Woman’s assault investigation dropped by police ‘because suspect didn’t answer door’

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Emily Geer filmed a man who tried to hit her (Picture: SWNS) A woman has slammed police for dropping an assault investigation because the suspect ignored calls from cops and did…

A woman has slammed police for dropping an assault investigation because the suspect ignored calls from cops and did not answer his door.

Emily Geer, 33, filmed a man appearing to try to hit her as she walked to a university library in Manchester on April 16.

She handed the footage to police, who she said were quickly able to identify the suspect.

But almost seven months later, she received a text saying officers had failed to interview or arrest him before the deadline for bringing a prosecution expired.

They said this was because he ‘did not engage’ with letters, phone calls and knocks at his front door.

Emily said: ‘They told me they understood it might be disappointing. But disappointment was the last emotion I was feeling – I’m completely fearful because this person might remember me.

‘Now he knows he’s not going to be arrested. He will know he’s got away with it.’

Emily, from Newton Heath, said she initially noticed a man behaving strangely towards another woman before he began targeting her.

She said: ‘I thought he was with the woman, but as they came closer to me, I realised she was very uncomfortable. He kept looking at her, and she was kind of standing next to me at one point.

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