Nc for this.
a good friend of my DD was arrested a year ago on suspicion of rape of someone she doesn’t know. Absolute shock for the whole friendship group and DD pulled back from him while this investigation went on. He then told her the whole case had been dropped and they rekindled their friendship. He spends a lot of time at her flat.
Fast forward to last night when two police officers turned up at my DD flat looking for him. She didn’t answer the door at first because she was scared stiff (alone in her flat, anxiety issues and never been involved with the police before). They started banging at the door heavily and she then let them in. They said it was a good job she had because they were about to force entry, I.e. smash the door in.
They fairly aggressively questioned her about his whereabouts, told her repeatedly she’d be in serious trouble if she was hiding him (obvs wasn’t) and searched the flat top to bottom. She was fine with this. They then left after being given his address and said not to contact him. She’s since found out that last year he was
Eventually RUI (released under investigation). The case has not been dropped. DD told her flatmate what was going on but forgot to tell her not to contact the friend so she did and friend called DD and she said he was eerily calm about the whole thing. Police haven’t reached him yet despite his address being 5/10 mins from DD.
So my questions are -
how did they know to turn up at DDs flat?
did they have any authority to force entry?
why haven’t they seen him yet? When they were pretty bloody keen to find him and DD gave them his address.
TIA!