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GMP pay out £2,800 in damages for 'failed probe' into homeless woman who was sexually assaulted in tent as she slept

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A homeless woman sexually assaulted by a stranger as she slept in a tent has been awarded damages after police failed to investigate, her lawyers said.

The victim was sleeping on the streets of Manchester city centre when she woke to find the man in her tent with his hand inside her clothes.

She immediately reported the incident to police and officers arrived at the scene. However, she maintains they spoke to her only briefly in the back of a patrol car. READ MORE:BMW driver taken to hospital after being attacked by gang of thugs in terrifying carjacking outside home CCTV footage was reviewed by police and the sexual assault case was closed.

No formal statements were taken from the woman, or her partner who was a witness, and no other potential witnesses were interviewed, lawyers for the victim said.

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