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Lucy Manning: A sexually obscene phone call - and my two-year ordeal getting police to act

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Summary
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63% Informative

BBC journalist recorded a man masturbating and making lewd comments about her genitalia.

She recorded him on her work phone and put it on speakerphone and recorded him.

Lancashire Police dropped her case and only reopened after a Victims' Right to Review was carried out.

Wayne Couzens was eventually charged - but he wouldn't have been if I hadn't taken control of it.

Wayne Couzens pleaded guilty to three indecent exposure offences just days before he raped and murdered Sarah Everard .

Lancashire Police were heavily criticised for their failure to deal with these incidents, which could have identified him as a sex offender.

The police were going through the suspect's current phone - which he claimed was separate to the one that was âlostâ. Unsurprisingly, they couldnât find anything on it.

Nick Garnett waited six months for the suspect to be brought back to court.

The Lancashire constable said the suspect was lying but new evidence had been found.

The suspect was rearrested and interviewed but still claimed he'd lost his phone.

VR Score

68

Informative language

70

Neutral language

37

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

34

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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no external sources

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