{"id":31070,"date":"2011-07-28T07:09:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T07:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=31070"},"modified":"2013-06-15T06:40:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T06:40:32","slug":"the-%e2%80%98rape%e2%80%99-of-rachel-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=31070","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Rape\u2019 of Rachel North"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Kollerstrom \u2013 Terror on the Tube June 29, 2011<\/h1>\n

On the morning of July 7th<\/sup>, 2005, while journeying into London on the Piccadilly line, just before the train she was on exploded, Rachel North claimed to have been reading an account of her rape which she had written up, in the women\u2019s magazine \u2018Marie Claire,\u2019 which had coincidentally been published that day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>She is a victim in both cases of dark-skinned young men: Germaine Lindsay who allegedly blew up the carriage she was on, came from Barbados and was 19 years old at the time; while the\u00a0Jamaican who allegedly raped her in 2002\u00a0was 17 years old at the time. One happened on July 17, the other on July 7th<\/sup>. Her book \u2018out of the Tunnel\u2019<\/span>[1]<\/span><\/a> compares these two experiences. I suggest the rape story is largely fictitious.<\/span><\/p>\n

After her alleged rape,\u00a0RN was hypnotically regressed by a police psychologist <\/span>[2]<\/span><\/a>, to help her remember:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I couldn\u2019t\u00a0remember, I gave permission for a Professor of forensic Psychology to work with the police using new \u00a0techniques on me in interview to unlock the suppressed memories locked down by masssive trauma-amnesia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hmm, that does seem a good basis for putting a 17-year old\u00a0 Jamaican immigrant into jail for 15 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

She got home late from a Stockwell pub, to her ground-floor flat in Wood Green, quite drunk on vodka\u00a0(\u2018I realised I was drunk\u2019) at around 12.30 at night (page 13, Out of the Tunnel). She took a painkiller to lessen her headache, went to bed and fell asleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is woken up at around one am by a knock on the communally-shared door. Her partner had stayed out late and she is alone in the flat. She sees his silhouette, and guesses he is a Jamaican young man (in reality, I would say, she has just invited a young Jamaican home with her, from Stockwell). Would a single woman \u2013 drunk, woken up from sleep, with a headache \u2013 really open two doors, her own flat and the main front door, to a Jamaican stranger in the early hours of the morning?<\/span><\/p>\n

Or, would a single man not ring a doorbell, but instead bang on a main front door, a building with three floors of detached flats in it \u2013 after midnight \u2013 hoping to rape someone? We are here at an extreme limit of absurdity. What would he have said if someone from another flat had answered? Or, if Rachel\u2019s partner had\u00a0answered the door?<\/span><\/p>\n

Apparently, he wants to enter a home and start raping the person who opened the door \u2013 on the landing! He would surely have had to expect that some guy would be at her home also. Rapes are usually done by people who know the victim closely, or at least by a man who has been tailing the woman for a while, to have a chance to get aroused.<\/span><\/p>\n

After opening the\u00a0 main front door to the young Jamaican, if indeed he had begun to assault her, RN would have started shrieking her head off \u2013 she is quite a big lady, not easily shut up. That would have woken up other house occupants. The idea that her \u2018rapist\u2019 can pull here through the communal passageway, in silence, then into her flat, and then start assaulting her on her hall-landing \u2013 do you want to believe that?<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, having been thoroughly raped and <\/em>all her clothes stripped off and<\/em> her hands tied behind her back \u2013 did he bring some rope with him? –\u00a0RN finds he is trying to kill her \u2013 again for no reason. Does that\u00a0seem likely behaviour for a young immigrant, newly\u00a0arrived in England? So she feigns dead, and thereby survives. Then she has an out-of-the-body experience. (This, maybe, is being recalled under hypnosis by a police psychologist). Time goes by, and we are to assume the rapist has gone, as suddenly as he came (\u2018The man muttered \u201cShit!\u201d and then left.\u2019 (3)) \u2013 no motive is given for this act in RN\u2019s story, though it destroys his whole life.<\/span><\/p>\n

RN regains consciousness \u2018perhaps two hours later\u2019 (p.23) so let\u2019s surmise it\u2019s around three o\u2019clock in the morning. Bloody and naked, she goes out of her flat and upstairs, where she starts banging hard on the door of the upstairs flat. Perhaps it\u2019s fortunate the occupants did not open the door, they would have had a shock.\u00a0 Eventually despairing \u2013 with her man still not having returned \u2013 she goes out of the front door still naked and \u2018flings\u2019 herself down the steps (The Times<\/em><\/span>[3]<\/span><\/a>) then \u2018flings\u2019 herself across the bonnet of a police car (Daily Mail<\/span>[4]<\/span><\/a>) which \u2013 get this \u2013 just happens to have drawn up as she emerged \u2013 and utters a blood-curdling scream. Would a woman who has just received forty separate injuries from a rapist\/killer really throw herself naked across a car bonnet? Would the car draw up at the exact synchronous moment?<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re here meant to believe that the upstairs residents, while declining to open the door on which she was banging, yet called the police.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some have surmised that maybe she did maybe \u2018fling\u2019 herself down the steps, after all her man would have to see some bruises when he returned, to believe the story.\u00a0From the young man\u2019s pleas in the courtroom, as narrated in RN\u2019s several accounts, we could gather that RN after getting drunk<\/span>[5]<\/span><\/a> at her local, found herself wondering what it would be like to get laid by a young black man, and invited him home. He averred in his trial that he was not guilty and that the event had been \u2018consensual\u2019.<\/span>[6]<\/span><\/a> RN:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe had no explanation for the injuries on my body, and there were over forty, nor could he explain why I was found tied up and covered in blood with a wire noose around my neck.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hang on, Rachel: if you were \u2018found\u2019 tied up and covered in blood, then how come you \u2018flung\u2019 yourself across the police car bonnet? And, maybe the bewildered young man had no explanation for the injuries on your body, because he left before you had flung<\/em> yourself down your own steps in order to get those injuries? Did he bring some rope with him to tie you up, with your hands behind your back, as your book describes?<\/span><\/p>\n

Doubt has been expressed over this rape story, eg:<\/span><\/p>\n