AJ Paterson

TATE INVESTIGATION: NEW QUESTIONS OVER POLICE HANDLING OF WOMEN'S COMPLAINTS New questions are being raised about what Hertfordshire Police did with evidence they obtained while investigating our clients’ allegations against Andrew Tate more than a decade ago. Some of that evidence is now being relied upon by prosecutors seeking Tate’s extradition from the US to face criminal charges involving other women. It includes alleged indecent images of children. The Times reports today that the handling of this evidence is under further scrutiny by the Independent Office for Police Conduct. Our clients accused Tate of rape and assault. The police investigated their complaints, but the case ended, we say wrongly, without charges being brought. The IOPC was already investigating how Hertfordshire Police handled those complaints, including whether opportunities to properly investigate and potentially prosecute their allegations were missed. Our clients came forward more than a decade ago, and their complaints led police to obtain evidence that is now being used to prosecute allegations made by other women. Yet our clients’ own cases ended without prosecution. They are entitled to know why. Today’s disclosure raises a wider concern: what did the police do with the other evidence they obtained during that same investigation? Our clients are entitled to know what evidence Hertfordshire Police had, what was done with it, and why an investigation which began more than a decade ago ended without prosecution. They have waited long enough for those answers. There have been no formal findings, and the IOPC investigation remains ongoing. Andrew Tate denies wrongdoing. The Times report on this can be found in the thread below.