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A 14-year-old schoolboy has been arrested and questioned by detectives after a woman says she was raped in the male toilets of a city's popular nightclub.
But when the victim's friends raised the alarm and security found them in a toilet cubicle - they simply walked out and left her with her alleged attacker, a licencing hearing was told.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) confirm the teenager was later held after the alleged sex attack at the Bloom nightclub, in Manchester's gay village, in the early hours of Wednesday, June 29.
GMP stated that the female customer and her friends reported being approached by a teenager offering to sell them drugs at around 4.15 am and he entered the male toilets with her.
One friend claimed security staff said 'have a good one mate' to the teenager as he entered the male toilets with the woman, according to a police report.
A woman was allegedly raped by a teenage boy at Bloom nightclub in Manchester's gay village in the early hours of the morning
It is then alleged when alone with the woman, the teenage boy pounced on her and raped inside one of the men's toilet cubicles.
The woman is said to have texted her friends asking for help around twenty minutes later, who then alerted club staff.
A Manchester City Council licencing hearing heard allegations a male bouncer entered the toilets, knocked on the cubicle and realising there were two people inside allowed them to remain, and simply left.
A teenager was located and detained outside the club but was allowed to leave when they were told the victim did not want the police called.
But a police
