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9:48am Sunday 7th September 2008

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A Bicester teenager has withdrawn the allegation that she was raped.

The 16-year-old girl had claimed she was attacked in a footpath off of Pingle Drive, near Bicester Village, at 3.30pm on Friday.

She withdrew the allegation during an interview with police yesterday afternoon, a Thames Valley Police spokesman said.


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Mike, East Oxford says...
10:06am Sun 7 Sep 08

Very sad that comments were posted, which pre-judged the miscreants; who may have been to blame.

No one should assume involvement; until all the facts and evidence are known.

Last time I looked, this was Great Britain. Innocent until proved guilty in a Court of Law!

Unlike other Cultures/Countries.

Andy, Oxfordshire says...
10:15am Sun 7 Sep 08

Will this teenager now be charged with wasting police time and making false accusations??

anon, says...
10:30am Sun 7 Sep 08

Innocent till proven guilty .... your joking the Oxford Mail , like all press are more than happy to name men accused of rape before being found guilty or innocent, this is the most easiest claim any female can make against a man, knowing they will arrested , named in the press and they dont even need evidence, rape cases have gone to court soley based on one persons word against another.

it is also a sad fact that MOST women who make up the allegation will never be charged or details held on the police computer however any man arrested and questioned over an allegation will have his fingerprints photo and DNA taken by the police, held on their computer system and the arrest listed on their police record even if they are innocent.
INNOCENT TILL PROVEN GUILTY ummm yer right

ON REMAND, bullingdon says...
10:42am Sun 7 Sep 08

Mike wrote:
Very sad that comments were posted, which pre-judged the miscreants; who may have been to blame. No one should assume involvement; until all the facts and evidence are known. Last time I looked, this was Great Britain. Innocent until proved guilty in a Court of Law! Unlike other Cultures/Countries.
Innocent until proved guilty: IF THIS WAS THE CASE THERE WOULD BE NO SUCH THING AS REMAND WOULD THERE YOU DUMMER

YOUR DUMB, Bicester says...
10:46am Sun 7 Sep 08

Andy wrote:
Will this teenager now be charged with wasting police time and making false accusations??
You need to look at the bigger picture, she might have got scared and not wanted to push it any further, she might of been forced to drop it by the guy who raped her!
You just dont know and i should think you will never know if its down to the oxford mail.

Nick, says...
10:51am Sun 7 Sep 08

Andy wrote:
Will this teenager now be charged with wasting police time and making false accusations??
Well I guess that all depends as to whether or not she was indeed crying wolf or just to freightened to proceed,as has been the case in the past with others victims of rape.

Harsh, Oxford says...
10:55am Sun 7 Sep 08

I think things like this should not be available to the press until a conviction has been made, mud sticks and once a person has been accused of this sort of thing it doesn't matter if proven innoccent the sigma will always be there.

ricky, oxon says...
10:56am Sun 7 Sep 08

good on poppy,she know the irish,anon earlier, know it wouldnt be a gypsy.scare mongles.

gypsy lad, redbridge says...
11:15am Sun 7 Sep 08

ricky wrote:
good on poppy,she know the irish,anon earlier, know it wouldnt be a gypsy.scare mongles.
just think some off the girls wish they could have one?tough boys.

ricky, oxon says...
11:31am Sun 7 Sep 08

its ok 4 bloxum too cry rape.live with them ,pikes,gypos,trav,th
ere no sex attackers.dont want no hand outs..do there thing ..lived with them ,plenty fighting.. no sex attacks..13 years!

john conners, oak vally site frillford says...
11:41am Sun 7 Sep 08

gypsy lad wrote:
ricky wrote: good on poppy,she know the irish,anon earlier, know it wouldnt be a gypsy.scare mongles.
just think some off the girls wish they could have one?tough boys.
Shut up mush, oh doordy you tinker

mr downs, challow says...
11:46am Sun 7 Sep 08

ricky wrote:
its ok 4 bloxum too cry rape.live with them ,pikes,gypos,trav,th ere no sex attackers.dont want no hand outs..do there thing ..lived with them ,plenty fighting.. no sex attacks..13 years!
We dont want hand outs because we steal for a living and get our dags to fight for big money also, we dont rape as we are more than able and willing to sleep with our dags, and as for the fighting well we only do that when our sons are sleeping with our daughters and so on.
we have to draw a line somewere you know?

