Key evidence not tested in alleged sex assault case as woman 'let down' by police
Woman reported sex attack but police failings nearly destroyed her career A judge found officers breached her human rights Updated Merseyside Police headquarters (Image: Liverpool Echo) Police failings deprived a woman of potentially "powerful" evidence against a man she accused of sexually assaulting her. The suspect was cleared of wrongdoing following a trial that became mired in claims the alleged victim's evidence was unreliable because she had taken cocaine that night. The woman denied this - but lost the opportunity to prove those claims were false because police did not test blood and ...