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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
It is being investigated by London police.
That said - without the victim cooperating - it won't go anywhere unless there was video or something. Its hard enough to get sexual assault crimes prosecuted even with full cooperation.
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Not necessarily. We know sexual assault investigations are complex and difficult, but this isn't a he-said/she-said; there are a lot of people involved.
If you can build a strong case without involving the victim then it may change their decision to participate or not. Breaching their confidentiality is definitely a concern, but it should be manageable.
I'm not sure if anything like this already exists, but there should be criminal and civil repercussions to leaking victim identity (and hopefully as a society we can have other ways of making that a bad option - if a name leaks focus should turn to who did it and they should face the full force of 'consequence culture').
Is it possible to have a publication ban/sealing order at this stage of a case? If not, that is also something that needs to changed. And it could/should extend to the naming of rumoured perpetrators, too.