Woman arrested "had intially been mistaken for a man"

My heart breaks for the victim who has to say "the person who attacked me is now in custody"

It was surely traumatic enough without having to be careful of misgendering your attacker!!

Where's the Daily Mail when you want them?

ItsAllGoingToBeFine

Cheers for that. Yet another thing to keep me out of mischief.

I wonder if the police let any of the victims see images of the supposed perpetrator?

Hi I was the lady who was attacked and can say that the person who attacked me is in custody. I would ask people not to speculate if possible as I have been advised by the police that it’s in judicial proceedings which I don’t want to jeopardise. Many thanks

From the forum. Read into that what you may!!

ItsAllGoingToBeFine

Thank you so much. I am going to have to start learning how to do this, particularly now that so much stuff simply vanishes into the ether.

This just illustrates how stupid the whole thing is. It may be an unusually strong butch 53 year old woman. It may be a 53 year old transman. It may be a well preserved 53 year old man. Or it may be a transwoman. The public has no way of knowing, and as the statement is vastly different to what the victims reported it undermines confidence in the police.

This case and the articles others have posted...all of this feels like the definition of madness.

Could someone please archive that twitter feed before Dulwich Police realise how stupid they have been.

She reported that the unknown man had attacked her out of the blue on Wood Vale and tried to smash her head against a wall while her distraught child ran to try and find help.

Pink News will be appalled. The victim's 'misgendering' = "actual violence"?

The boys in blue

Misgendering many of them! Jail for you.

Sex specific body fluid e.g semen or breast milk? By giving more information about the fluid they would indicate the individuals sex?

That was my thought, and the reason I highlighted it.

Dulwich Police twitter is going mad about this.

twitter.com/MPSDulwichHill/status/1404852468429856777

Police have now admitted they were unable to race to the scene after dealing with a series of emergencies across the city the same night.

Perhaps the police could help us by defining a emergency. If an attempted strangulation by a stranger in a very public place doesn't qualify then I wonder what does? Are the local newspapers full of reports about the other crimes they were attending?

It might be a good strategy for women being threatened or attacked to call 999 and claim to be a trans person being mis gendered or otherwise subjected to a perceived hate crime. Perhaps they could mention that they were having an attack of the vapours at the sight of ribbons in suffrage colours.

The boys in blue will send 10 cars in no time.

I had a squint at the public list for today at Bromley Magistrates court, and there isn’t a Marie Archer on it.

It gets more confusing. The comments which are not being deleted are definiely not having any of it.

www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/exclusive-three-more-women-attacked-by-knife-wielding-suspect-in-east-dulwich/

A 53 year old female, with enough grip strength and large enough hand span to attempt to strangle a younger woman?

I don’t find that compelling.

I would believe that they are the same person as the 2019 incident and would believe that the ‘ejected’ bodily fluid is accurately recorded.

By giving more information about the fluid they would indicate the individual's actual sex rather than what has been reported.

Let's hope there's a reporter there who can clear up some of the inconsistencies. Perhaps Marie is a very youthful looking 53 year old.

The discrepancy in age is enough to make me suspect that Marie might be an actual woman.

Women who are read as male at first glance appear far younger than their age, while males-read-as-female look much older.

Why on earth do they keep referencing a secret bodily fluid, as well as spit

Sex specific body fluid e.g semen or breast milk? By giving more information about the fluid they would indicate the individuals sex?

How bizarre. I'm not confident they have caught the men who was attacking women, this reads like 2 separate things