ricky, oxon says...
11:50am Sun 7 Sep 08

john conners wrote:
gypsy lad wrote:
ricky wrote: good on poppy,she know the irish,anon earlier, know it wouldnt be a gypsy.scare mongles.
just think some off the girls wish they could have one?tough boys.
Shut up mush, oh doordy you tinker
names?so,were no sex attacker,mush bit london?whos side will you be on ? worse than the tinkers here !believe !

ricky, oxford says...
11:57am Sun 7 Sep 08

mr downs wrote:
ricky wrote: its ok 4 bloxum too cry rape.live with them ,pikes,gypos,trav,th ere no sex attackers.dont want no hand outs..do there thing ..lived with them ,plenty fighting.. no sex attacks..13 years!
We dont want hand outs because we steal for a living and get our dags to fight for big money also, we dont rape as we are more than able and willing to sleep with our dags, and as for the fighting well we only do that when our sons are sleeping with our daughters and so on. we have to draw a line somewere you know?
im not a gypsy,just grew up in woodfarm with them ,i know there not saints,but 13years no sex attacks.credit respect for that.. there not all bad ..we invaided ire?

Enoch, England says...
12:47pm Sun 7 Sep 08

Told you so.

Tom, says...
2:15pm Sun 7 Sep 08

gypsy lad wrote:
ricky wrote: good on poppy,she know the irish,anon earlier, know it wouldnt be a gypsy.scare mongles.
just think some off the girls wish they could have one?tough boys.
Do you not have some copper wire to burn the insulation off of?.

Get on with it.

Look whatever the truth of the matter in this case,one thing we can be sure of.....

The traveller way of life means that they are mostly dishonest.

It is the gypsy way,whether you are a Romanian gypsy or an Irish one.

That is a fact.

You cannot be on benefits all your life and then own a new van.


Simple maths.

Another thing to remember here....



Irish Gippos are not reflective of Irish people,why do you think there are so many gippos in this country?.


The Irish people despise them for a good reason.







sarah and andrew, bicester says...
4:16pm Sun 7 Sep 08

put her in prison for 32 days

Bob, says...
4:19pm Sun 7 Sep 08

sarah and andrew wrote:
put her in prison for 32 days
And i guess you know more about this case than we do?

gary, oxford says...
7:16pm Sun 7 Sep 08

Tom wrote:
gypsy lad wrote:
ricky wrote: good on poppy,she know the irish,anon earlier, know it wouldnt be a gypsy.scare mongles.
just think some off the girls wish they could have one?tough boys.
Do you not have some copper wire to burn the insulation off of?. Get on with it. Look whatever the truth of the matter in this case,one thing we can be sure of..... The traveller way of life means that they are mostly dishonest. It is the gypsy way,whether you are a Romanian gypsy or an Irish one. That is a fact. You cannot be on benefits all your life and then own a new van. Simple maths. Another thing to remember here.... Irish Gippos are not reflective of Irish people,why do you think there are so many gippos in this country?. The Irish people despise them for a good reason.
great post tom,Irish Gippos are the scum of the earth,they would rape you kill you at the drop of a hat,pure evil. when will we stand up for our selfs? the police wont help us,we HAVE to do it our selfs.

Mr Ison, England says...
7:47pm Sun 7 Sep 08

Police are not 'ard enough to take on the Didicoys.

kim watts, botley says...
8:05pm Sun 7 Sep 08

Mr Ison wrote:
Police are not 'ard enough to take on the Didicoys.
i think your right mr ison,i know for a FACT that the police wont go NEAR the gypsy camps unless there is 400 of them,and the didicoys KNOW THIS,its why they behave like ANIMALS. THEY KNOW THERE WILL BE NO COME BACK FROM THE PC POLICE OR THE PC SPINELESS LOCALS. so i think we get what we deserve. we are all pc cowards.

Tom, says...
8:10pm Sun 7 Sep 08

Kim is officially hot

i hate the pc bigots, oxfordshire says...
8:35pm Sun 7 Sep 08

"Travellers are people who think that it's perfectly OK for them to cause mayhem in an area, to go burgling, thieving, breaking into vehicles, causing all kinds of other trouble including defecating in the doorways of firms and so on".

Who said this? Not me! None other than The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP when he was Home Secretary in 1999. (Source http://news.bbc.co.u
k/1/hi/uk_politics/4
28915.stm )

While I'm not sure that all travelers thieve, my objection is that they create and leave behind them the most dreadful mess which the local community has to pay to clean up. Old cars, rubbish and worst of all - their ****. But of course, if anyone locally should object to this behaviour then the usual band of PC spokesmen are brought out of the woodwork to condemn them as racists. How ridiculous!

