it was OK that most other survivors &#8220;don&#8217;t want to report or ever talk&#8221; about their experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was interviewed by police twice and then, four days later, she was with her boyfriend who was reading a tabloid when he looked at her and said: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know there was two of them.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He knew something had happened, but she had protected him from the intricate details of the assault. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jenny was not named, but there in black and white was the confidential report she made just days earlier in the police station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was terrifying,&#8221; Jenny said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenny wrote a letter to her friend about it at the time, and told her brother and mum.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-330788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}