It must be an eerie feeling to exist but not to be seen. Evelyn Driver, alleged victim of a rape, must one day tell us how it feels to be searched by the police on two occasions and be found untraceable. And this, even though her contact details have remained unchanged ever since she first got in touch with them just after her alleged rape.

We first learn of the predicament of the police two weeks ago, when the police told the Court that the main witness - and victim - in an alleged rape case that purportedly happened in 2003, was untraceable. L?express published the court proceedings in its issue of Thursday January 11th. According to the police, Mrs Driver had disappeared into thin air; she simply could not be found. It is to be noted that the defence is asking that the case be dismissed because of the delay in the court process.

I think the counsel for the prosecution must have found this hard to believe because he is quoted as saying ? most ironically I thought ? that he found it surprising that in such a small country, a witness to a case of rape, where she herself is the purported victim, could not be found.

As you and I were reading this story in the papers, so was the untraceable witness. She was probably pinching herself to check whether she was dreaming. Because you see, she claims that the police had never sent her any summons to appear before Court. She says she did not know that the Court case was to be discussed on that particular day because no one had deemed it appropriate to inform and summon her. But oh mystery, the witness? version contradicts strongly that of the police.

The case was again heard last Friday and the police came back to inform the Court that Mrs Driver was still nowhere to be found. And this, despite the fact that the woman in question had already contacted the press to let it be known that she was still alive and kicking and had not changed her contact details since the last time the police got in touch with her. And next thing we know, Mrs Driver gets in touch with our journalist again and expresses her fury? and frustration at her involuntary invisible state.

She insists, in our issue of Tuesday 24th January, that the police had made no attempt to get in touch with her yet again.

Now somebody is clearly lying in this story.