Occasionally, a community which has had a bad time with travellers takes the law into its own hands or perhaps over reacts. This happened recently in Firle, East Sussex.
(Source http://news.bbc.co.u
k/1/hi/england/south
ern_counties/3222321
.stm )

These villagers, after a long battle with travelers, let off steam at a bonfire party and burnt an effigy - a caravan marked 'P1KEY'. Now Trevor Phillips, chairman er um I mean chair? of the Campaign for Racial Equality has called for the perpetrators to be prosecuted for inciting racial hatred. Shame on you Trevor! Haven't you got anything better to do?

Trevor - the problem is not one of race - it is one of anti-social behaviour.

Luckily after an eight month investigation by the police costing over £100,000 - during which twelve villagers faced the prospect of seven years in prison, Ken Macdonald, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said: ‘In order to prosecute there must be sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and if the evidence is not there, no matter how disturbing or unpleasant the allegations may be, a case cannot go ahead.’ Well thanks for nothing Ken. An apology might have been better.


If I was being prosecuted for inciting racial hatred - I would personally question whether 'travellers' belong to any race or ethnic group in the first place. I think that the only common factor that links these travellers is that of financial expediency - if you have no fixed abode then you don't need to pay tax, national insurance, road tax, vehicle insurance or council tax. You can run a business without premises, leave your rubbish for someone else to pay to collect and move on easily to avoid creditors and dissatisfied customers when the tarmac cracks away from the drive.

One of the prejudices we are urged to discard is that so-called ‘travellers’ are thieving and squalid. Certainly, a camp for them at Tintinhull in Somerset seemed to show that they could be responsible and civilised citizens. A number had lived there happily for 20 years and the site received a £500,000 renovation grant from the Office of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. New showers, lavatories, fences and security systems were installed at the site, which featured eight pitches for caravans. Then along came a group of up to 100 Irish travellers, who arrived overnight and destroyed everything in a spree of theft and vandalism. They made off with electrical fittings, heating equipment, alarm covers and wooden fence panels, leaving behind row after row of concrete supports. They illegally tapped into electricity supplies, racking up hundreds of pounds worth of bills. Then they wonder why they have a reputation!

In a new twist, travellers have now started buying land across the country and starting sites without planning permission. Having established the site they then apply for retrospective planning permission which the council naturally refuses. But because of how the planning laws work in the UK, the travellers can run the appeals system for years and also try the Human Rights route. In a recent case a Judge refused to remove travelers from an illegal site on the grounds that it would cause them 'hardship.and suffering'. The local residents ask what about their hardship and suffering? They are subject to threats and intimidation and house prices in the area have plummeted 40%. A spin off of this situation is that now unscrupulous landowners are blackmailing villagers to buy plots of land at hugely inflated prices otherwise they will sell them to travellers.

Meanwhile of course our politically correct government say they can do nothing - the villagers must live with all this mess on their doorsteps. But when it comes to a mess on the government's doorstep then things suddenly can be done. Peter Hain has announced a change in the law so they can move the demonstration against the war in Iraq from the ground outside Parliament. 'It is distressing and upsets many people' he declared 'we must be allowed to go about our business free from harassment'. If just seeing the demonstration is harassment to you, what about all the villagers suffering REAL harassment by being burgled and threatened by travellers Peter? Why not change the law to help them go about their lawful business as well?

The real issue again is that of "Political Correctness". No Judge or Politician dare tackle the real problem of travellers for fear of bad publicity when the PC vociferous minority start bleating. As for discriminating behaviour, it is us vast majority that are being discriminated against. If I threw rubbish down outside my house or **** in the garden, I would soon have the local council, public health and police on my back. If I built a house without planning permission they would soon knock it down. If I am a traveller - they won't dare.

Political Correctness again succeeds in turning reality on its head!


im off, why do the gov hate us. says...
9:39pm Sun 7 Sep 08

Well over half a million illegal invaders who have `become embedded in British society’ will be given an effective secret amnesty by the government, according to a Sunday newspaper.

The News of the World claimed that it had uncovered evidence showing that Home Office officials had been instructed to abandon any efforts to track them down or kick them out of the country.

Instead the huge number, equivalent to a city the size of Sheffield, will be allowed to settle here and work legally.

