Josie Jolley, a postgraduate at the University of Sussex, took her own life last year, nine months after reporting she had been raped in London A STUDENT who reported she had been raped was told her alleged attacker would not face court action due to a police decision, it has been revealed. Josie Jolley, an “extremely bright” PhD student at the University of Sussex, took her own life in September last year, nine months after she had reported being raped in London in December 2019. An inquest into the 25-year-old's death at Brighton Coroner's Court heard Josie had contacted police in Sussex and had been interviewed by officers at the Metropolitan Police, who had passed the case to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).