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0:00:09 > 0:00:13My friends, the people who know me, they say,
0:00:13 > 0:00:16"What? Juliet got raped?"
0:00:16 > 0:00:19Yeah, it...it happened to me.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21SHE EXHALES
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Big, strong, confident, outgoing,
0:00:24 > 0:00:26not scared of anybody or anything,
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Juliet, yeah, she got raped.
0:00:29 > 0:00:30SHE SOBS
0:00:30 > 0:00:31SHE EXHALES
0:00:33 > 0:00:36It is just as filthy and awful and vile as I remember it,
0:00:36 > 0:00:38even in the cold light of day.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46And every single day, you think, "Christ!
0:00:46 > 0:00:49"How...how...how am I going to get through the day?"
0:00:52 > 0:00:54No, I can't go down there. Can't do it.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57I'm never ever going to be the same again.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02For the first time ever, St Mary's,
0:01:02 > 0:01:05the UK's leading sexual assault referral centre,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08opened their doors to allow us to film them
0:01:08 > 0:01:09dealing with the victims of rape.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14From forensic medical to court and beyond.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18I just feel like he's just ruined my life. I can't move on.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22It's just constant, it's just constantly there.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Over the course of a year, we followed the team
0:01:24 > 0:01:29as they supported Juliet through an entire police investigation...
0:01:29 > 0:01:33Just literally following her step by step through her...her evening.
0:01:33 > 0:01:34SHE SOBS
0:01:34 > 0:01:38How can I not...have remembered something like that?
0:01:38 > 0:01:41..and the subsequent trial.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43This is mental.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47And through the staff of St Mary's, we gained a unique perspective
0:01:47 > 0:01:49on rape in Britain today.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52We're all frightened by this type of crime.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54We're all frightened about the stigma that it attracts
0:01:54 > 0:01:56and what people will say.
0:01:56 > 0:01:57You're doing really well.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01And I think we need to get over that fear and talk about it openly.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15St Mary's was the first of the UK's 46 sexual assault referral centres.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19It covers the Greater Manchester and Cheshire area.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22And it's here, to the small all-female team of doctors,
0:02:22 > 0:02:25crisis workers and counsellors,
0:02:25 > 0:02:28that the police bring people who say they've been raped
0:02:28 > 0:02:30to conduct a forensic examination.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39Female came in at 8:50 last night.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Her ex-partner turned up at her address. He was drunk.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47He said he was going to shag her. He took his pants down.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49She tried to push him away.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Threatened to kill her if she said anything afterwards.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Although we know rape and sexual assault happens,
0:02:54 > 0:02:58the extent and the numbers that we see,
0:02:58 > 0:03:03I think that's quite shocking when you first come to join the team.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06She's 19. She got home and did not lock the door.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08And it happens to anybody.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12She's 51. Alleged assailant was a friend.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14He's 32.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17A male grabbed him from behind.
0:03:17 > 0:03:18She's eight.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Sexual assault by second cousin.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24The youngest case that we've seen here was three weeks old.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26And the eldest, 96.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28An 80-year-old female.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30He's a friend, aged 88.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32He met her at a day centre.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41The overarching role
0:03:41 > 0:03:44is to gather good-quality evidence
0:03:44 > 0:03:46to assist in a potential investigation.
0:03:46 > 0:03:52But alongside that is providing the immediate emotional response
0:03:52 > 0:03:54to victims of rape and sexual assault.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Obviously, today you've come for a medical examination.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03But also to try and take some DNA swabs.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Because it is part of an investigation, as well as being for your health,
0:04:07 > 0:04:10we need to be thorough and make sure everything's watertight.
0:04:12 > 0:04:17Hi. The police have asked me to do this medical examination
0:04:17 > 0:04:19because of what's happened last night.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21We'll examine you from top to toe
0:04:21 > 0:04:24to see if you've got any injuries, if that's all right with you.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28Have you had a bath, a wash or a shower?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Now, I know that feels really awful,
0:04:30 > 0:04:34but it is better in terms of us collecting the evidence.
0:04:34 > 0:04:35Just out here.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40This is to get a sample of your DNA
0:04:40 > 0:04:43to compare with the other samples if they're needed.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46So if you could just pop your mouth like that.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48The idea behind St Mary's
0:04:48 > 0:04:51is for one place to be able to provide support for victims
0:04:51 > 0:04:54through a possible police investigation and beyond.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56OK.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02Hi, it's Juliet. I've got an appointment with Gail.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- "To the left on the top floor." - Thank you.
0:05:06 > 0:05:12Juliet came for her forensic medical on New Year's Day 2012.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15They said that however difficult it was going to be for me
0:05:15 > 0:05:20that she would be as gentle as she possibly could,
0:05:20 > 0:05:22but she did need to get the evidence.
0:05:22 > 0:05:27I'm just looking for any bruises or marks you might have.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30And she said, you know, at any point you can stop and have a breather,
0:05:30 > 0:05:34but she says, "Juliet, we have to do it if you want...
0:05:34 > 0:05:36"if you want to get somebody."
0:05:36 > 0:05:39The most difficult bit of this part is me to get two pairs of gloves on.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42I've got to put another layer on.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47And then you're lying down on your back...
0:05:47 > 0:05:49and then somebody's taking swabs.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51If anything feels uncomfortable, let me know.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54If you want me to stop, just say.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56And it was over.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00I mean, it felt like an eternity, but it was over...fairly quickly.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03- All done.- Thank you. - Are you OK?- Yeah.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Far cry from the old days.
0:06:07 > 0:06:08The bag of samples is here.
0:06:08 > 0:06:13Where, you know, you'd have a male doctor examining you,
0:06:13 > 0:06:16probably in a police station somewhere, I don't know.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18That, to me, would be horrifying.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24The centre has been open for over 26 years.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27To preserve their anonymity, each client is numbered.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31And Juliet is client number 15,823.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Right, so this is, er...Juliet.
0:06:35 > 0:06:40Came in, er...New Year's Day.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43She was the fourth one that day.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45We'd had seven New Year's Eve,
0:06:45 > 0:06:48so it had been quite a busy, busy time.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Attended with the police.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Describes her as being alert, co-operative, er...
0:06:54 > 0:06:56it says very tearful, plus, plus.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Two days later, Juliet went to the police station
0:07:02 > 0:07:04to record her version of events.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Now six months on, she's returning to view her DVD
0:07:09 > 0:07:12before it's used as evidence in court.
0:07:13 > 0:07:14You sit where you want to sit.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17OK. I'll probably just sit in this comfy chair.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Gail from St Mary's
0:07:19 > 0:07:22has been supporting Juliet throughout the investigation.
0:07:23 > 0:07:24Have you got some tissues?
0:07:24 > 0:07:27- I'll get some.- I am the pocket pack lady, don't worry.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29We did this on the 3rd of January?
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Yes. Yeah, it's quite some time ago now.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35Yeah, but it was very short after the...rape.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38So I'm still very much traumatised.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40That's what's going to be weird to see.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Ahem!
0:07:42 > 0:07:43I'll turn that round.
0:07:46 > 0:07:47OK?
0:07:47 > 0:07:49I look a mess!
0:07:49 > 0:07:52I just look completely dazed.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54I don't look like me. That doesn't look like me.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Do you want me to fast-forward through this bit?
