Back in early 2005, my friend had recently finished her holistic studies at a nearby college and had started renting a room in a local beauty treatment salon ran by two young women who my friend had met during her studies.

As the months went by, as she gained a good reputation as an effective, caring, sensitive therapist, she began to feel somewhat unease about the running of the business. Some of the practices by one of these partners she felt were somewhat dubious, and she was somewhat unsure if she would remain at the salon. Eventually she decided to give it some more time before coming to a decision.

In the December of 2005 and the business partners had organised a Christmas meal at a local restaurant. My friend was reluctant to go, but under my persuasion of forming good relationships with your co-workers, she relented, got her self-ready and I dropped her off at the salon to meet up with the two owners and several of the young employee's.

During the course of the evening, my friend was spiked with a date rape drug, took back to one of the business partner's homes and was gang raped by the business partner's husband and several other men, whist being restraint by one of the female owners. Later they phone me to tell me that my friend and had too much to drink and needed collecting.

When I collected her she was unable to actual speak coherently, unable to construct a sentence. I got her into the car, brought her home, and put her to bed.

The next day she never moved from her bed and all over the Christmas celebrations was unable to function.

It was around Boxing Day that she first mentioned something had occurred. She started to get flashback memories of the evening of the meal, and over the next two weeks, she started to recall more and more details.

She reported the crime to the police, and two detectives arrived quickly. My friend and I made video statements, and a few days later the police raided both the business premises and the home of the owner.

When the police presented the case to the Crown Prosecution Service, there was insufficient evidence to bring a successful prosecution due to several factors. For example, the amount of time that had elapsed before my friend had made her statement, the discrepancies between dates of our recollection of the collection of evidential and those of the police. This meant any forensic evidence that could have been recoverable was apparently lost and that my friend had reported that several

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