officer left woman alone with rapist.

Really stellar police work going down in the UK these days. Last November, a neighbor called 999 (the British equivalent of 911) to report the screams of a woman in Woolwich. upon responding to the call, Pc Matthew Harris was greeted at the door by Vitas Jasionas, 54 (who looks really quite trustworthy in his mug shot, don't you think?), who assured him that everything was just fine. So, Harris just left--even though the woman, at that point, had already been assaulted at least once. Later, she called the police again, but by the time the police showed up and Jasionas was arrested on the scene, she had already been raped again.

Almost a year later, Jasionas has been found guilty of raping the 32-year-old woman whom Harris left in the flat without further inquiry. Harris is now being investigated.

Um, duh.