0:07:57 > 0:07:59- It is the introductions, this.- Yeah.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01You don't need to watch all that part.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Just going through the initial accounts.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Last night, had drunk a bottle of wine prior to going out.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11Went to the Black Dog Ballroom, city centre.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Went alone, as a friend did not show.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18Sat on a bar stool by the bar drinking bottle of wine.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Went to the bathroom.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Came back, had a shot and then she felt very drunk.
0:08:23 > 0:08:28I've got a vague memory of a shot.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31I didn't know where it came from.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34I just assumed it was the barman.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38And I remember feeling really out of it and going,
0:08:38 > 0:08:42"What the hell are you doing here, Juliet? Go...home."
0:08:43 > 0:08:45And it's blank.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Blank.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50I don't remember anything.
0:08:50 > 0:08:55Next memory was outside the bar, going towards a car park.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59Er...sees a black hand, er...leading the way,
0:08:59 > 0:09:01and then no recollection.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03My next memory...
0:09:05 > 0:09:09..and I didn't remember this until the next morning,
0:09:09 > 0:09:11and it's in an alleyway.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16A man is forcing his penis in my mouth
0:09:16 > 0:09:18and he's got my hair
0:09:18 > 0:09:22and he's...pulling my, my face, my mouth.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27And I remember gagging and choking.
0:09:27 > 0:09:28And I remember thinking...
0:09:30 > 0:09:33.."I could bite it and it'll stop."
0:09:33 > 0:09:38But he hit me and said, "Watch the teeth, bitch!"
0:09:38 > 0:09:40SHE SOBS
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Oh!
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Fucking hell!
0:09:48 > 0:09:54The doctor's used quite a few body charts to document the injuries.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57So head...there was swelling.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59In her mouth, there was
0:09:59 > 0:10:02what's described as multiple petechial haemorrhages,
0:10:02 > 0:10:05like pinprick, small bruises.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08We sometimes see that with forced oral penetration.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11It's interesting that they mention the gag reflex,
0:10:11 > 0:10:15and that's what's thought to cause this, is the gagging.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20The doctor's actually made a video
0:10:20 > 0:10:22of the internal examination of the mouth.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27So, can you see lots of tiny little bruises?
0:10:27 > 0:10:31You have to think, is there anything else that could have caused it?
0:10:31 > 0:10:36Um...so, you know, sucking on loads of hard sweets might do it.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40If there's any sign of throat infection or anything like that.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44But it's quite marked. You don't often see it as bad as that.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48You don't have to watch it, you know.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51I'd rather watch it here, Pam, than in court.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Yeah. Do you want to go outside and just have a breather?
0:10:54 > 0:10:56- No. I'll just get through it.- OK.
0:10:58 > 0:11:03As New Year's Day wore on, I started feeling the pain.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06I think I rang the police and said,
0:11:06 > 0:11:08"My bag's been stolen
0:11:08 > 0:11:12"and I think I've been sexually assaulted in an alleyway."
0:11:12 > 0:11:15I remember saying to her, "I hurt.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21"I'm really sore between my legs.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24"Why would I be sore there?"
0:11:24 > 0:11:25Let's have a little look.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29So bruising on her arms, bruising on her right breast,
0:11:29 > 0:11:31bruising on her thigh.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35And then she had, um...an abrasion
0:11:35 > 0:11:38just near the entrance of the vagina.
0:11:38 > 0:11:39It hurts.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42It hurts to sit, it hurts to walk,
0:11:42 > 0:11:44it hurts to touch.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46It's the only thing I have
0:11:46 > 0:11:49that I know that something happened.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Because I don't remember.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54SHE SOBS I don't remember what's happened.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Except the alleyway
0:11:56 > 0:12:01and then somebody holding me there and holding me and holding me.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Oh, fucking hell!
0:12:03 > 0:12:05SHE SOBS
0:12:09 > 0:12:14How can I not...have remembered something like that?
0:12:14 > 0:12:15Did it really happen?
0:12:15 > 0:12:17There's lots of reasons, isn't there?
0:12:17 > 0:12:19There could be lots of reasons why.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21SHE SOBS
0:12:21 > 0:12:26The doctor's then taken a whole host of forensic samples.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30When you have a situation like this and it's a stranger,
0:12:30 > 0:12:34if you were to find his DNA on the person,
0:12:34 > 0:12:39well, there'd be a bit of explaining to do. How did that get there?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Um...you know, if it's on a hand, then it could be,
0:12:42 > 0:12:47well, they were talking, there was contact. Um...
0:12:47 > 0:12:49High vaginal swab?
0:12:49 > 0:12:52There'd be a bit more explaining to do about how that got there.
0:12:53 > 0:12:58I'm scared of how this is going to affect me.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Of looking at every man in the street and going, "Was it you?"
0:13:05 > 0:13:06Oh!
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Talk about a mind trip.
0:13:16 > 0:13:17And watching that...
0:13:22 > 0:13:24..I still don't remember.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28And I still can't believe that it's happened.
0:13:30 > 0:13:35I still...want it to have not happened.
0:13:35 > 0:13:36I really do.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39I really do.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41I wish somebody would come and say,
0:13:41 > 0:13:43"Juliet, you got it all wrong."
0:13:47 > 0:13:49But I know that's not going to happen.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55The perception is that stranger rape
0:13:55 > 0:13:59is the most common relationship to the perpetrator.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00That's not our experience.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12The stranger rapes in the alleyway, they're really quite rare.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14The vast majority are people that are known,
0:14:14 > 0:14:18whether it's a partner, ex-partner, colleague.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20And that's in the adults.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22When you move into the children,
0:14:22 > 0:14:25particularly the younger you go with the children,
0:14:25 > 0:14:28the more likely it is to be somebody they know.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30So the whole thing about stranger danger with children
0:14:30 > 0:14:33is almost misdirected.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Because the vast majority, it'll be somebody that they know,
0:14:36 > 0:14:38somebody that they trust.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44This colour, the buff, is to say it's an adult.
0:14:44 > 0:14:45So 18 and over.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51And the red is for 17 and under.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57Last year, 422 children.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00And it's almost an even split
0:15:00 > 0:15:04between sort of 13 to 18 and under 13.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Police referral. She's 13.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08She had Internet and phone contact with a man.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10Went to his flat.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14She didn't understand ejaculation, but said the bed was wet.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17She is five years old.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21The assailant is a worker at the nursery.
0:15:21 > 0:15:26Five-year-old. Alleged perpetrator's a 14-year-old.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Told Mum that he'd put his willy where wee-wee comes out.
0:15:29 > 0:15:33So this is a four-year-old boy
0:15:33 > 0:15:35where there's an allegation
0:15:35 > 0:15:38of paternal grandfather doing something.
0:15:38 > 0:15:43You know, from their perspective, it's going to see the doctor.
0:15:43 > 0:15:48We try and make it as engaging for them as possible.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51We've got our magic little, er...
0:15:51 > 0:15:53"choose a treat", at the end.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57So we have ways of entertaining them.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01But a lovely, lovely little boy.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05You can deal with some cases better than others, I think.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07The children are always hard. Because our children...
0:16:07 > 0:16:10Well, my youngest and Amrin's are the same age.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13- So when you see children that age, that's what upsets me.- Yeah.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Because I just want to take them home and look after them.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17But you can't.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20They're coming to get you. All the way!
