Miss de Freitas, 23, took her own life days before the court case against her was due to begin because she feared she would be sectioned due to her bipolar disorder, says her father.
The father of Freitas who killed herself days before being put on trial for an allegation of making a false rape claim says he has been “let down terribly” by the British justice system.
His daughter Eleanor de Freitas, 23, made an allegation of rape in January 2013 but although a man was arrested no case was brought against him.
That man subsequently brought a private prosecution against Miss de Freitas in April this year but – terrified of facing the trial – she took her own life days before the court case opened.
Police believed her allegation of rape to be genuine but a case could not be brought because of a lack of evidence due to the gap in time between the alleged rape and her reporting of it.
Eleanor’s father says his daughter’s death raises serious questions about the treatment of rape victims in Britain
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