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Hilary Heath. Photo credit: Daily Mail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A British former actress savagely attacked in her Barbados home by a serial rapist claims the island’s police failed to warn the public about the string of attacks – and were ‘apparently only concerned with the image of Barbados tourism’.<\/p>\n

Hilary Heath, who appeared in films including Wuthering Heights and television series The Avengers, has formally complained alongside two other British victims about the police investigation. They other women, in their twenties, were attacked by the same man after Mrs Heath’s ordeal.<\/p>\n

She says she had to beg for DNA swabs to be taken when she went to hospital, officers failed to seize vital evidence such as her bed sheets and items handled by the rapist for forensic clues, and a statement taken from her was ‘barely literate’.<\/p>\n

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