January 14, 2002: A young woman is gang-raped in Coventry. What kind of monsters would do such a thing to any woman, much less one who was four months pregnant? The following before and after reports tell the story:
Top: the story of the gang-rape of a pregnant woman makes the front page of the local rag. It is still big news the following day. This is the Coventry Evening Telegraph CITY FINAL. Below: the attack causes such alarm that council chiefs are said to be stepping up security in the area:
Below: this article appeared on page 2 of the Rugby Evening Telegraph, January 28, 2002. After an intensive investigation, the non-victim finally fesses up and has been cautioned, a remarkably light sanction in view of all the aggravation she caused.
A side note here, click this link for a brief explanation of variant newspapers. (This is a screengrab from the beginning of the microfilm).
Finally, a fuller report updated more than a decade later (probably something trivial) from the old Coventry Telegraph website. The conversion of quote marks to question marks is nothing to do with me!
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