Ulrika Jonsson: I would not report rape to police today
The Independent|March 26, 2023
Ulrika Jonsson has said she would not report her rape if it happened today because she feels "deeply uneasy" about the police.
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Ulrika Jonsson: I would not report rape to police today

The TV presenter - best known for Gladiators and Shooting Stars criticised the standards of policing in the UK for having "an indifference about women and their safety".

In her 2002 memoir, Jonsson, 55, divulged that she had been raped when she was 20 years old and beginning her career as a weather presenter.

Jonsson said that she did not report the assault at the time because she did not think she would be believed since she knew the rapist.

In her recent column for The Sun, she explained that there "was no such crime as date rape" at the time.

"Society had taught me that I - as a woman - was culpable for finding myself alone in a room with a man," she wrote. "I lived with that guilt and felt it for decades."

Jonsson went on to say that she still would not go to the police today over fears that she would not be taken seriously.

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