{"id":527748,"date":"2026-04-13T02:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/527748\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T02:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:02:10","slug":"police-launch-appeal-after-woman-raped-by-several-men-outside-surrey-church-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/527748\/","title":{"rendered":"Police launch appeal after woman raped by several men outside Surrey church | Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A woman was raped by several men outside a church after leaving a nightclub in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/surrey\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Surrey<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The woman in her 20s reported she was attacked after being followed leaving Labyrinth Epsom between 2am and 4am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The attack is believed to have occurred outside Epsom Methodist Church in Ashley Road, Epsom, which is about 100 metres from the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police said they did not have full descriptions of the suspects but officers were conducting extensive inquiries to identify and locate them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Anyone with information, witnesses and motorists who may have dashcam video have been asked to contact police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">DI Aine Matthews said: \u201cWe understand this is an extremely distressing incident and the victim is being supported by specialist officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Matthews added: \u201cOur investigation is in its early stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe are working at pace to develop our picture of the suspects, and we will share details as soon as we are able to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cAs part of our investigation, we would like to speak to anyone who was in the area between 2am and 4am and may have seen or spoken to a woman in her 20s in distress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage from the area at the time have been urged to contact Surrey police quoting reference number PR\/45260041426.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Information can also be provided anonymously through independent charity Crimestoppers by calling 0800 555 111 or online form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"> Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organisations. In the UK, <a href=\"https:\/\/rapecrisis.org.uk\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rape Crisis<\/a> offers support on 0808 500 2222 in England and Wales, 0808 801 0302 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a>, or 0800 0246 991 in <a href=\"https:\/\/rapecrisisni.org.uk\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Ireland<\/a>. In the US, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainn.org\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rainn<\/a> offers support on 800-656-4673. In Australia, support is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1800respect.org.au\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1800Respect<\/a> (1800 737 732). Other international helplines can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/rcip\/internl.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ibiblio.org\/rcip\/internl.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was raped by several men outside a church after leaving a nightclub in Surrey, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-527748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527748","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=527748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}