{"id":547203,"date":"2026-04-23T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547203\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:36:11","slug":"no-rape-took-place-outside-epsom-church-say-surrey-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547203\/","title":{"rendered":"No rape took place outside Epsom church, say Surrey Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The woman, who is in her 20s, initially reported that she had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8dl5yevjg9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raped outside Epsom Methodist Church<\/a> in the early hours of 11 April, after leaving Labyrinth Epsom nightclub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The church&#8217;s Reverend Catherine Hutton told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_surrey\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Surrey<\/a> she felt a &#8220;huge sense of relief for the young woman&#8221; and hoped she found &#8220;full recovery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she was relieved about the &#8220;definitive outcome&#8221; of the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, it doesn&#8217;t negate the fact that feeling safe on our streets remains a high concern for women,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The recent protests have revealed some prejudices within society, which have been acted on in a way that has caused fear and victimisation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just want to reiterate that every person deserves to be treated with respect and compassion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hutton said Epsom &#8220;would heal and move forward&#8221; with a &#8220;greater sense of community&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman, who is in her 20s, initially reported that she had been raped outside Epsom Methodist Church&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547204,"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-547203","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\/547203","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=547203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}