Ukip: Police investigation into 'brutal assault" at conference is stalled The Ukip inquiry was closed at the end of last year after Michael Greaves, then party secretary, reported to Farage that the woman's story was inconsistent and that if any offence had been committed it was a minor one. Greaves's report concluded that one of the alleged attackers who denied the assault and gave an alibi, "was telling the truth or, at the least, may be telling the truth on the balance of probabilities." He reported that the man had lied about taking medication, but said that "may be explicable on the basis that someone wanting advancement in Ukip might well decide to conceal a medical condition which seriously affects mood and temperament." He also took a statement from Farage's wife, Kirsten, who alleged that on the night the woman had been drinking heavily and was "coming on strongly" to her husband whom she invited to her hotel bedroom. Greaves concluded that the alleged victim's account was "entirely inconsistent" with evidence provided by Mrs Farage and Lisa Duffy, Ukip's party director, whom he described as "honest, accurate and reliable." They had testified that the woman, who Mrs Farage claimed to have seen drink about 10 glasses of wine, had been in "perfectly good spirits" at the next day's conference and did not look "particularly traumatised." Last November, Greaves wrote to the alleged victim inviting her to make a formal complaint to Ukip but advising her that should she do so "other people will have to be involved in the affair." Greaves also suggested that such a complaint "would inevitably find its way into the public domain." The woman "promptly" replied that she did not wish not to take the case further. He also concluded that the allegations amounted to no more than common assault and that the likely sentence would be a conditional discharge, should the Crown Prosecution Service "consider it worthy of mounting a full-scale trial." He said he had not interviewed the alleged victim. "I personally have never spoken to her on the telephone, or face-to-face," said Greaves. If she had made a complaint, I would have interviewed her as part of the process of mounting a disciplinary action. It requires a complaint. He added: "For what it's worth, something may have happened to her, but I don't think for a moment she got the right person. That's my guess. I could be totally wrong, but, until you have a hearing on the matter, you are never going to know. Julian Smith, the Conservative MP for Skipton and Ripon, formally requested that West Midlands Police inquired into the matter.