Why did police keep quiet on sex attack by Syrian UK refugees? Girl, 14, was assaulted by gang but it was kept off the crime list covered by BBC Newsnight team...
- Gang of Syrians allegedly assaulted two 14-year-old girls in Newcastle
- Three young men have appeared in court and a teenager, 17, was charged
- But even after that Northumbria Police did not announce case to the public
Police
were last night accused of burying allegations that a gang of Syrians
sexually assaulted two teenage girls in a Newcastle park.
Three
young men and a teenage boy, at least one of them a refugee, were
arrested last month over claims two 14-year-olds had been attacked in
the centre of the city.
But
even after the suspects were charged and appeared in court, Northumbria
Police – which claims to have made sexual violence a top priority – did
not announce the case to the public or press. Even the local MP only
heard about it last week.
Police were last night accused of
burying allegations that a gang of Syrians sexually assaulted two
teenage girls in a Newcastle park
Last
night, it also emerged that the force published more than 100 incidents
and public appeals, including those on sexual assaults and indecent
exposures, on its website in the same month the alleged attacks took
place – but not the case allegedly involving the Syrians.
Other crimes included the theft of 19 prawn pots from a harbor wall and a car being scratched.
Details
on the alleged attacks emerged on Friday in a report by the BBC, which
had been following the progress of the refugee defendant’s family since
they arrived in Britain last year under the Government’s high-profile
scheme to resettle vulnerable Syrians.
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