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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Josh Salisbury

Gay club Heaven faces permanent closure in crunch meeting as police probe 'rape and assaults'

Heaven nightclub near Charing Cross - (Getty Images)

London’s best-known gay club could face closure at a crunch meeting on Friday as police investigate an alleged rape and assaults at the premises.

World-famous LGBT+ venue Heaven has been shuttered for three weeks after a security guard was charged with raping a drunk 18-year-old woman in a car near the venue last month. Staff are accused of then ignoring her efforts to report the attack.

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