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DC Terry Perkins visits a clinic for rape victims, and is horrified when 16 year old Janine Clark says she was raped by her boyfriend Mark Watts and his three friends, Greg Holbrook, Paul Hayes and Leo Cooper a few days ago. At the station, Janine tells Terry she was invited to Greg’s house, where all four boys were drinking and watching porn. Janine admits to going into a bedroom to have sex with Mark, but afterwards he slapped her and told her to “be nice” to his friends. While Mark, Paul and Leo raped her, Greg held her down and Paul filmed it on Mark’s phone. The four boys are arrested and when Mark is questioned, the arrogant teenager says the group sex was initiated by Janine.
Elsewhere, Greg is interviewed by DCs Jo Masters and Jacob Banks, with his mother Susan as his appropriate adult. Greg tells Jo how two weeks before, Janine had started kissing him in front of Mark and Susan takes this as proof that Janine is lying about being raped. Jo becomes more frustrated as Susan obstructs the interview throughout. After the interviews, DI Neil Manson heads up a briefing and clashes with Jo who insists that whatever Janine may have done in the past, it doesn’t mean that she consented on the night of the incident. Neil, Banksy and Terry are sympathetic but know that it weakens the case against the boys, but Jo refuses to give up…
Back at Janine’s house, she admits to Terry that she did kiss Greg, but only to make Mark jealous - she never consented to group sex. Janine’s mother Carol, clearly struggling with the situation, angrily berates her for bringing trouble on herself. As the investigation continues, Neil makes it clear to his team that without the mobile phone footage, they don’t have a case. Later that day, Janine tells Terry she wants to drop the charges as she’s been receiving threatening phone calls and Terry begs her to reconsider. Jo, horrified that the boys might get away with the rape, begs for more time on the case. With egotistical Mark, confident that he’ll be out of Sun Hill soon, Jo is determined to get a confession out of Greg, the weakest member of the group. With only two hours left until they can be released, can Jo uncover the truth…?
Don’t miss ‘Held Responsible’ on ITV1, 9pm Thursday 14th January
Repeated on ITV3 on Monday 18 January at 23:00
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