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Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:46 AM on 26th December 2011
A woman claims she was sexually assaulted by a male colleague after a fire station’s Christmas party.
The victim and the alleged attacker were understood to have been celebrating with other staff, including firefighters and control room operators.
It is believed that some of the staff were forced to sleep in the station overnight because they lived some distance away.
Ordeal: The victim claims she was set upon during a Christmas party (Posed by model)
At one point in the early hours of December 19 the woman was allegedly set upon.
After the alarm was raised at around 7.30am, officers from Scotland Yard’s Sapphire unit – which investigates rapes and other serious sexual violence – arrested a man in his 20s on suspicion of sexual assault.
The man, whose identity has not been revealed by officers, was released on bail. He is due to return to the police station at the end of February for further questioning.
The incident has raised the prospect that the revellers slept overnight at the station, in South London, without permission from their bosses. No one from the emergency services was last night able to confirm whether approval had been granted for the sleep-over.
It was also unknown if the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and her alleged attacker were on or off duty when the apparent incident happened.
Last night a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: ‘Detectives from Sapphire are investigating an alleged sexual assault on a woman in South London.’
The London Fire Brigade was unwilling to discuss the incident. A spokesman said: ‘We don’t comment on matters involving individual staff members.’
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