DSD & Anor v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
2014
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION
UK
CORAM
- MR JUSTICE GREEN
Areas of Law
- Human Rights Law
- Tort Law
2014
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION
UK
CORAM
AI Generated Summary
The case involved DSD and NBV, who claimed damages against the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) for failing to effectively investigate rapes and sexual assaults by John Worboys between 2002-2008. The court found MPS liable for breaches of the Human Rights Act 1998 and awarded £22,250 to DSD and £19,000 to NBV. The awarded sums considered the post-assault psychological harm and the need for future treatment. The court applied principles from the European Court of Human Rights and emphasized the need for damages to provide 'just satisfaction' to victims.
Judgment
INDEX TO JUDGMENT Paragraph(s)
A. INTRODUCTION
(1) The Claims 1-5
(2) The sexual assaults 6-7
(3) The recognition by the MPS of the particular
problems relating to the investigation of drug facilitated
sexual assault (“DFSA”) 8-9
(4) Conduct of the trial by the legal teams 10-11
(5) Outcome of the trial: The Defendant is liable to the
Claimants 12-13
(6) The qualified nature of the duty on the police 14
B. FACTS
(1) The modus operandi of a serial rapist 15-19
(2) The assault on DSD and the police investigation 20-39
(3) The period between 2003-2008 40
(4) The position of NBV 41-58
(5) Psychiatric evidence: DSD 59-65
(6) Psychiatric evidence: NBV 66-75
(7) The identification, arrest and prosecution of Worboys 76-87
(8) MPS Policy for the investigation of rape
and serious sexual assaults: Special Notice 11/02 88-112
(9) The 2005 update to the Standard Operating
Procedure (“SOP”) 113
(10) The 2010 SOP update 114-115
(11) MPS Operation Danzey Final Report (2 nd October 2008) 116-124
(12) The reports into the complaints of DSD and
NBV by the Independent Police Complaints
Commission (“IPCC”) (August and October 2009) 125-129
(13) IPCC: Commissioner’s Report (January 2010) 130-136
(14) MPS Report: Learning the lessons (15 th October 2010) 137
C. THE LAW
(1) Introduction 138
(2) Analysis of authorities: The duty on police to
investigate torture and degrading and inhuman
treatment committed by third parties where
the police are not complicit in the perpetration
of the treatment :- 139-210
(i) Osman v United Kingdom 29 EHRR 245
(28 th October 1998) 142-145
(ii) Z & Others v United Kingdom 34 EHRR 3
(10 th May 2001) 146-149
(iii) Edwards v United Kingdom 35 EHRR
(14 th March 2002) 150-153
(iv) Menson v United Kingdom [2003] EHRR
CD220 (6 th May 2003) 154-160
(v) MC v Bulgaria (2005) 40 EHRR 20
(4 th December 2003) 161-169
(vi) Szula v United Kingdom (2007) 44 EHRR
SE19 170-176
(vii) Secic v Croatia (2009) 49 EHRR 408
(31 st May 2007) 177-180
(viii) Ali and Ayse Duran v Turkey Application
No 42942/08 (8 th April 2008) 181
(ix) Beganovic v Croatia Application No
46423/06 (25 th September 2009) 182-185
(x) Denis Vasilyev v Russia App No 32704/04
(17 th December 2009) 186-190
(xi) Milanovic v Serbia App No 44614/07
(14 th December 2010) 191-194
(xii) CAS & CS v Romania App No 26692/05
(20 th March 2012) 195-199
(xiii) Koky & Others v Slovakia App. No. 13624/03
(12 th June 2012) 200-203
(xiv) Sizar