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But Carol Holmes recognised the smartly dressed young man right away: Three weeks earlier, he’d held a gun to her back and raped her in her Manhattan apartment. The police soon had him in custody, but her relief was short-lived. Forty-five minutes later, 19-year-old Manuel Aryee, the son of a Ghanaian diplomat, claimed diplomatic immunity — and walked out, free. “For all I know,” Holmes told People magazine, “he could have been going to a French restaurant for dinner.” - http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/immunity-is-not-impunity/