0:16:20 > 0:16:22We've taken the view that
0:16:22 > 0:16:25if they've reached a threshold to come to see us,
0:16:25 > 0:16:28then really, unless there's a good reason not to,
0:16:28 > 0:16:29we ought to undertake
0:16:29 > 0:16:31sexually-transmitted infection screening.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34They can have finger prick blood testing
0:16:34 > 0:16:37for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, syphilis and HIV.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39It's over quickly. That's it, done.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42And, er...if a young person or a child
0:16:42 > 0:16:46doesn't feel comfortable with having swabs of the outside...
0:16:46 > 0:16:48of the genital area taken,
0:16:48 > 0:16:51then we can just simply do a urine sample
0:16:51 > 0:16:54and that will screen for gonorrhoea and chlamydia.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58By and large, the screens are clear.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02We do get some children who have sexually-transmitted infections,
0:17:02 > 0:17:05and then obviously, we need to treat those appropriately.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08But it can be very reassuring for families and for children
0:17:08 > 0:17:11to know that they haven't picked up any infections.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15It's drawing a line under that particular part of their journey.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22In 2012, Greater Manchester Police
0:17:22 > 0:17:25started a dedicated serious sexual offences unit,
0:17:25 > 0:17:29bringing together over 70 detectives to investigate rapes.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32In addition to the, um... the actual act,
0:17:32 > 0:17:37has she stated if there's been any sort of other penetration?
0:17:37 > 0:17:40Digital, or if there's been any oral sex or anything?
0:17:40 > 0:17:42In the past, there may have been instances
0:17:42 > 0:17:44where officers or investigators
0:17:44 > 0:17:48have been very quick to maybe disbelieve a victim coming forward.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Part of the concept of setting up our unit
0:17:51 > 0:17:54is that we will believe absolutely every person
0:17:54 > 0:17:56that comes forward to us and makes a report.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59And we will investigate it to the nth degree.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00Um...does it...
0:18:00 > 0:18:03has she said if she's washed or bathed?
0:18:03 > 0:18:06The evidence will ultimately decide, if it is there,
0:18:06 > 0:18:09as to whether somebody will be charged or not.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13We'll try and get her to St Mary's tonight if she's willing to.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16But it's such a complex area of investigation
0:18:16 > 0:18:21in that, for instance, a rape within a domestic setting.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Does the victim, um...state
0:18:24 > 0:18:27when she's last had sex with this lad, apart from yesterday?
0:18:27 > 0:18:29There's four walls and two people.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32It's very difficult to determine...
0:18:32 > 0:18:34whether or not that offence has happened.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40The decision as to whether a rape case gets to court
0:18:40 > 0:18:44is made by the Crown Prosecution Service.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46The Northern Greater Manchester branch
0:18:46 > 0:18:49is on the first floor of Bolton police station.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52So this is the Crown Court room.
0:18:52 > 0:18:57And it's made up of, um...prosecutors
0:18:57 > 0:18:58and paralegal officers.
0:18:58 > 0:19:03And all the lawyers who deal with the rapes are rape specialists.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05And Jill sits in here, as well, don't you?
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Yes. My desk is in the corner.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13So this is where Jill keeps all her cases
0:19:13 > 0:19:16- that are waiting for charging decisions.- Yes.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19My role is to allocate those cases to a lawyer in the office.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22And I would say 75% of them are rape cases.
0:19:22 > 0:19:27So typically, a rape case will come in, um...
0:19:27 > 0:19:31and it will be about this sort of size with a box folder.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33And then there'll be the DVDs to go with it.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36It can be quite shocking, but, you know,
0:19:36 > 0:19:39you can't let yourself get too caught up in the emotion.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41You've got to look at the evidence.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44That's doing a job properly for the victim, as well.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46There's no point giving somebody completely false hope
0:19:46 > 0:19:48if, really, the evidence isn't there.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50We have to be realistic about it
0:19:50 > 0:19:54and...and be...be brave and make those decisions.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07The police investigation into Juliet's case
0:20:07 > 0:20:10is hindered by her inability to remember much about her assault.
0:20:12 > 0:20:16They turn to the parts of her New Year's Eve covered by CCTV.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21This is CCTV footage. That's the victim's movements.
0:20:23 > 0:20:28Now, this is playing at twice speed. So front door, Black Dog.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Red arrow indicates Juliet approaching,
0:20:31 > 0:20:32entering through the doors
0:20:32 > 0:20:36and literally following her step by step through her evening.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40I think she orders a bottle of wine, which is left on the bar with
0:20:40 > 0:20:45a wine cooler and you can see her drinking through the night.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48I think this is the point where she goes to the loo
0:20:48 > 0:20:51and she's left her glass and her bottle on the bar.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56I think if you just see now, you see her returning.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59We've not been able to establish when she has this shot.
0:20:59 > 0:21:04But this is as if something's just hit her straight away.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Now, she just looks like she is propping herself up.
0:21:06 > 0:21:11Her head is obviously drooping and you know, I'm assuming,
0:21:11 > 0:21:13and we've got nothing to contradict this,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16that it's the bar staff that decide this girl's had enough.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20They're not going to serve her any more and they contact the door staff.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22This is when she gets ejected.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26It's a difficult message to walk
0:21:26 > 0:21:30because what we don't want to be doing is blaming the person.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33The alcohol is not the rapist. The rapist is the rapist.
0:21:34 > 0:21:39Clearly, we know from lots of different things,
0:21:39 > 0:21:41that if you've had a lot of alcohol,
0:21:41 > 0:21:44you are vulnerable to lots of things.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47This is as she comes out, using the wall to support herself.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50This was unfortunate, wasn't it?
0:21:50 > 0:21:53Because she was meant to be meeting up with a friend
0:21:53 > 0:21:56and for whatever reason that didn't happen.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Staggering all over the road.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01And she certainly shouldn't be blaming herself,
0:22:01 > 0:22:03I don't think, anyway, do you,
0:22:03 > 0:22:07for being out on New Year's Eve drinking?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11People will, though, that's the problem.
0:22:11 > 0:22:16But again, I think that's the wrong way round to look at it.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19People shouldn't be blaming themselves.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22She's literally just holding on to that post.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25She's actually in that position now for about the next 20 minutes.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32It's important that as prosecutors we deal with what are likely
0:22:32 > 0:22:35to be the issues that would be going through the minds of the jury.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38You know, you wouldn't blame the victim of burglary
0:22:38 > 0:22:41because they'd left the front door unlocked when they went to bed.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43You wouldn't say, well, they deserved to be burgled, would you?
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Well, I hope not.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47- And acquit as a result. - And acquit as a result.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50But you wouldn't acquit the defendant of burglary
0:22:50 > 0:22:53because the victim had left the front door open.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56It's the same thing. You've walked home by yourself at 3am in the morning.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59It's dark, you've got a short skirt on.
