Is A Fair Trail Possible After So Long ?

[mikey4444]

I don't want to get into a debate about whether this man is guilty or not but the 60's are a long time ago. After the passage of over 50 years, is it possible for anybody to remember exactly where he was on a certain day ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22806885

[ummmm]

I bet he also regrets saying that victims of sexual assault were a bit naughty in a previous life...

[Ann]

Sqad says //Well........back in the 50's and 60's it was no big deal to put your hand on a girl's thigh and then slip it up OR undo a couple of buttons and slipp your hand in a blouse..........it was called "courting" no big deal and nothing illegal and it was expected that the girl MIGHT resist//
Anone who was "courting" or flirting with a lad in the early 60s knows what Sqad says was true in those days, us girls did resist but soon avoided the lad in question if we didn't want that kind of behaviour with them - we then passed the word around our friends "oh so-and-so? - be careful he's got real wandering hands!" No question of reporting him to the police for a bit of heavy petting as we called it. Nowadays apparently they call it sexual assault, but I can't believe it still doesn't go on ............

[hc4361]

Ann is right. In the same vein, young men knew if a girl was 'up for it' or definitely wasn't. (I say girl meaning young woman, not underage girl.) Most men (or boys) would try their luck with the young woman (or girl) they'd taken out for the evening, wined and dined (half shandies and a bag of chips).

In the 60s, God help the apprentice boy working in a factory full of women - and any newbie had to go through the rites of passage in the workplace, and very humiliating it could be, young man or young woman.

Would the film Rita, Sue and Bob, Too be acceptable today even though it was filmed as recently as the 80s? That was about two schoolgirls having a fling with a middle aged, married man.

In the 50s and 60s it was considered normal for a married man to spend Sunday lunchtime in a pub watching strippers whilst his wife was at home cooking his dinner.

I really cannot convey strongly enough how much times have changed over the last 50 years.

[askyourgran]

Very true hc.

[chrisgel]

Bazile - //If you have assaulted someone , you aint going to forget it , are you ?//
No, but if you haven't assaulted someone then you have no reason to remember the date in question.

[ummmm]

What do you mean you didn't resist? Didn't resist to what?

[Answerprancer]

I think they should pull out all the stops and 'do' any headmaster (still surviving) who administered the cane/strap back in the day.
That'd be fair wouldn't it?

[ummmm]

No...because it was legal to beat kids.