‘Sheer incompetence’ by police meant that texts about an alleged rape victim’s fantasies of violent and casual sex were kept secret and an innocent student was put on trial after two years on bail, a prosecutor revealed today.
Barrister Jerry Hayes claims the detective in charge told him sexual messages sent by the woman to Liam Allan and her friends were ‘too personal’ to share.
But in fact they ‘blew the case out of the window’ and police had failed to even look at them because of ‘sheer incompetence’, he said.