The decision has been taken because just 60 Immigration Service officials are reviewing a massive backlog of 660,000 applications for asylum.

Around 60,000 are believed to have already been deported, decided to leave, have died - or are awaiting deportation. But, with some applications dating back a decade, ministers have decided it is easier to let the rest stay.

Those who can be contacted will be sent a letter saying they will not be removed - but they will be told that if they leave Britain they cannot come back.

Ministers deny that the “legacy case review” is an amnesty. One said: “If they leave the country they won’t be allowed back in. However, many are now so well embedded in the community it would be a long, drawn-out process to get rid of them.”

But the decision is likely to encourage hundreds of thousands more migrants to travel to Britain, knowing they are unlikely to be removed .

Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “More immigrants settling in Britain is the last thing we need.

“Our population is already increasing by a third of a million every year, mainly due to immigration. We will have to build the equivalent of the city of Birmingham every three years just to cope.”


Geoff, Oxford says...
9:56pm Sun 7 Sep 08

I see the numpties are out in force again. Don't let the facts about this false accusation get in the way of your blind bigotry...

geoff is a commie, oxford says...
10:08pm Sun 7 Sep 08

Geoff wrote:
I see the numpties are out in force again. Don't let the facts about this false accusation get in the way of your blind bigotry...
blind bigotry? have you had a good look a round you commie,your scum end of.

redbridge crew, oxon says...
11:02pm Sun 7 Sep 08

geoff is a commie wrote:
Geoff wrote: I see the numpties are out in force again. Don't let the facts about this false accusation get in the way of your blind bigotry...
blind bigotry? have you had a good look a round you commie,your scum end of.
great the fairs,coming too oxford.why there here numptys.

2 para, in a house thats payed for says...
11:12pm Sun 7 Sep 08

ricky wrote:
mr downs wrote:
ricky wrote: its ok 4 bloxum too cry rape.live with them ,pikes,gypos,trav,th ere no sex attackers.dont want no hand outs..do there thing ..lived with them ,plenty fighting.. no sex attacks..13 years!
We dont want hand outs because we steal for a living and get our dags to fight for big money also, we dont rape as we are more than able and willing to sleep with our dags, and as for the fighting well we only do that when our sons are sleeping with our daughters and so on. we have to draw a line somewere you know?
im not a gypsy,just grew up in woodfarm with them ,i know there not saints,but 13years no sex attacks.credit respect for that.. there not all bad ..we invaided ire?
we did not invaid ire we went over to look after the caff`s cuz the pross where kicking crap out of them , and the thanks we got was bricks at our heads , and as you lived with them you should know this , or have you had been told bull by them as is the norm . they dont like us so go home

ricky, oxonia says...
11:41pm Sun 7 Sep 08

2 para wrote:
ricky wrote:
mr downs wrote:
ricky wrote: its ok 4 bloxum too cry rape.live with them ,pikes,gypos,trav,th ere no sex attackers.dont want no hand outs..do there thing ..lived with them ,plenty fighting.. no sex attacks..13 years!
We dont want hand outs because we steal for a living and get our dags to fight for big money also, we dont rape as we are more than able and willing to sleep with our dags, and as for the fighting well we only do that when our sons are sleeping with our daughters and so on. we have to draw a line somewere you know?
im not a gypsy,just grew up in woodfarm with them ,i know there not saints,but 13years no sex attacks.credit respect for that.. there not all bad ..we invaided ire?
we did not invaid ire we went over to look after the caff`s cuz the pross where kicking crap out of them , and the thanks we got was bricks at our heads , and as you lived with them you should know this , or have you had been told bull by them as is the norm . they dont like us so go home
maybe damage done before your time? least irish learned blowing each other up no answer.un like others.

richard, england says...
11:58pm Sun 7 Sep 08

ricky wrote:
2 para wrote:
ricky wrote:
mr downs wrote:
ricky wrote: its ok 4 bloxum too cry rape.live with them ,pikes,gypos,trav,th ere no sex attackers.dont want no hand outs..do there thing ..lived with them ,plenty fighting.. no sex attacks..13 years!
We dont want hand outs because we steal for a living and get our dags to fight for big money also, we dont rape as we are more than able and willing to sleep with our dags, and as for the fighting well we only do that when our sons are sleeping with our daughters and so on. we have to draw a line somewere you know?
im not a gypsy,just grew up in woodfarm with them ,i know there not saints,but 13years no sex attacks.credit respect for that.. there not all bad ..we invaided ire?
we did not invaid ire we went over to look after the caff`s cuz the pross where kicking crap out of them , and the thanks we got was bricks at our heads , and as you lived with them you should know this , or have you had been told bull by them as is the norm . they dont like us so go home
maybe damage done before your time? least irish learned blowing each other up no answer.un like others.
we invaided everywhere .com on history ! lesson ?

