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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
John Scheerhout & Pat Hurst

GMP pay out £2,800 in damages for 'failed probe' into homeless woman who was sexually assaulted in tent as she slept

A homeless woman sexually assaulted by a stranger as she slept in a tent has been awarded damages after police failed to investigate, her lawyers said.

The victim was sleeping on the streets of Manchester city centre when she woke to find the man in her tent with his hand inside her clothes.

She immediately reported the incident to police and officers arrived at the scene.

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