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Daily Mail
November 28, 2013
The Foreign Office has apologised and agreed to pay £1,000 compensation to a British woman who was raped by a military officer in Egypt, after they failed to provide proper support to her following the attack.
A damning investigation by the Parliamentary Ombudsman found the FCO was guilty of ‘maladministration and injustice’ after the woman turned to it for help when she was assaulted in May 2011.
In her report, Dame Julie Mellor said that although the woman – referred to only as Ms M – had clearly been frightened and vulnerable, officials at the British Embassy in Cairo failed to explain clearly how they could help her.
They did not arrange a medical examination or offer to accompany her to a hospital and had no knowledge of post-exposure prophylaxis – a treatment which can prevent HIV infection after the virus has entered the body.
In particular, the report said officials did not accompany her to report the attack, and failed to appreciate her fears that she could be arrested or even killed if she made a complaint against a military officer to the police who were themselves under the control of the military.
‘Ms M was far away from home, she had been through a terrifying ordeal, and the FCO were the only authority she could approach for help. She should have been able to rely on them to fulfil their role and assist her when she was at her most vulnerable,’ the report said.
Ms M’s ordeal began when she was stopped at a checkpoint while travelling in the Sinai region, three months after the revolution which overthrew President Hosni Mubarak.
A man in plain clothes, who she believed to be a military officer, told her she would not be able to continue her journey until the next day. He took her to a place where he said she could sleep and then raped her.
