Manchester police pay £8,000 to woman urged to drop rape claim

The woman says an officer told her that reporting the alleged rape would take a year to resolve and come to nothing in court. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Greater Manchester police (GMP) have paid out £8,000 to a woman who reported being drugged and raped, only to be pressed into dropping the case without a proper investigation “because nothing will come of it”.

The 31-year-old woman, who is married with three children, reported the rape on 14 July 2019, a few hours after waking up disoriented at the alleged perpetrator’s house in Wigan, Greater Manchester.