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Woman, 22, raped in Wycombe centre

2:00pm Monday 18th August 2008

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By Oliver Evans »

A 22-year-old woman was raped in the early hours in Frogmoor, High Wycombe, police said.

The woman was attacked on Sunday August 10 between 2am and 2.30am, police said today.

She was walking along Temple End.

Det Con Caroline Jones, who is leading the investigation, said: "I urge anyone who was in the area at the time who saw something suspicious, or anyone who knows who committed the crime to contact me at High Wycombe police station on 0845 8 505 505."

Anyone who wishes to remain anonymous can contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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kazza, high wycombe says...
2:18pm Mon 18 Aug 08

Simply horrifying experience for this young lady. Although why she would want to be in Temple end on her on at that time of the morning is beyond me. Doesn't in any way excuse the behaviour of this animal. I hope she recovers as well as she ever can . x

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stewj, Loudwater says...
2:21pm Mon 18 Aug 08

If they find hime they should shot him !

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BRoman, Terriers says...
2:33pm Mon 18 Aug 08

What an awful thing to happen. It's frightenening when something like this happens so close to home.

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BRoman, Terriers says...
2:34pm Mon 18 Aug 08

Sorry - frightening.

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Elmo, High Wycombe says...
2:44pm Mon 18 Aug 08

There is a lot of student accommodation out towards Hughenden road and Temple End seems to be an ideal pedestrian rat-run for late night revellers. So I can see why a young lady may be down that way on her own at stupid o'clock in the morning.

I have witnessed many foolish acts by youngsters in that area, vandalism, attacks on taxi drivers, intimidation of the residents etc. at all hours of the night (I enjoy a late night drink myself). I can only see this getting worse if they ever build the new halls of residence further along Hughenden road. If anyone has ever seen the queue to get in the Litten Tree at around 11 o'clock on the Tuesday student night, then you'll know how many yoofs are about in the evening.

I hope the authorities will take into account the impact of increased revellers in the area and look to improve safety for everyone.

Get some coppers on the streets.

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BT1, Somewhere secret says...
3:36pm Mon 18 Aug 08

My heart goes out to the young woman concerned. I hope she finds the courage and gets the support to put put this horrible event behind her.

Echoing BRomans comment, its never nice to think of this sort of thing 'happening on your doorstep' so to speak.

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llcherri, Wycombe says...
3:51pm Mon 18 Aug 08

As we have tons of CCTV in the town centre he should be on there. Why isn’t there any detail of the perpetrator’s description? Doesn’t leave much to go on does it. But hopefully they have had a record and their DNA have been taken.

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smokey, high wycombe says...
5:49pm Mon 18 Aug 08

Elmo wrote:
There is a lot of student accommodation out towards Hughenden road and Temple End seems to be an ideal pedestrian rat-run for late night revellers. So I can see why a young lady may be down that way on her own at stupid o'clock in the morning. I have witnessed many foolish acts by youngsters in that area, vandalism, attacks on taxi drivers, intimidation of the residents etc. at all hours of the night (I enjoy a late night drink myself). I can only see this getting worse if they ever build the new halls of residence further along Hughenden road. If anyone has ever seen the queue to get in the Litten Tree at around 11 o'clock on the Tuesday student night, then you'll know how many yoofs are about in the evening. I hope the authorities will take into account the impact of increased revellers in the area and look to improve safety for everyone. Get some coppers on the streets.
good post Elmo. As the mother of 2 young women - both of whom go out and socialise in Wycombe - this is a real worry. I do hope this poor girl is okay and yes - where the hell are the police?

Too busy harassing motorists by the sound of it.

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slacker, Flackwell says...
8:37pm Mon 18 Aug 08

The police cannot be everywhere at once. Are people suggesting that every person not at home in bed should have a police chaperone?

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erm, ermsville says...
9:55pm Mon 18 Aug 08

the police were probably tied up dealing with the irresponsible drunks, the clubs take up loads of police resources.

I wish the girl all the best and hope wycombe CID soon catch the offender

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slacker, Flackwell says...
11:18pm Mon 18 Aug 08

Isn't this the the second or third attack in as many weeks?

A description of the offender would help, simply saying if anyone saw anything suspicious is not good enough.

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mumof4, High Wycombe says...
11:52pm Mon 18 Aug 08

slacker wrote:
Isn't this the the second or third attack in as many weeks? A description of the offender would help, simply saying if anyone saw anything suspicious is not good enough.
I thought exactly the same when I read the article. There is usually a description of some kind but here there is nothing to go on.

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BRoman, Terriers says...
11:54pm Mon 18 Aug 08

Maybe they don't have a description which is why they are hoping someone heard or saw something. Let's just hope someone knows who it is and shops them.

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mee, Wycombe says...
11:59pm Mon 18 Aug 08

Made my blood run cold when I read this.

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BRoman, Terriers says...
12:03am Tue 19 Aug 08

mee wrote:
Made my blood run cold when I read this.
I know what you mean. Like I said - too close to home.

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Elmo, High Wycombe says...
10:35am Tue 19 Aug 08

I'm not sure what the actual method of policing the town centre in the evening, but it appears to be to wait round the corner in the riot van so to be able to arrive mob handed if anything kicks off. This would not deter the quieter, individual criminal act just round the corner. What we could do with is random foot patrols in and around the town.

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littlemiss, Wycombe says...
1:06pm Tue 19 Aug 08

This is awful, the poor woman involved. I have walked along that stretch by myself many times to get home from a late night out. It's quite dark along there, and gets even darker the nearer you get to Hughenden Park thanks to the lights having been switched off. There's CCTV camera's just before Temple end by the vets I believe, so I would be interested to know exactly where this happened. Either way it is a horrific and disgusting act, I hope whoever did this is caught and is then castrated. I'm not being funny, but with attacks like this going on, it's hard to know what you should do. If you carry a weapon you will get nicked, if you don't carry one and something like this happens, what do you do? Was she hit over the head before being raped or what?

The police can't be everywhere at once no, but I bet there were about 5 or so of them AND a riot van in Frogmoor as they always are that time of night at the weekend.

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Red Fred, in his red shed says...
6:00pm Tue 19 Aug 08

If you carry a weapon you will get nicked


Only if there are enough real police out there.

Yeah you cant have them everywhere, but surely they can take some out of the daytime speed vans for proper policing to try and stop this type of despicable crime.

Isnt that what most of us want?

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kazza, high wycombe says...
6:24pm Tue 19 Aug 08

yes it is!

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