Redcaps and USAF SKycops downtown Cam
Forgot to mention night before the bloke got raped by a pair of those recruits) I had left/meandered/staggered Vodka Revolutions (opposite Cambridge Plaza Hotel where most attendees for the then Helitech Exhibition used to stay when it was held at IWM) looking for a taxi by Drummer Street bus station (by the future crime scene) forgetting taxis are parked by the Not So Grand Arcade shopping mall.
Bearing in mind that said park has become dangerous over the years...even though recently its been more lights then say 20 years ago when we used to stagger back home from good night on the town and funnily enough it was safer. Anyone doing shopping walkign through there in daytime can see the drunks and druggies sat around a bush / copse of trees in that park as well as young students wanting to drink and do substances in broad daylight. Its always been like this over the decades.
On fri and sat nights over the years, the Redcaps have accompanied the locals from Parkside Police Station to look out for the guys and girls from the then Waterbeach, Bassingbourn, and further afield. They have de camped outside Boots in the centre of town. Even the skycops/SFS from Alconbury/Lakenheath/Mildenhall have accompanied the local constabularly on their patrols in case any airmen/soldier/sailor/contractor gets into hot water!
I'm not overly sure if any Redcaps were present on the night of the incident though tbh, if they allowed leave / night out for the Libyan recruits it could be on the basis of been shadowed/escorted/mothered by say an RSM or WO2/3?
Cheers