Prosecution of Abbi-Louise Maple and Rachel Marchant: CPS statement

24 August 2007

Abbi-Louise Maple and Rachel Marchant appeared at Worthing Magistrates' Court on 22 August charged with outraging public decency.

The Chief Crown Prosecutor, Sarah Jane Gallagher, in consultation with Sussex Police, has subsequently reviewed the case and she has decided that to continue with the case would not be in the public interest.

The case has therefore been discontinued.

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