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Sexual assault in January 2019

The police have issued CCTV images of someone they would like to speak to in relation to the assault of a teenage girl on a Wandsworth bus. Why has it taken so long for the public appeal for information to be made - this happened 4 months ago !!!

Janis Humberstone ● 2742d7 Comments

My thought exactly when I read it on the website.

Elizabeth Balsom ● 2742d

I have heard, but cannot be sure, that the bus company process to retrieve these images and pass them to the Met could take 2 months. This was the excuse when asked for CCTV to identify a person of interest in a theft from a passenger on a bus.

Tony Howells ● 2741d

How ridiculous!  and lazy!!

Bunny Payne ● 2741d

That's appalling. Surely the bus company should be made by law to hand over CTV footage  as soon as it is requested? Otherwise why bother to have cameras installed in the first place.

Lucille Grant ● 2741d

The same happened when the police were looking for the runner that pushed a pedestrian in front of a bus on Putney Bridge. I was surprised when the report stated it had happened months before and the footage had only just been released.

Matt Price ● 2738d

Is it because the pictures need to be enhanced?  Or that there is noone to take them off the camera?  I think it is easier to have cameras installed than to make use of any pictures there.  I know when I tried to take some off for a neighbour at work the IT person was on holiday...We need to share info more!

Philippa Bond ● 2730d

Following on from this serious sexual assault, reported months after it happened, we now see a front-page photo of a male who attempted to kidnap a nine year-old girl on 2nd November last year.  We are possibly looking at a dangerous paedophile who grabbed this poor young girl by her hair.Yet again, we have not been informed about a dangerous man on the loose in early November 2018 until the end of May 2019?  What is the excuse for the delayed reporting this time?

Chantal Blake-Milton ● 2722d