0:22:59 > 0:23:05Well, that is just the same as leaving your front door open and being burgled, you know.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07It doesn't entitle anyone to assume
0:23:07 > 0:23:10that you're consenting to what happens.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13And these are messages that have to be got over to the jury
0:23:13 > 0:23:17as part of the prosecutor's presentation of the case.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21When the smoking area clears, it's obviously coming up to midnight
0:23:21 > 0:23:23and everybody's gone inside.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26She then loosens her grip and falls and she actually lies on the floor.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29And that's when the door staff come across and they tend to her.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33There you go.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35I think if someone had gone out and put a blanket over her,
0:23:35 > 0:23:38she'd have probably slept until the morning.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42You know, the law is very clear that you cannot have intercourse
0:23:42 > 0:23:45with someone who is not capable of giving consent.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49The CCTV evidence was very compelling in connection
0:23:49 > 0:23:55with how intoxicated the complainant was on the night in question.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59And on that basis, the decision was made that the case should proceed.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Because she just couldn't have consented in law to it
0:24:02 > 0:24:04because she was just so drunk.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08Now, the minute the door staff pick her from the floor
0:24:08 > 0:24:12next to the lamp and move her across, we lose track of her.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18Although the CCTV shows that Juliet could not consent to anything,
0:24:18 > 0:24:21the assault itself is not covered on camera.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25The next time Juliet is seen is over two hours later,
0:24:25 > 0:24:28leaving an alley 40 metres away from the entrance to the club.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31The Black Dog Ballroom is up on this top corner
0:24:31 > 0:24:35and you can just see now Juliet comes staggering out.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38The time there is showing at 2:08am.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41So that's the two-hour gap.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45And she's sort of hands out, swaying around.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49So we know she's at point A and we know she ends up at point B.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53It's what happens in the interim that erm, just...
0:24:54 > 0:24:56..we can only surmise.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Without any witnesses to the rape, the only hope the police have
0:25:01 > 0:25:04of filling in the missing details of what happened
0:25:04 > 0:25:09to Juliet lies with the forensic samples taken at St Mary's.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13She was very thorough.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16It did hurt. I remember thinking, "Christ!"
0:25:16 > 0:25:18But I was so tender anyway.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22I was in so much pain anyway by this point.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27And thank God the doctor was as thorough as she was.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32When analysed, Juliet's swabs were found to contain semen.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38The key piece of evidence in this case was the forensic evidence
0:25:38 > 0:25:41because, of course, the victim had no actual recollection
0:25:41 > 0:25:45of the vaginal penetration during the incident.
0:25:46 > 0:25:51I've been trying to make sense of something that's happened that I can't even remember.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55It's not there, that's what's so awful.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01I just have the forensic evidence that said somebody
0:26:01 > 0:26:05had sexual intercourse with me without me knowing. That's rape.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10I didn't say I was raped, I was told.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16I was, through forensics, told. That's pretty mind-blowing.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24Forensic examinations are only one part of St Mary's work.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28Last year, over 400 new clients were referred to the centre for counselling.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34Well, we bought these magazines for the three comfy rooms.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38However, before we put them in there, we need to check
0:26:38 > 0:26:41that there's nothing about rape or sexual assault.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Or anything, really, that's offensive.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50See, that will have to come out.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55It's not something you need to be reading
0:26:55 > 0:26:58while you attend here, really.
0:26:58 > 0:27:03The only thing is, "Kick-start to the summer slim down" is ruined!
0:27:03 > 0:27:05But never mind.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11Kellie is coming to St Mary's for her first counselling session.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15- St Mary's centre. - Hi, it's Kellie to see Jo.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18OK, will you come up to the second floor, please?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21It's now eight months since she was raped.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26It was a man that I'd known for quite a long time.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29I'm 31 now. I'd known him since I was about 14, 15.
0:27:31 > 0:27:36I'd been a drug addict, addicted to heroin since I was 13, 14.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40Got involved in escorting, prostitution,
0:27:40 > 0:27:42to make money to feed my drug habit.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45And that's how I got involved with him.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49So basically, he was a customer and I used to share drugs with him.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53And then this one night in February, I went up to his flat
0:27:53 > 0:27:57because I owed him a little bit of money and I was a bit late paying him back.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01There will be cases, perhaps, where the victim
0:28:01 > 0:28:04has had consensual intercourse in the past
0:28:04 > 0:28:07or where the victim is a prostitute.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09But that doesn't mean that they can't be raped.
0:28:11 > 0:28:12'You watch the victim's DVD
0:28:12 > 0:28:15'because that's going to be the key account',
0:28:15 > 0:28:17and just hear what she says.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20I just had a bit of money and I had, like, four things on me,
0:28:20 > 0:28:23I had two crack cocaines and two heroin, like, bags of heroin.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26I said, I can give you money and give you one of each.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30So he said, we'll go to mine, we'll do it at mine.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33There was no mention of doing business or anything like that.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35So we went back to his flat.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40And when we went in the flat, he locked the door.
0:28:40 > 0:28:44I'd gone into the front room and started smoking it.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49He's gone into the kitchen to go and start preparing to inject it.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54And he said, "You can sort me out and then you can go."
0:28:54 > 0:28:56And I said, "Shabs, I don't want to."
0:28:56 > 0:28:59When he said, "Sort me out", he meant do sex or something with him.
0:28:59 > 0:29:03And he said, "You better go in that front room, you better get undressed."
0:29:03 > 0:29:06And when I've... Because he was injecting the crack
0:29:06 > 0:29:09and he liked to have sex when he had the rush of the crack.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12And that's when I started crying and saying, "Please just let me go."
0:29:12 > 0:29:14And he said, "No, you are not going anywhere."
0:29:14 > 0:29:17He started talking, saying he was going to ram things up me
0:29:17 > 0:29:19and he was going to torture me.
0:29:23 > 0:29:25She was a sex worker. She used drugs.
0:29:25 > 0:29:29Both of those things, she was absolutely frank about.
0:29:29 > 0:29:33Obviously, had she not been honest about that in the first place, but it had come out,
0:29:33 > 0:29:36that would have cast some questions over her evidence.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39But she was entirely frank right from the beginning.
0:29:39 > 0:29:43He said, "Just help me get my dig and then do something with me
0:29:43 > 0:29:45"so I come and then I'll let you go."
0:29:48 > 0:29:53So eventually I managed to find a vein for him and injected him.
0:29:53 > 0:29:55Erm, then he's told me to...
0:29:56 > 0:29:59..like, to suck him off.
0:29:59 > 0:30:02And he's stood in the front room. So I started to do that.
0:30:02 > 0:30:04I was crying while I was doing it.
0:30:05 > 0:30:10On this occasion, she did not want to have intercourse and on her account,
0:30:10 > 0:30:14the defendant can have been in no doubt that she was not consenting.
0:30:14 > 0:30:18Then he told me to get on the couch and he got on top of me.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24And he was having sex with me
0:30:24 > 0:30:27and I was crying my eyes out and he shouted at me for crying
0:30:27 > 0:30:30and told me to stop crying and said,
0:30:30 > 0:30:32"You make me feel like I'm raping you."
0:30:32 > 0:30:35And I just thought to myself, "You bastard. You are.
0:30:35 > 0:30:38"I told you I don't want to do this, I told you I want to go
0:30:38 > 0:30:42"and you won't let me. You're making me do this before I go."
0:30:42 > 0:30:44And then after about ten minutes, he finished.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48And as soon as he finished I just got up,
0:30:48 > 0:30:51grabbed my clothes really, really quick and then he let me out.
0:30:54 > 0:30:57In some cases, a victim of rape will get on the phone
0:30:57 > 0:31:00to report the matter to the police straight away.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03But really, that in itself is quite unusual.
0:31:03 > 0:31:06It can take some time for a victim really to appreciate
0:31:06 > 0:31:09the impact of what's happened to them and we can't make any
0:31:09 > 0:31:13assumptions about anything that a victim will do.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15I sent him a text saying, you do realise
0:31:15 > 0:31:18when a girl is sobbing, crying her eyes out, begging to leave,
0:31:18 > 0:31:21not wanting to have sex with you, but having to do it anyway
0:31:21 > 0:31:24so that you'll let her leave, that is rape.
0:31:24 > 0:31:28And obviously that made him angry because I sent that text message,
0:31:28 > 0:31:30because then he were coming out looking for me
0:31:30 > 0:31:33every night on the street after that when I was going out working.
0:31:34 > 0:31:39I really did think that he was going to kill me, or something, I really did.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42Never been so frightened in my life.
0:31:42 > 0:31:45But it might sound crazy that I still kept going out there every night,
0:31:45 > 0:31:48but I had a drug habit. I had no choice.
0:31:48 > 0:31:53I still had to go out there and get money for my drugs.
0:31:54 > 0:31:57After an altercation on the street was seen by the police,
0:31:57 > 0:31:59Kellie told them what was happening.
0:31:59 > 0:32:02And that officer that night was actually really good.
0:32:02 > 0:32:06He was saying, if he did this a week ago but he's still harassing you every night,
0:32:06 > 0:32:10then he's not going to leave you alone. You need to do something about it.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13So would you class him as a punter?
0:32:13 > 0:32:16No, not really. I classed him more as a friend.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18More of a friend. OK. Right.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22But I suppose, yeah, I suppose he was in a way.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25He turned into punter, I suppose, yeah.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29It came across as a very honest account.
0:32:29 > 0:32:33Where you've got consent as the issue, the victim is the key to that
0:32:33 > 0:32:35and how they give their account.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38The police said I needed to get myself sorted out,
0:32:38 > 0:32:41it was to do with being a credible witness or something.
0:32:41 > 0:32:46But I'd already decided before then to get sorted out because I was too scared to go out there.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48And I thought, I need to change my life.
0:32:48 > 0:32:50So within a few weeks, I was in a hospital.
0:32:50 > 0:32:54I got clean off everything, come out and I've been clean ever since.
0:32:56 > 0:33:01After a six-day trial, 41-year-old Shahid Raza was found guilty
0:33:01 > 0:33:06of two counts of rape, common assault and possession of an offensive weapon.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09He was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years' imprisonment.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13Me and my mum were shopping in ASDA when we got the phone call.
0:33:13 > 0:33:17Me and my mum were just jumping around like lunatics in the middle of the supermarket.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20It were just such a relief that I was believed.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22I just didn't think I'd be taken seriously at all
0:33:22 > 0:33:26because of who I was before it happened.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33Obviously, I'm really glad I've got off the drugs.
0:33:33 > 0:33:36The only hard thing about being off drugs is that
0:33:36 > 0:33:39I don't have that thing any more to block my emotions.
0:33:39 > 0:33:42When I was on drugs, nothing bothered me.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44He just made me feel like I was nothing and worthless,
0:33:44 > 0:33:49and even though I should know deep down that I'm not,
0:33:49 > 0:33:53he's the one that did wrong, I've still carried on feeling that same way.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56OK, all right. How long had you known him?
0:33:56 > 0:34:00I'd known him for about maybe 12, 13 years.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06You looked like... You sort of looked to the floor then.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09I feel bad for him, even, because I'd known him for so long.
0:34:09 > 0:34:13People think I'm crazy when I say I feel bad for him.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16I have days where I think he deserves everything he's got.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19He's putting me through this now.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21Are you questioning yourself in a way,
0:34:21 > 0:34:24in that you've been in this relationship with him?
0:34:24 > 0:34:27I think, yeah, I do kind of blame myself a lot for what happened
0:34:27 > 0:34:30because of the lifestyle I led at the time.
0:34:30 > 0:34:33I think the research bears out that those individuals
0:34:33 > 0:34:36that are assaulted by somebody that they know can suffer
0:34:36 > 0:34:41more severe depression, for example, because actually, the clients
0:34:41 > 0:34:46essentially start to question their own way of judging people.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49You know, I made a judgement about them, I thought they were OK,
0:34:49 > 0:34:51and actually, they've gone on to rape me.
0:34:57 > 0:35:0217-year-old, and the assailant's her boyfriend.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04He locks the flat when he goes out,
0:35:04 > 0:35:07never uses condoms, always ejaculates,
0:35:07 > 0:35:08chokes, slaps, punches her.
0:35:08 > 0:35:12From what I've learnt over the years, the ones where it's
0:35:12 > 0:35:18a stranger assault and you've got that safe home, you've still got that.
0:35:18 > 0:35:20The rape is by the ex-partner.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22Ongoing sexual and domestic violence.
0:35:22 > 0:35:26The level of violence has become worse recently,
0:35:26 > 0:35:30escalating from slapping right the way up to strangling.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32Had no friends or family to stay with.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35Should be in a women's refuge.
0:35:35 > 0:35:41Where home is where the hurt is, then where is your place of safety?
0:35:41 > 0:35:43Where do you get your support?
0:35:43 > 0:35:48So that can make it incredibly difficult for them.
0:35:50 > 0:35:55Juliet has been unable to identify the stranger who was with her in the alley.
0:35:55 > 0:36:00However, the forensic examination at St Mary's has led to a breakthrough.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03From the swabs, we got a DNA hit that is
0:36:03 > 0:36:06the DNA from her swabs
0:36:06 > 0:36:09matches another person, that person being Yussuf.
0:36:09 > 0:36:14A 20-year-old male, Mustafa Yussuf, is brought in for questioning.
0:36:14 > 0:36:18The only link the police can show between him and Juliet is his DNA.
0:36:18 > 0:36:24He was interviewed initially after disclosure that he'd been
0:36:24 > 0:36:27arrested for rape, and he gave a no comment interview.
0:36:59 > 0:37:04He then came back and gave a further interview where he said he had
0:37:04 > 0:37:09met a female, had sexual intercourse, but it was consensual.
0:37:48 > 0:37:5131st December 2011.
0:37:51 > 0:37:55This is at 11:56, or 11:57, it's just clicked over to.
0:37:55 > 0:37:58And where the red arrow is is Mr Yussuf
0:37:58 > 0:38:01strolling down the street, meeting acquaintances.
0:38:01 > 0:38:06He said that he'd consumed a bottle of brandy before meeting Juliet.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08So his defence, if you like, is,
0:38:08 > 0:38:12"Well, I couldn't have known she didn't consent cos I was drunk,"
0:38:12 > 0:38:16but I would say the footage there negates that totally.
0:38:16 > 0:38:20You can see there, just in his hand is the bottle.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23Now, to me, that looked like a water bottle.
0:38:23 > 0:38:29It'll switch in a second and you'll see him going behind the shelving.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31He's not banging into anything.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34He's not using anything to support himself.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36He goes through that action where he goes down to the floor,
0:38:36 > 0:38:39almost squatting, and then manages to stand and walk round.
0:38:39 > 0:38:44He's not falling over, taking out any shelving or anything like that.
0:38:44 > 0:38:48Erm, he may well have had drink, but I would say, viewing that,
0:38:48 > 0:38:51you could never say that he was drunk.
0:38:51 > 0:38:57Obviously, you can never remain totally impartial.
0:38:59 > 0:39:03You have a feeling about a victim or a feeling about an offender
0:39:03 > 0:39:06and you work round that.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08But, in the case of Juliet,
0:39:08 > 0:39:11we're trying to build up two hours that she's missing.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13We know something's happened.
0:39:13 > 0:39:15The doctor's corroborated that,
0:39:15 > 0:39:20but when his defence statement comes along and says, "Well, I was drunk,"
0:39:20 > 0:39:24you say, "Well, hang on a minute, we've got footage of you here. This doesn't show you drunk."
