Fulham manager Marco Silva says he shares the club’s sadness after a report by The Athletic into what appears to be a flawed police investigation into historic allegations of sexual assault made by former women’s team players.
On Friday, The Athletic revealed that four former Fulham Ladies players spoke to the police at length in 2021 and 2022, detailing claims of sexual assaults when two of them were minors and of inappropriate and sometimes overlapping relationships with a number of young adult players.
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The man they accuse, former manager of the team Gary Mulcahey, categorically denies their claims. The Metropolitan Police decided to drop the investigation and take “no further action”, citing “insufficient evidence” earlier this year, but the force’s apparent handling of the case has been described as “unacceptable” by Nazir Afzal, the former chief crown prosecutor for north-west England.
Three of the players — ex-captain Ronnie Gibbons and her former team-mates Deena Greaves (nee Rahman) and Claire, identified only by her first name — spoke separately to The Athletic about the abuse they say they suffered and how they felt let down by…
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