Accused rapist Ched Evans to be released from prison

[Wilf]

Sponsor drops out due to evans signing
Chesterfield sponsor pulls out in wake of Ched Evans signing

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Chesterfield hold £20 a pop raffle and fake the result:

Chesterfield apologise to fans after winning raffle entry is faked

Chesterfield have apologised to fans after the winning entry in a competition to follow the team on their pre-season tour of Hungary was faked.

Supporters of the League One club had been invited to enter a £20 raffle.

"Surrey-based Spireite James Higgins" was declared the winner but, in an online article later deleted, the club said he had been too ill to travel...

the "winning entry was not legitimate" and the information supplied to the club's communications department had "clearly been falsified".

Stay classy.

 

[hash tag]

Oxford United 1-1 Chesterfield

Quelle surprise "Evans' every touch at the Kassam Stadium was jeered by Oxford supporters"

 

[William of Walworth]

Sponsor drops out due to evans signing
Chesterfield sponsor pulls out in wake of Ched Evans signing

I wasn't even aware that the bastard had been signed again .

I'm Oxford. I now wish I'd been at this game -- I'd have been joined in the Yellows' abuse of the twat, without doubt

 

[William of Walworth]

If I'd been an Oxford defender, I'd have got myself sent off for stopping him scoring too

Contact sport, football. Stretchers available

 

[hash tag]

From what I can gather, he has been doing Ok at Chesterfield, but now, back in court then
Ched Evans trial to hear evidence from alleged rape victim

 

[Teaboy]

From what I can gather, he has been doing Ok at Chesterfield, but now, back in court then
Ched Evans trial to hear evidence from alleged rape victim

I like the way the press have to pretend the first trial never happened.

 

[Ranbay]

There is loads of Vans outside the court all day every day.... two weeks more of this shit.

 

[D'wards]

Footballer Ched Evans cleared of rape in retrial

 

[danny la rouge]

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[Teaboy]

I had a bad feeling this would happen. He's still guilty as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Mation]

This is appalling

 

[dessiato]

Footballer Ched Evans cleared of rape in retrial

Just been reading this.

I'm not convinced that allowing previous partners of the girl is acceptable. The whole thing feels wrong.

What happens now? Who's going to sign him? How's he going to get his life back to what it was?

 

[SqueakyBumTime]

Who's going to sign him?

He was signed by Chesterfield in the closed season

 

[crossthebreeze]

The poor woman, she's been treated appallingly. How the hell is it legal for her ex partners to be called as defence witnesses????

 

[Spymaster]

I'm not convinced that allowing previous partners of the girl is acceptable.

The questions are; why was it allowed, what did they say, and why did the jury acquit him?

 

[D'wards]

What happens now? Who's going to sign him? How's he going to get his life back to what it was?

I should imagine he'll be signed by a club, possibly this weekend.

Edit: Just seen post about him signed by Chesterfield - although i think a bigger club will take him now.

 

[Sprocket.]

He could be back playing for Wales in the very near future!

 

[Athos]

The questions are; why was it allowed, what did they say, and why did the jury acquit him?

It does seem a backwards step to effective allow a woman's past sex life to come under such scrutiny. I can only imagine that they had something very specific to say about a tendency to forget sex to which she had consented. That's the only thing which could, at a push, be sufficient relevant to allow the defence to call them.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The only new evidence was, 'She's a slag' and it was presented by people being offered £50,000 to do so.

British Justice

 

[SqueakyBumTime]

The poor woman, she's been treated appallingly. How the hell is it legal for her ex partners to be called as defence witnesses????

Perhaps she has a history of crying rape or something. One would hope there was compelling evidence in order for the original verdict to be quashed.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It does seem a backwards step to effective allow a woman's past sex life to come under such scrutiny. I can only imagine that they had something very specific to say about a tendency to forget sex to which she had consented. That's the only thing which could, at a push, be sufficient relevant to allow the defence to call them.

Presented by people who forgot to mention it until £50k was up for grabs.

 

[Athos]

Presented by people who forgot to mention it until £50k was up for grabs.

Yeah, that reeks.

 

[Sprocket.]

IMO this has taken rape cases back to the seventies when women were seen as the villains and their characters were on trial.

 

[D'wards]

It does seem a backwards step to effective allow a woman's past sex life to come under such scrutiny. I can only imagine that they had something very specific to say about a tendency to forget sex to which she had consented. That's the only thing which could, at a push, be sufficient relevant to allow the defence to call them.

I was thinking this. Perhaps she has a history of group sex - i dunno, pure speculation.

 

[Looby]

Perhaps she has a history of crying rape or something. One would hope there was compelling evidence in order for the original verdict to be quashed.

She didn't 'cry rape'

I was thinking this. Perhaps she has a history of group sex - i dunno, pure speculation.

So. Does a history of enjoying group sex make you more deserving of rape?

 

[editor]

Given the verdict here, I'd be obliged if posters trod warily.

 

[crossthebreeze]

The questions are; why was it allowed, what did they say, and why did the jury acquit him?

The report says they gave "explicit evidence about her sex life". However his lawyers managed to get around this, this crosses a line or legal protection for rape victims, and its absolutely outrageous that it was allowed whatever they actually said. Other grounds may or may not have been found for his aquittal, but firstly this plays to any sexist/misogynistic or conservative attitudes that jury members may have, and secondly it may have blurred the legal line (ie if they testified she had consented to a similar sexual scenario before with other partners, legally every partner has to get consent every time, but mentioning past sexual history may blur this legal fact in the minds of the jury). Remember she had no recall of the night in question, it was police who bought the case, so any evidence about her trustworthiness is irrelevant.

I'm very worried that this will set some sort of precedent (either legally or morally) and that rape victims will be less protected, and less likely to make complaints.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Perhaps she has a history of crying rape or something.

Yes.

 

[crossthebreeze]

Perhaps she has a history of crying rape or something. One would hope there was compelling evidence in order for the original verdict to be quashed.

She didn't make the complaint of rape. She made a complaint that her drink may have been spiked. The police pursued a rape charge arising from their investigations. Your phrasing is disgusting. Women do not "cry rape".