Like many others I initially gave credence to the story of the alleged gang rape in Epsom. After all it’s not as if sexual attacks by migrants is unusual these days in Britain and gang rape is sadly one of those crimes that have often quite rightly been associated with this group.
But as time went on I began to wonder. When the police came out with a statement intended to placate an increasingly restless public that contained a very unusual form of words I started to doubt the veracity of all or some of the initial story. I’ve seen lots of police media statements in my time and I know that police forces often have to use careful wordcraft in order to not put themselves in future legal jeopardy or prejudice any trial that they are investigating. This is why the police’s phrase in their statement that the have not found any evidence for the crime ‘as reported’ caught my eye. It’s not a usual sort of statement, it’s one that they use when they can’t find evidence for a complaint but they are keeping the case open.
On April 19th I published an article about the progress of the case and considered reasons why it might be difficult for the police to obtain corroborating evidence for the complaint such as CCTV being unavailable or time consuming to view. This article also posed the possibility that this complaint might be completely baseless. I said:
“It could also be the case that the complainant has been less than honest with the police with regarding the claim and this is why no corroborating evidence for the attack has yet been found. Whilst said to be rare, these cases do happen. It’s silly to believe that all claims made to the police, not just about this case but about anything, are founded on a bedrock of solid truth. Not all men, women or even children for that matter tell the unvarnished truth when they make a complaint. A false complaint about anything, not just a crime such as that which has been alleged to have occurred in Epsom, could be made for a whole gamut of reasons. These reasons could range from a person voluntarily putting themselves in a situation that they later regretted, trying to hide questionable behaviour from a partner or a family, or being a person whether that be an adult or a child, who for reasons of mental illness or to gain an advantage or revenge against someone or just by being generally dishonest and self serving in character, is willing to be untrue even if the cost to others who may be innocent might be high.”
Well it seems that I may well have been correct. It appears that there has been no gang rape. What appears to have happened is a young woman sustained some sort of accidental head injury which lead to the confused and untrue report of a sexual offence.
GB News said:
“Surrey Police will close an investigation into reports of a rape outside a church in Epsom that led to widespread public disorder.
A spokesman for the force confirmed that “no sexual offence occurred”.
A spokesman from the force said: “What has become clear is that a woman in her 20s during a night out in Epsom, sustained an accidental head injury prior to making a confused report.” “
These things happen. Someone falls over, possibly inebriated then wakes up confused and mixes false memories up with reality. Whether this was an honest mistake by the complainant or whether the false complaint was made maliciously might be a future matter for the courts.
This case and the police’s initial, understandable, cageyness with the public was a major factor in the whipping up of a mob made up of both locals and outsiders that demonstrated quite vigorously outside of the police station and at various places where the mob believed that Dinghy Invaders were being housed, including I believe accommodation for vulnerable adults.
Yet again I have been proven correct when I’ve often said that ‘King Mob’ makes for a terrible and unjust leader. I think that the various influencers who helped to stir up this mob need to take a long hard look at themselves and their part in all this.
But it’s not just the Mob that are at fault here. There might not have been a mob had the police not lost so much public trust by their poor handling of cases similar to this. It’s difficult to trust police when there’s been so many cases where the police have failed the public for example in Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford and many other places. It’s difficult to trust police forces when there have been so many examples of ‘two tier’ policing ranging from the regular examples of that which we see with the ‘Palestine’ hate marches that are treated with kid gloves, through to police attempts to silence those who bring to light examples of migrant related crime. The police only have themselves to blame for the public not believing them when they say something.
This case has turned out to be a nothingburger but that doesn’t mean other similar cases are also false, the problem is without a trial it’s impossible to know which ones are true allegations and which ones are not. We do have a migrant crime problem and in particular a migrant sex crime problem but the case in Epsom was not one of them.
If this case teaches us anything it’s that the atmosphere among the public at the moment is febrile approaching boiling point. The anger about migrant crime and the growing distrust of police is now so high that anything, including a false or mistaken report of a crime can kick things off. This should worry us all as this is not a good position for a nation to be in.
Links
GB News report on the dropping of this case
Original piece on this case questioning the length of time of the investigation by me
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/04/19/curiouser-and-curiouser-some-thought-on-the-epsom-story/
Also at https://peakd.com/britain/@mrfahrenheit211/curiouser-and-curiouser-some-thought-on-the-epsom-story
And now hopefully prosecuted for making up this crap and causing so many problems. Should attract a stiff sentence as a deterrent for future liars and chancers. For once I believe the police.
I’m with you on this. False claims like this make life more difficult for those with genuine complaints about assault. Like you I agree that this is a ‘for once I believe the police’ situation. However the problem was compounded by very poor police communications with the public and the now endemic lack of trust that the police have from the population.