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No dna tests were done, sounds like they should have been done to remove any allegations credibility if they are so adamantly claiming to not be at fault.
It's a cover up. They can try to claim he said she said, but the fact that they didn't take a timely complaint seriously allows us to read between the lines.
It's a standard mo for Britian. Do whatever they can to deny that a problem exists in the first place. You see it in the Tory party with islamaphobia, the labour party with antisemitism, Nigel garage denying he's a racist, the government denying racism in the met and the former met commissioner denying that there's rampant sexual misconduct in the met.
British people want to bury their head in the fucking sand and ignore a problem until people move onto something else. And it speaks volumes that I've not seen anything about this situation in the BBC or the guardian, wouldn't expect any of the others to even mention it because they're so fucking biased.
Literally, if you know there's 0 chance of it happening, why not test?
Note: this is very different when you're a government entity making the claim and doing the test vs when you're an individual making a claim and then someone else does the test, especially if law enforcement or other government bodies are involved.
If the UK investigators were so sure, then doing the tests remove all doubts, and nobody can point to it and go "then why didn't you test? Seems shady to me" because... Well... Seems shady to me.