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freeme07

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Legal help when attacked and police will not act
« on: 06 July 2007, 07:12:31 pm »
I would like to know what else can be done after reporting via the dodgy punters / via crimestoppers, not once but each time l was attacked by a client.
i Gave phone no details of the guy etc but much to my horror be came back at my place , i work alone. Trying to get in and attack me again, l called police three time in the same afternoon explaining i had reported his sex assult on me via crime stoppers and even contacted my area sexworkers project to warn others and gave out his number he used.

Police never truned up , l got the guy on my video phone comming and going from my place. When police did show up some hours later, they failed to take any noitce of what l said to them about being attacked by him and reported it via dodgy punters.
The police officers said " all we will do is call him to warn him not to call you again" and the police did not follow up what happened before.
So hes free to do this to another person.
Yet since working on own, l have been very unluckly of being attacked before and did not delay in reporting it.

My same area police force have treated me so badly mess up each case l reported, and making judgements about me. Due to the work l do, so the cleints in two of the reports l made to police had deined the sex assult. The third one l did not have his number and yet thier where wittness outside my place seeing the male leave. Police failed to check cctv .

I tried to carrying on working since and gone to get help with the stress and been effecting my work at times.

My normal ways of self protection , does not seem to work, and in Jan this year l helpped a police force , and did a DVD INTERVIEW as l had a cleint in back on the 14/1/06 who went on to killl street base grils. Who is facing court next year for. But what l would like help on is was l right to report these attacks and was l right not to report a futher attack last oct 06, when l knew full well, the police would treat me so badly again?
As a result of not reporting the cleint then, l got his details mixed up in jan, this year, when l was undergoing the police DVD interview.
I need to know if anyone know if l can get legal help or anything else you may wish to adivce or help me on?

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Re: Legal help when attacked and police will not act
« Reply #1 on: 07 July 2007, 02:47:43 pm »
Sounds appalling.

Question one: where are you?
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Re: Legal help when attacked and police will not act
« Reply #2 on: 09 July 2007, 06:14:39 pm »
Hi mildlands area and the problum l have found is unless l was working on the streets and and drugs or homeless etc, then only will l get the help and support. The fact is l am not and work by my ownfreedom of chooice is where there is lack of support and legal adivce.

My street wise nature now kicks in and at times l have to take a break from working, to feel refresh. Yet one side of me enjoys my work , the other is now saying prehaps its time to try something else.

I would welcome any views and feed back on how l able to bring my attackers to book or even sue the police for failing me.
My area police force still have a backward views of those of us working my chooice,like" how can she be attacked ? Yet l find is very upsetting that within a 30miles from my area there is not a sexworkers project or that thier one that does no want to put pressure on to exit the line of work one is in.
Has anyone else come across this too?

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Re: Legal help when attacked and police will not act
« Reply #3 on: 11 July 2007, 04:44:47 pm »
Thanks - perhaps I should have phrased the question better: which police force?

Annoyingly(?) it is extremely difficult to sue the police for this sort of thing.

Few people are surprised to hear that one of the main cases that sets out how little people can do when the police have failed to protect someone was brought by the mother of one of Peter Suttcliffe's last victims. She claimed that the police should have caught him before he killed her daughter, but the courts said that the 'public interest' in the police not worrying about being sued for any errors they may make outweighed any duty of care to any general individual.

To give an idea of how far that extends, a subsequent case involved 'P', known to be stalking a 15-year-old boy. 'P' actually told the police there was a danger that he would do something "criminally insane" and went on to deliberately ram a vehicle in which the boy was a passenger. No effective action was taken, and P went on to shoot the boy and kill the boy's father two months later. The police were sued, but the Court of Appeal said the action should not be allowed to proceed on public policy grounds.

It is much, much easier to get funding for an 'exiting' project than for a 'harm minimisation' one...
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Re: Legal help when attacked and police will not act
« Reply #4 on: 17 July 2007, 06:01:42 pm »
Thanks for your reply,

This is what l thought may be the case but so far my efforts to even find a law frim to at least take a look at my case and the grounds for bringing a case, is getting to me big time. Its so stressful, trying to work and also trying to keep a happy face while l still seeking a non-judgemental lawyer that will assit me.
Does anyone have any tips where l may go to get the support and legal help l need? I have come across many failings with the police is how they have treated when l have needed to report a cleint.
Not that l get that many that are, back in march l had a cleint that tried it on and managed to get rid of him and reported him and his no via the crimestoppers, one stop campaign. Nothing came of this as, two mths later on saturday he only truned up at my door and trying his luck again. Luckly he did not get near me, but was trying me door etc and hanging around out side, which ment l was not able to work.
Dispite calling the police dirct this time, three times the police failed to show up and hours later, when it was to late.

I should not have to use my real name , while reporting a cleint like this! :

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Re: Legal help when attacked and police will not act
« Reply #5 on: 17 July 2007, 10:24:40 pm »
when dealing with the law yes you do have to use your real name where as if going via crimestoppers is  different matter, however as the victim yes real name is defo needed for court proceedings etc. otherwise it will give the defense team ammo to use against you.

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Re: Legal help when attacked and police will not act
« Reply #6 on: 18 July 2007, 01:54:13 pm »
If I know the actual force, I may be able to point you in the direction either of an individual officer (especially if you are covered by the 'LGBT' - lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender - umbrella) or know of a project elsewhere in that force's area which may be able to help.

But unless you are in a witness protection scheme or the police have otherwise accepted responsibility for your personal safety, forget trying to sue them.
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