An 18-year-old Malaysian student has reportedly been gang-raped by several Russian men, including an intelligence officer for the Moscow Police.
British tabloid The Sun, which first carried the story last Thursday, reported that the girl had attended a party at the prestigious Bellerbys College in Greenwich, South London, where she is studying.
Quoting sources, the report claimed the girl was drugged and filmed while seven Russian men assaulted her. One of the men has been identified as intelligence officer Oleg Vladimirvich Ivanov, 23, who has been charged with the offence.
The incident was said to have happened early two Sundays ago during the party attended by English language students of the college. The report also stated that police confiscated iPhones, which contained alarming footage of the victim being gang-raped.
Ivanov and three others identified as Gregory Andreev Melnikov, 22, Norayr Davtyan, 25, and Arnen Simonay, 26, were charged at the Woolwich Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday and Wednesday.
All four claimed trial and have been remanded.
They will appear at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday.
Two other suspects were allowed bail while another was released without charges.
The tabloid report stated that the men claimed to be students, but reliable sources were quoted as saying that Ivanov, who had only been in Britain for a week before the alleged gang-rape, worked in the Intelligence Section of the Moscow Police.
A friend realised something was amiss after the victim staggered into her room.
“She is distraught. She is very young and it is believed she was given a drug before being defiled,” the report quoted a source as saying.
When contacted by Malaysian newspaper The Star, two students of the college were reserved in their comments.
“What we know so far is what everyone has read in the newspaper (The Sun). We refuse to talk about the case as we are not allowed to. Please contact our college officials if you want a comment,” said one of them.
The college officials could not be reached for comment.
-- Yahoo! News
don't expect justice from the Brits...................now, their law screw-up liao.................on purpose................