What Happened Next?

[lynbrown]

Last week the DM ran a story about a man walking through a tube station, being accused of sexually assaulting a woman also walking through. From CCTV, it was obvious no such thing happened, yet the man was charged by police. What happened next?

[Peter Pedant]

hi eddie
your toot was tippling when he said that - gin I think

Justice like the ritx hotel is open to all ....

{ I thought it was 'courts' ]

honestly you go into debt
[ costs are very rarely for the defence - ]
you go to your ex wife and say you are in a bit of bother
borrow from your parents
go to the bank manager ....

[ you are not gonna go all blustery and say "THIS is not Beitissh justice!" because .... um ...... it is ]

and here and here - is an example of a solicitors who go under because they cant afford to defend an action for malpractice - just to cheer you up

Milne and Lyal of Bridport go under after admitting a hopeless conflict of interest in selling punters their own financial products - Mrs Mopp the wife of one of the partners seems also to have been practising as a lawyer

http://www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/8738920.Bridport__Solicitors_probed_after_Panorma_tv_programme/

but as you can see from the article if they do that
then they arent lawyers anymore - OK for Mr White aged 73 but not OK if you are younger and have a mortgage

O they had previous form - I was the complainant in a previous case but then they grew to be sixth in turn over for that type of product

[EDDIE51]

My parents are long since departed, credit rating at rock bottom, no house as security we are council tenants . No work , pension credit only. ( No hope?)
If it came to it I would conduct my own defence, they can't take what I haven't got in the first place. Would there be a chance of a solicitor working 'pro bono' ( or whatever the term is) in a case as obviously flawed as this one?

[wolf63]

If they was supposedly innocent until proved guilty then the CPS must have thought that they had evidence. Surely analysing the video evidence properly would have shown nothing happened. Her story was highly improbable too.

I feel that many men are finding themselves in sex related crimes. A drunk guy can find himself on the sex offenders register for something that would have earned him being whacked by a heavy handbag.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Good question. Thanks for the clarification, Peter.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"Lucid response" would have been between than "clarification".

[vetuste_ennemi]

Would have been BETTER than...

[vetuste_ennemi]

Reverts to watching episodes of The Chase.

[vetuste_ennemi]

It's Katie Melua: Being close to crazy.

[EDDIE51]

^ I would not have known her if I had fallen over her , let alone just walked past her in a rail station.

[EDDIE51]

^^ Katie Melua is just 32 according to Google. The woman in the incident was ' in her 60 s' if the read the link!

[aelmpvw]

can't find any reference to katie melua being an actress either

[fiction-factory]

It wasn't Katie Melua= I think V-E only mentioned her because she sand the Closest Thing to Crazy - which was either a reference to Peter Pedant or the actress I think.
It was definitely not KM- it was an actress from film/TV and a well known radio drama

[naomi24]

She should be named and prosecuted.

[mikey4444]

As far as I can see, the CPS is still saying that the case was properly brought, which plainly isn't so. I would have thought this chap has a case to bring of wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution.

[Togo]

//Instead of simply bringing to court cases for which there is no evidence, the Crown Prosecution Service has become still more progressive and will now bring cases to court when there is clear evidence that the supposed crime has not been committed at all. So it was that the artist Mark Pearson found himself in court accused of sexually assaulting an actress at Waterloo station - as he walked past her.
The crime he was accused of wasn't just a grope but-----wait for it-----'penetration', which he supposedly effected in half a second. Asked in court how this assault could have been perpetrated in so short a time the actress said Mr Pearson must have been 'practising'. But better still the CPS had excellent CCTV footage that showed clearly no assault had taken place. But Mr Pearson was still prosecuted --and cleared immediately by a jury with rather more sense and less politically correct fervour than the CPS boss Alison Saunders.//
With thanks to Rod Liddle.

[hc4361]

Is that actress in the link an award winning one, though? Not as far as I know.

[mikey4444]

Togo...if all that is true, then lets hope this chap sees a good lawyer and let rip the dogs of war !

[Svejk]

As I suggested on the Rolf Harris thread, there's something seriously amiss with the police/cps where (alleged) sex crimes are concerned. Apart from the nightmare the accused get caught up in, it will end up costing us all a fortune in compensation down the line.

[Togo]

mikey the video of the alleged assault has been available on the internet for some time. The CPS actually presented a slowed down version to make it appear that the guy accused had 'more time'. Scandalous. Do you trust the CPS or indeed our 'new model police force'?