Merseyside Police has apologised for jokes about rape that was posted to its Twitter account.
The first message read: “Just confirm there was no actual rape. Sunderland certainly got caught with their pants down.” The tweet was posted in response to a message which said: “Hello. I’d like to report an incident of rape that occurred at Goodison Park, Liverpool, on November 1st at 3:00.”
The Merseyside Police Twitter account posted a second message: “Afraid not, it’s not a criminal offence to lose week in, week out“.” This was in response to the subsequent tweet to them by another user: “I’d like to report an incident that’s been going on for ages. Chelsea get raped every week, can you help?”
The tweets were removed two hours later.