0:39:26 > 0:39:29Mustafa Yussuf does not fit the description of the man Juliet
0:39:29 > 0:39:31remembers orally raping her.
0:39:34 > 0:39:38But the CPS decide that the forensic evidence combined with the CCTV
0:39:38 > 0:39:41is enough to charge him with vaginal rape.
0:39:41 > 0:39:47The man on trial is the man who vaginally raped me.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51I have no recollection of that, I didn't even know that had happened.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54He could, you know, knock on the door and be selling me double glazing.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56I wouldn't know who he is.
0:39:56 > 0:40:00He could sit next to me on the bus. I wouldn't know who he is.
0:40:00 > 0:40:04They got him from DNA, and that's been really, really difficult,
0:40:04 > 0:40:11because I don't have anybody to focus my rage at.
0:40:20 > 0:40:23I mean, unfortunately, people do make false reports.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25People make false reports of all sorts of crime.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28The priority, I think, we're going to need to get
0:40:28 > 0:40:32any forensic opportunities examined first.
0:40:32 > 0:40:36An arrest for any offence is extremely traumatic,
0:40:36 > 0:40:38particularly if you're a law-abiding citizen.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40To suddenly find yourself confined within four walls
0:40:40 > 0:40:44of a police station, having medically-trained staff
0:40:44 > 0:40:46examining your intimate parts...
0:40:46 > 0:40:50Well, ideally, I'd like that particular area examined.
0:40:50 > 0:40:55Glands, shaft, pubic hair, scissors and comb...
0:40:55 > 0:40:59It must have a huge impact on them, and we have to look after
0:40:59 > 0:41:02a rape suspect just as much as we look after a rape victim.
0:41:02 > 0:41:06Once you've been arrested for rape, you've got a stigma attached to you,
0:41:06 > 0:41:10and it's very difficult to clear your name, as such.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14I guess there may be some false allegations.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17I'm not aware of any particular cases that I was involved with.
0:41:17 > 0:41:20But we never would say, "I don't believe her or him",
0:41:20 > 0:41:22it's not like that.
0:41:22 > 0:41:26There is usually only two people that know what went on,
0:41:26 > 0:41:29and it's certainly not us.
0:41:29 > 0:41:33Good morning. It's Dr Yusuf from St Mary's Centre.
0:41:33 > 0:41:36OK, and what sort of time would suit you?
0:41:36 > 0:41:39Despite the centre being partly funded by the police,
0:41:39 > 0:41:42the services of St Mary's are available for people
0:41:42 > 0:41:44who don't want police involvement.
0:41:45 > 0:41:48Around one in six clients is a self-referral.
0:41:48 > 0:41:50I'm setting up for a self-referral examination.
0:41:50 > 0:41:53That's someone who wants to come and see us
0:41:53 > 0:41:56without the benefit of the police.
0:41:57 > 0:42:0116755 is a self-referral case.
0:42:03 > 0:42:05Perpetrator acquaintance.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08Went to see GP, advised to report to the police,
0:42:08 > 0:42:11but decided not to take it further at this point.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14There are all sorts of obstacles to people coming here.
0:42:14 > 0:42:18The fact that other people will find out, that the case may go to court,
0:42:18 > 0:42:22family will know, friends will know, people at work will know.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25So it's very important that they can come to us,
0:42:25 > 0:42:27knowing that the police don't have to be involved.
0:42:27 > 0:42:30They can still get the medical care that anybody would get,
0:42:30 > 0:42:35and that way, the evidence is preserved, and they still have
0:42:35 > 0:42:39that option at a later stage to ask the police to become involved.
0:42:41 > 0:42:45So this is where the self-referral samples come.
0:42:45 > 0:42:51Looking at our database, we've got something like 670 cases
0:42:51 > 0:42:53where we've got samples here.
0:42:55 > 0:42:56It's quite sad opening it up,
0:42:56 > 0:42:59because it's all these stories in a freezer.
0:43:02 > 0:43:03Jam-packed with stuff.
0:43:09 > 0:43:11I know I had a young...
0:43:11 > 0:43:12a young woman.
0:43:12 > 0:43:16Can't remember how old she was. Perhaps 16, 17.
0:43:16 > 0:43:18And she was saying it was her uncle.
0:43:19 > 0:43:22She decided not to go any further with it,
0:43:22 > 0:43:26because she didn't want to hold the responsibility
0:43:26 > 0:43:28of the impact on her cousins.
0:43:28 > 0:43:33And you can understand that, can't you? You know, it's their dad.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36You know, and if he's the breadwinner, it is a big impact.
0:43:40 > 0:43:43Take these through to the freezer room where they can be stored.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49You know, people always worry about false allegations, don't they?
0:43:49 > 0:43:51But why would you come here?
0:43:51 > 0:43:54To me, if you were making a false allegation,
0:43:54 > 0:43:56you'd be telling someone like the police.
0:43:56 > 0:43:59So if you come here and you haven't told the police,
0:43:59 > 0:44:01then it really makes you think
0:44:01 > 0:44:05that these are likely all to be true cases, aren't they?
0:44:05 > 0:44:09There's no reason that I can think of.
0:44:09 > 0:44:12And so this, it's incredibly sad, this, to me.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17Cos we all think we'd know what we would do, don't we?
0:44:17 > 0:44:20But life's rarely that simple, is it?
0:44:24 > 0:44:28It's now more than six months since Juliet rang the police
0:44:28 > 0:44:32to report that she believed she'd been sexually assaulted.
0:44:32 > 0:44:35In my head, I was going, "I'm not going to let this beat me,
0:44:35 > 0:44:37"I'm going to go to work."
0:44:37 > 0:44:39Yeah, right. I couldn't even get to the shops
0:44:39 > 0:44:42without freaking out and running home.
0:44:42 > 0:44:45Because you feel stained. You feel contaminated.
0:44:45 > 0:44:50You feel like everything you touch is going to be soiled
0:44:50 > 0:44:52with what has happened to you.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55And all the time you're doing anything,
0:44:55 > 0:44:58you're looking at it through that.
0:44:59 > 0:45:02He was there. That image of what he did to me.
0:45:04 > 0:45:07And it doesn't move. Wherever you look, it's there.
0:45:07 > 0:45:08It doesn't go.
0:45:10 > 0:45:11You close your eyes, the image is there.
0:45:11 > 0:45:14You look somewhere, it doesn't go.
0:45:17 > 0:45:20In three days' time, Juliet's case will go to court.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23Hi, it's Juliet. I've got an appointment with Gail.
0:45:23 > 0:45:24Come to the left on the top floor.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26Thank you.
0:45:26 > 0:45:28OK. I'm going to go in room one.
0:45:28 > 0:45:31The number of rape victims who've dropped out before facing trial
0:45:31 > 0:45:36means that now St Mary's have Independent Sexual Violence Advisors
0:45:36 > 0:45:38to help them through the whole process.
0:45:38 > 0:45:40Gail was the first one in the country.
0:45:41 > 0:45:43I think she's really scared.
0:45:43 > 0:45:47I think she's really scared and I think it's something that
0:45:47 > 0:45:49most people go through going to court,
0:45:49 > 0:45:51cos it's the fear of the unknown.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53How are you doing?
0:45:53 > 0:45:56I'm having a really bad anxiety day today.
0:45:56 > 0:45:57Are you? OK.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00'It's never going to be an easy process to have to, sort of,
0:46:00 > 0:46:02'talk about something that's happened to you
0:46:02 > 0:46:06'so traumatic to a court full of strangers...'
