Prosecutors slammed again after another sex case collapses

Islington

  Police and prosecutors were slammed again when another sex assault case collapsed because of failures to disclose crucial CCTV evidence. Mackele Tekleliaimanot, 29, spent a year in custody awaiting trial for the attempted rape of a young woman who claimed she was attacked after she got lost on her way home from a night out. But footage from CCTV and police body cameras which repeatedly contradicted her account was only disclosed to the defence after barristers reviewed the evidence…

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