DSD & Anor v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis

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