0:46:06 > 0:46:08We'll go in the room, and then I'll go and make you a drink.
0:46:08 > 0:46:10Let you calm down.
0:46:10 > 0:46:12'..because it's not something that people talk about
0:46:12 > 0:46:14'in day-to-day life.'
0:46:14 > 0:46:18That's difficult in itself, without knowing that someone's going to say,
0:46:18 > 0:46:20"Well, actually, it didn't happen like that, did it?"
0:46:22 > 0:46:27I'm scared about being criticised for going out on my own like I did.
0:46:29 > 0:46:33It isn't about, you know, you going out by yourself.
0:46:35 > 0:46:38You know, there's lots of women go out by themselves.
0:46:38 > 0:46:39Yes.
0:46:39 > 0:46:42All I can say to you is that the defence barrister is there
0:46:42 > 0:46:46to put to you what his client is saying has happened,
0:46:46 > 0:46:49which we know is going to be totally different to what you're saying.
0:46:49 > 0:46:52The thing you have to focus on more than anything
0:46:52 > 0:46:54is this case is going to trial.
0:46:54 > 0:46:56Lots of these cases don't get to trial
0:46:56 > 0:46:57because they haven't got enough evidence.
0:46:57 > 0:46:59Yeah, at least I've got that.
0:46:59 > 0:47:03Right? We go to court and if he pleads guilty it's a bonus.
0:47:03 > 0:47:06If he doesn't, you are prepared to go into court and give evidence.
0:47:06 > 0:47:09And the only thing I can say to you is all you can do
0:47:09 > 0:47:11is say what you remember.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13Yeah.
0:47:13 > 0:47:18I just cannot comprehend a not guilty verdict, and I...
0:47:20 > 0:47:22I don't know how I'll deal with that.
0:47:22 > 0:47:23See you on Monday.
0:47:23 > 0:47:25See you Monday. If you hear anything...
0:47:25 > 0:47:26I'll ring you, I promise.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28..text me or ring me or whatever.
0:47:28 > 0:47:30Probably the first three or four times I went to court,
0:47:30 > 0:47:33it was not guilty, and then I start to think, "Is it me?"
0:47:34 > 0:47:36No, I know it's not me, it's the system.
0:47:36 > 0:47:41You know, 12 people who have their own myths and stereotypes
0:47:41 > 0:47:44about any sort of crime is always going to be difficult.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50It isn't an easy process, and I admire anybody,
0:47:50 > 0:47:53I have to say, who would go down that process.
0:47:53 > 0:47:54I really do.
0:47:57 > 0:48:00Mustafa Yusuf goes on trial in Manchester.
0:48:01 > 0:48:04Juliet's DVD is shown on the second day,
0:48:04 > 0:48:06and she answers questions from behind a screen.
0:48:08 > 0:48:13It was probably the most challenging thing I've ever done in my life,
0:48:13 > 0:48:14the most scary.
0:48:14 > 0:48:18But not, by far, as frightening as what I thought it was going to be.
0:48:18 > 0:48:21That was on Tuesday, it's now Thursday.
0:48:21 > 0:48:23Now it's a waiting game.
0:48:25 > 0:48:29I have no part to play. The control's taken away from you, again.
0:48:30 > 0:48:35In rape, the control was taken away from you.
0:48:35 > 0:48:40I can only hope that the members of the jury, will realise that...
0:48:41 > 0:48:43..you know, I didn't do anything wrong.
0:48:43 > 0:48:45I didn't deserve what happened to me.
0:48:46 > 0:48:49And now all I can do is wait.
0:48:53 > 0:48:56At St Mary's, the cases never stop coming through the door.
0:49:02 > 0:49:0416588, she's 37.
0:49:04 > 0:49:06He?
0:49:09 > 0:49:10He's 37.
0:49:12 > 0:49:15Family are not aware of sexual assault.
0:49:15 > 0:49:19Please use discretion when ringing home, cos this is a home number.
0:49:19 > 0:49:22You know, if we take male rape,
0:49:22 > 0:49:24you've got to think about how difficult it might be
0:49:24 > 0:49:27for somebody to disclose that.
0:49:27 > 0:49:29Regardless of their sexuality,
0:49:29 > 0:49:32their sexuality will be called into question.
0:49:32 > 0:49:36And that doesn't feel fair, because we're calling into question
0:49:36 > 0:49:39the sexuality of the victim and not the perpetrator.
0:49:39 > 0:49:43A male approached him, asked him where to get cigarettes from,
0:49:43 > 0:49:44he followed him off the main road.
0:49:44 > 0:49:48Punched in the face. Grabbed in a headlock. Anal penetration.
0:49:48 > 0:49:53For a male, is it the ultimate violation, as it is for a female.
0:49:53 > 0:49:58But males being males, there's bravado attached to it,
0:49:58 > 0:50:00but also the embarrassment.
0:50:00 > 0:50:02Remembers going to have a wee down an alleyway,
0:50:02 > 0:50:05and it was here that he was grabbed by the back of the neck
0:50:05 > 0:50:07and something was inserted into his bottom.
0:50:07 > 0:50:10Personally, if I was a victim of a rape,
0:50:10 > 0:50:14I'm still not sure that I'd be able to come forward.
0:50:14 > 0:50:1815-year-old boy. He has specific learning difficulties.
0:50:18 > 0:50:22We do see a lot of the vulnerable in society here, don't we?
0:50:22 > 0:50:24Really, when you look at it.
0:50:24 > 0:50:29She's 14. In park with friends. Left friends to meet boy on benches.
0:50:29 > 0:50:32No previous sexual experience.
0:50:32 > 0:50:37Teenagers, especially the ones that are in care and have nobody.
0:50:37 > 0:50:39She lives in a children's home.
0:50:39 > 0:50:42She's known to social services.
0:50:42 > 0:50:45And then they end up here and there's nobody even to go home to.
0:50:45 > 0:50:46I know. That...
0:50:46 > 0:50:50And that is kind of our worst-case scenario here.
0:50:50 > 0:50:54You don't think in England today that we'd live with that, would you?
0:50:54 > 0:50:55No.
0:50:55 > 0:50:58I mean, they're unrelated episodes,
0:50:58 > 0:51:02but it's still a concern that she's 14
0:51:02 > 0:51:04and she's attended here three times.
0:51:04 > 0:51:11I think some cases do touch you, for whatever reason, more than others.
0:51:11 > 0:51:1515-year-old was picked up by three males in a car.
0:51:15 > 0:51:18Gang rape - that's really hard.
0:51:18 > 0:51:22To think that nobody could sort of stand back and say,
0:51:22 > 0:51:24"What are we doing? What's going on?"
0:51:24 > 0:51:27Sometimes you think you're always upset,
0:51:27 > 0:51:32but I can actually count of the times I've really cried.
0:51:32 > 0:51:34I remember the cases and I remember the names.
0:51:34 > 0:51:36And I'm not saying how the others aren't the same,
0:51:36 > 0:51:39I just think there's a little bit of a build-up,
0:51:39 > 0:51:41and then a certain person triggers...
0:51:41 > 0:51:44Would you like to pop onto that clever scale there?
0:51:44 > 0:51:47I don't think I'd ever cried at an examination,
0:51:47 > 0:51:50but I did just after one recently.
0:51:50 > 0:51:53And I was surprised at myself. But, you know, we're all human beings.
