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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 urine samples taken within hours of the incident.