Woman’s sex assault police report was published in tabloids

After making the difficult decision to report a celebrity who she said sexually harassed her, Jenny Evans discovered confidential details printed verbatim in a national newspaper.

Then he was only 19 and strained his brain; Could a friend betray him? Was there spying being done?

Jenny unwittingly found herself at the center of a corruption scandal that would eventually bring down some of the most powerful actors in the UK press and police.

Instead of hiding, Jenny channeled her anger into training to become a journalist who would uncover the truth for herself.

Warning: Contains disturbing details of sexual violence

Jenny grew up in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire and discovered acting at free community drama classes.

He was recruited at the age of 18 Twin Town and soon after, in 1997, she went on a night out with the production crew in London.

Jenny, now in her 40s, said: Asya Fouks podcast for Non-Ordinary Lives There was a celebrity unrelated to the movie who he found himself with one of his friends at the end of the night.

He asked to borrow his phone to call a taxi, but they refused.

“He put his hand on my chest and pushed me so I lost my balance. Then he and his friend attacked and then the sexual assault happened,” she said.

When the men got bored of him, the famous man’s friend called him a taxi.

When the taxi pulled up, Jenny was gagging and shaking, and the driver, named Ken, kept telling me, “I think you’ve been raped. Let me take you to the police station.” And I couldn’t talk.

At that point he was “too shocked and scared” to go to the police and report it; This feeling continued for a long time.

Jenny wrote a letter to her friend at the time about it and told her sister and mother about it.

He withdrew from life and only decided to “live my life again” when his 24-year-old brother died when he was 23.

He studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and one night, while dancing with friends in a student bar, a friend came in and dropped the latest edition of The Sun on the table.

It was reported that the famous man who sexually assaulted her was arrested after other women made similar allegations.

He said: “It was the first time I realized that I hadn’t put myself in a difficult situation and that this man and his friend were capable of serial violence.”

This left her feeling “a moral obligation to report him”, but said it was her experience and that it was normal for most survivors to “not want to report or never want to talk” about their own experiences.

She was interviewed twice by police and four days later, while she was with her tabloid-reading boyfriend, he looked at her and said: “I didn’t know there were two of them.”

He knew something was up, but she had shielded him from the intricate details of the attack.

Jenny’s name was not released, but the confidential report she filed at the police station a few days ago was there in black and white.

“It was terrible,” Jenny said.

He tried to find out who might have sold the story to the newspaper, but no one knew that level of detail.

Jenny told this to the case detective, who said he would get back to her, but he never did: “I was so young and naive that I didn’t push him about it.”

Jenny became “very paranoid”, searching her house for recording devices, keeping the curtains closed and checking the phones of friends and family to see if they were talking to journalists.

Police later told her there was enough evidence to charge the famous man with two counts of sexual assault, but none of the other women met the threshold for charges.

At that time, the famous man said that those who accused him were “fabricated, ‘they only want money, they only want fame'”.

Just before the hearing, Jenny’s friend gave her the letter Jenny had written after the sexual assault, thinking it was proof that she was not “jumping on a bandwagon.”

However, because Jenny described in detail multiple incidents of sexual violence that had occurred to her, the police felt this was damaging her reputation.

He said it’s difficult to win any sexual assault case, but if it happens more than once, defense attorneys can make it “like you asked for it” or “like you made it all up.”

Since he did not want to be cross-examined in the letter, the charges were dropped.

The now-defunct News of the World newspaper later published an article containing confidential details of the case’s breakup, and Jenny said her fear turned to anger.

So he took it upon himself to train as a journalist to find out how.

He tasks Jenny with finding out the truth from reporters past and present about dodgy newsgathering practices and finding people whose phones were hacked by Mulcaire.

He found his name in his diaries, but his phone number was wrong; so he knew his story wasn’t leaked that way.

World News Closed in 2011 after it was found to have infiltrated the phones of crime victims, celebrities and politicians.

“I felt so emotional,” Jenny said.

“They somehow bullied a nation and I felt a huge sense of relief.”

Due to corruption within the Met Police, Jenny’s case was never solved, but after hiring a lawyer she received an apology and “tens of thousands of pounds” in settlement.

The Met Police have been contacted for comment.

Now she wants people, especially young women, to know that “when you feel disenfranchised and powerless, there is real power in learning to ask questions.”

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