2PARA, england says...
1:43am Mon 8 Sep 08

richard wrote:
ricky wrote:
2 para wrote:
ricky wrote:
mr downs wrote:
ricky wrote: its ok 4 bloxum too cry rape.live with them ,pikes,gypos,trav,th ere no sex attackers.dont want no hand outs..do there thing ..lived with them ,plenty fighting.. no sex attacks..13 years!
We dont want hand outs because we steal for a living and get our dags to fight for big money also, we dont rape as we are more than able and willing to sleep with our dags, and as for the fighting well we only do that when our sons are sleeping with our daughters and so on. we have to draw a line somewere you know?
im not a gypsy,just grew up in woodfarm with them ,i know there not saints,but 13years no sex attacks.credit respect for that.. there not all bad ..we invaided ire?
we did not invaid ire we went over to look after the caff`s cuz the pross where kicking crap out of them , and the thanks we got was bricks at our heads , and as you lived with them you should know this , or have you had been told bull by them as is the norm . they dont like us so go home
maybe damage done before your time? least irish learned blowing each other up no answer.un like others.
we invaided everywhere .com on history ! lesson ?
the scot`s landloards started the ire problem not us , history lesson richard

epilepticus, Bicester says...
8:44am Mon 8 Sep 08

Hmmm.... it appears that these comments have gone a lot off topic.

This teenager may have been raped, but then again, she may not have been. I think its down to the police to carry out their investigation. The comments regarding the 'rapists name' as far as I can see from this site the guy has not been named. Maybe I am wrong in which case I will apologise.

It appears to me that alot of stereotyping is going on here. I agree that some of the gypsies are very dishonest and are out to create problems and acts of crime, what some of you fail to realise if that all the crime is not down to this 'group / society' of people. Oh and secondly, there are a lot of diffences between these groups of people. Too quote..."great the fairs,coming too oxford." The people who manage / work on these fairs are actually known as 'Showman' They actually work hard for a living, a lot of these live in mobile homes during the times they are not working. From my experience..... I have seen that these sites are kept clean, reason being.... Generations of people have been living there for decades.

Moving on from that. The news of the world is a comic, surely this is a news paper that cannot be taken seriously. Where the cover story "I slept with a footballer" takes priority over the state of the economy or the genocides in Rwanda.

Peter Purvis, Great Coxwell says...
9:20am Mon 8 Sep 08

Why are men named in the paper when charged with rape surely this should not be done until they have been proved guilty? otherwise they could put an innocent mans name in the paper.

Sue, Cowley Road says...
10:28am Mon 8 Sep 08

Tom wrote:
Kim is officially hot
Tom,

You are frisky again.

More power to your elbow!

Your comments are coming over very well.

Thank you.

Mike, East Oxford says...
10:38am Mon 8 Sep 08

epilepticus, Bicester
"The comments regarding the 'rapists name' as far as I can see from this site the guy has not been named. Maybe I am wrong in which case I will apologise".

You are not mistaken.
Names were not used, but; accusations were made as to the ethnicity of the possible offenders.

Whether racism, or truth; has still to be determined!

Alan Page, says...
12:31pm Mon 8 Sep 08

Mike wrote:
epilepticus, Bicester "The comments regarding the 'rapists name' as far as I can see from this site the guy has not been named. Maybe I am wrong in which case I will apologise". You are not mistaken. Names were not used, but; accusations were made as to the ethnicity of the possible offenders. Whether racism, or truth; has still to be determined!
What "offenders"? No crime has been committed!!!

Adolf, says...
6:26pm Mon 8 Sep 08

I had ze right idea viv zem!

Mike, East Oxford says...
8:20pm Mon 8 Sep 08

Alan Page wrote:
Mike wrote: epilepticus, Bicester "The comments regarding the 'rapists name' as far as I can see from this site the guy has not been named. Maybe I am wrong in which case I will apologise". You are not mistaken. Names were not used, but; accusations were made as to the ethnicity of the possible offenders. Whether racism, or truth; has still to be determined!
What "offenders"? No crime has been committed!!!
Alan,

Unlike you; written in the past tense and possible offenders!

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