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Cambridgeshire police face questions over decision to hand sexual assault case to US military
Jacob Wulfson, who strangled woman he met online, was allowed to be tried at airbase court martial instead of facing UK justice Bizarre questions and an all-male ‘jury’: woman strangled by US pilot in Britain tells of airbase trial Explainer: how the US bypasses British courts A police force in England is facing mounting questions over its decision to allow the US military to prosecute the case of a woman who was strangled by an American fighter pilot in his apartment in Cambridge city centre. Cambridgeshire police has acknowledged that in the days after the assault in 2023, it allowed the US military to take “investigative primacy” in the case, despite the fact the crime took place within the force’s territory and when the pilot was off duty. Continue reading...
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Jacob Wulfson, who strangled woman he met online, was allowed to be tried at airbase court martial instead of facing UK justice Bizarre questions and an all-male ‘jury’: woman strangled by US pilot in Britain tells of airbase trial Explainer: how the US bypasses British courts A police force in England is facing mounting questions over its decision to allow the US military to prosecute the case of a woman who was strangled by an American fighter pilot in his apartment in Cambridge city centre. Cambridgeshire police has acknowledged that in the days after the assault in 2023, it allowed the US military to take “investigative primacy” in the case, despite the fact the crime took place within the force’s territory and when the pilot was off duty. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s linked item, Cambridgeshire police face questions over decision to hand sexual assault case to US military, Jacob Wulfson, who strangled woman he met online, was allowed to be tried at airbase court martial instead of facing UK justice Bizarre questions and an all-male ‘jury’: woman strangled by US pilot in Britain tells of airbase trial Explainer: how the US bypasses British courts A police force in England is facing mounting questions over its decision to allow the US military to prosecute the case of a woman who was strangled by an American fighter pilot in his apartment in Cambridge city centre. Cambridgeshire police has acknowledged that in the days after the assault in 2023, it allowed the US military to take “investigative primacy” in the case, despite the fact the crime took place within the force’s territory and when the pilot was off duty. Continue reading…
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