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Manx Newscast: IoM still a safe place despite 'out of the ordinary' stranger attack

Broadcast on:
12 Mar 2025

Police say they want to reassure people that the Isle of Man is a safe place to live and attacks by strangers are ‘extremely rare’.

It follows the sentencing of a 43-year-old man who sexually assaulted a vulnerable teenage girl in Douglas in July last year.

Detective Inspector Nick Haxby, from the Protecting Vulnerable People Investigation Team, speaks to Tessa Hawley: