...The case collapsed when one of the women
complained she’d been coerced by other 'female' officers into making false allegations, while the other
admitted she’d never even met the man.
By , J4MB: A piece by David Brown in today’s online edition of The Times, considerably longer than the piece in the print edition. Emphases ours:complained she’d been coerced by other 'female' officers into making false allegations, while the other
admitted she’d never even met the man.
The case against a policeman accused of raping two women has collapsed after one of the alleged victims said that she was coerced by other officers into making false allegations.
Sergeant Blair Pettigrew was accused of raping two women and indecently assaulting a third.
The case has been dropped after the High Court in Edinburgh was told that one of the alleged victims admitted she had never met Sergeant Pettigrew.
His defence lawyers had repeatedly sought the disclosure of the prosecution evidence.
It was claimed that two female detectives involved had questioned one of the alleged victims three times, and she had initially denied knowing Sergeant Pettigrew before identifying him.