0:51:53 > 0:51:54We're all human beings.
0:51:54 > 0:51:57And whether you're a doctor or whoever, you know,
0:51:57 > 0:52:00something in life will touch you, won't it?
0:52:00 > 0:52:01- Well done.- You're doing really well.
0:52:03 > 0:52:04Well done.
0:52:13 > 0:52:15The mask goes on.
0:52:17 > 0:52:20I was thinking before, you know,
0:52:20 > 0:52:23what kind of my person am I going to be at the end of today?
0:52:24 > 0:52:27If it's a not guilty verdict...
0:52:29 > 0:52:30..does that mean it didn't happen?
0:52:33 > 0:52:36Generally, it's clear that the jury perhaps just haven't been sure
0:52:36 > 0:52:39to the necessary standard of proof,
0:52:39 > 0:52:41and it's not that the jury haven't believed the victim...
0:52:43 > 0:52:46..it's that they haven't been sure, beyond reasonable doubt,
0:52:46 > 0:52:47that the defendant is guilty.
0:52:47 > 0:52:52And this perception that somehow all these acquittals must mean
0:52:52 > 0:52:55they've been false allegations of rape just isn't right.
0:52:55 > 0:52:57That isn't what it means at all.
0:52:57 > 0:52:58Hi, Mum, it's me.
0:53:01 > 0:53:06Erm, nothing as yet. We're just walking down to the court now.
0:53:06 > 0:53:09The judge has done his summing up,
0:53:09 > 0:53:11but he hasn't sent them out yet to deliberate.
0:53:13 > 0:53:15I don't know what to expect.
0:53:15 > 0:53:17It only takes a couple of people to have doubts...
0:53:20 > 0:53:23..and that could be enough to throw it, so...
0:53:24 > 0:53:25I suppose, fingers crossed.
0:53:28 > 0:53:29The longest wait.
0:53:30 > 0:53:33I want him to be found guilty for Juliet.
0:53:33 > 0:53:34But, erm...
0:53:38 > 0:53:39..you can never tell.
0:53:43 > 0:53:45There's always going to be a possibility
0:53:45 > 0:53:46that he's found not guilty.
0:53:47 > 0:53:49Oh, for fuck's sake.
0:53:50 > 0:53:54With Juliet not wanting to see the defendant or his family,
0:53:54 > 0:53:56Gail has gone in to hear the verdict.
0:54:01 > 0:54:03This is mental.
0:54:13 > 0:54:17- Guilty.- Really? I thought you were going to say not.
0:54:17 > 0:54:19Unanimous.
0:54:26 > 0:54:29When you were saying, "Walk, walk," I was like, "Oh, my God!"
0:54:29 > 0:54:31- It's because his family were there, that's all.- Was that them?
0:54:31 > 0:54:33Yeah, that's why I asked you to walk out the way
0:54:33 > 0:54:35cos I didn't want them to see you.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40I feel sick.
0:54:43 > 0:54:44Hi, Mummy. It's me.
0:54:46 > 0:54:47Guilty. Unanimous.
0:54:52 > 0:54:55Yeah. We did it. We did it.
0:54:57 > 0:55:00Mustafa Yussuf has been found guilty of rape.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03His sentence is yet to be determined.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06You'd like to think it'll go into double figures, but...
0:55:07 > 0:55:09- ..you don't know.- I hope it does go to double figures.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13Bastard.
0:55:13 > 0:55:16You guys have been amazing, though. You've all been amazing.
0:55:22 > 0:55:25It's not the type of work that you can go home and say,
0:55:25 > 0:55:28"Oh, hello, how's your day been?"
0:55:28 > 0:55:31"Well, I've seen five clients, all of which were suicidal,
0:55:31 > 0:55:33"high risk, I've had to contact the GP.
0:55:33 > 0:55:35"Really worried about them."
0:55:35 > 0:55:39Or, "I've seen a homeless person that's been raped on a street
0:55:39 > 0:55:41"in Manchester whilst there were five people
0:55:41 > 0:55:42"on-looking that did nothing."
0:55:42 > 0:55:43You know, you could just...
0:55:43 > 0:55:46It's not... You can't take this work home.
0:55:47 > 0:55:50I know that you are extremely unlikely to be assaulted
0:55:50 > 0:55:53by a stranger walking home in the dark.
0:55:53 > 0:55:56I know that your chance of being assaulted by somebody you know
0:55:56 > 0:55:58is much, much higher.
0:55:58 > 0:56:02So, in some ways, I feel safer, and in other ways,
0:56:02 > 0:56:04I know that there is so much going on that we don't know about,
0:56:04 > 0:56:06cos we know here we only tip the iceberg
0:56:06 > 0:56:09of people who are experiencing sexual violence.
0:56:17 > 0:56:22You learn to live with it, but you can't let it be you.
0:56:22 > 0:56:27And that's what I've really learnt. My identity isn't, "I got raped".
0:56:27 > 0:56:29It's not.
0:56:29 > 0:56:32I am Juliet, but I'm forever altered.
0:56:35 > 0:56:37One event, and your life isn't ordinary any more.
0:56:39 > 0:56:42I don't know, maybe you become extraordinary cos you survived it.
0:56:44 > 0:56:45That would be a good way to put it.
0:56:47 > 0:56:52And maybe that's how I'm managing to cope now.
0:56:53 > 0:56:56That's the only way I can put it, really.
0:56:56 > 0:57:00SATNAV: 'Turn right, then turn right.'
0:57:00 > 0:57:03Ten months after the rape, Mustafa Yussuf was sentenced
0:57:03 > 0:57:06to seven years and nine months' imprisonment.
0:57:06 > 0:57:09He'll spend the rest of his life on the sex offenders' register.
0:57:09 > 0:57:10SATNAV: 'Turn left.'
0:57:10 > 0:57:12The shoes Juliet was wearing on New Year's Eve
0:57:12 > 0:57:15were taken during the investigation.
0:57:15 > 0:57:16Now she can get them back.
0:57:16 > 0:57:19What was weird was the reaction I got...
0:57:21 > 0:57:24..from the police, when I said, "Well, I want them back."
0:57:24 > 0:57:27And I said, "Well, they're my beautiful, lovely, expensive shoes,
0:57:27 > 0:57:30"and my shoes didn't rape me. I want them back."
0:57:33 > 0:57:35One shoe in each bag?
0:57:35 > 0:57:37One shoe in each bag. That's the way they get stored.
0:57:37 > 0:57:38Is it? Oh, OK.
0:57:40 > 0:57:43Hee-hee! Got me shoes!
0:57:45 > 0:57:48It is a really weird feeling. Really weird.
0:57:50 > 0:57:51Fact.
0:57:54 > 0:57:59'What we're trying to do is prevent long-term problems developing.'
0:57:59 > 0:58:01Oh, yeah.
0:58:01 > 0:58:04Now I'm happy. Now I'm a happy girl.
0:58:07 > 0:58:09Who'd have thought?!
0:58:10 > 0:58:15And that's something that's really positive about working here,
0:58:15 > 0:58:19is the human being's ability to recover from something so negative.
0:58:23 > 0:58:24PHONE RINGS
0:58:24 > 0:58:27St Mary's Centre, Jo speaking.
0:58:27 > 0:58:29Oh, right, OK.
0:58:29 > 0:58:30Months ago or years ago?
0:58:32 > 0:58:35Could you tell me who the perpetrator was?
0:58:35 > 0:58:36OK.
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