UK News 13-08-2001 Hamiltons May Sue Over Rape Scandal who: Neil Hamilton what: Says he may sue police over rape arrest where: LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "Neil and Christine Hamilton said yesterday that they may sue Scotland Yard over their arrest by detectives investigating allegations of rape," reports The Times today. "The former government minister and his wife say that they are considering bringing a case for unlawful arrest and wrongful imprisonment," writes chief reporter Ian Cobain, "after being questioned about an alleged attack on a college lecturer." Mr and Mrs Hamilton were questioned on Friday about the alleged sexual assault of a 28-year-old college lecturer and mother-of-two at an orgy in Ilford on May 5th. Yet The Hamiltons say they gave a dinner party for half-a-dozen people at their Battersea flat on that occasion and in today`s Scotsman, businessman and Eurosceptic lobbyist Tony Tucker says he recalls having "an extremely jolly evening" in their company. But the alleged victim`s mother, while admitting her daughter is "no angel", insists she is "no liar" either, reports The Mirror. "I can`t tell you what I think of the Hamiltons," she says, "you wouldn`t print it." [... more]

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