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No, but a strong legal team could make all the difference. Seemed to have worked for the scumbags.she could be as strong as geoff capes, it won't have any bearing on whether the judges do right by her.
No, but a strong legal team could make all the difference. Seemed to have worked for the scumbags.she could be as strong as geoff capes, it won't have any bearing on whether the judges do right by her.
No, but a strong legal team could make all the difference. Seemed to have worked for the scumbags.
Good to see their were Israelis outside protesting this farce of a trial.
Hint if somebody goes to a Dr with injuries consistent with rape and is diagnosed with PTSD it's not a case of consensual group sex gone wrong.
The scumbags never saw a courtroom. Maybe someone leant on someone else to secure the bogus retraction and thus their release or maybe they didn't need to because the Cypriot authorities are just that shit as a matter of course; either way it wasn't a strong legal team that got them off the hook.
Eh? It could well have been precisely that. In fact it's not at all unlikely.... either way it wasn't a strong legal team that got them off the hook.
And, you know this as a [Tobyjug] fact?
A strong legal team could well have prevented the scum from facing a court, via legal and/or dodgy methods.
But, as you are such an expert on the case, because you could enlighten us all on your inside knowledge?
But the Israelis had to be absolved of rape first. They would have been question by police with lawyers present who would likely have cordinated their stories and told the boys what to say and not say. Their lawyers would have had nothing to do with the girl's prosecution.It does not seem likely that a system that was even halfway fit for purpose could have allowed the woman's trial to proceed as it did.
Fine, let us say instead that it seems likely that the shitness of the Cypriot police and courts were a bigger factor than the excellence of the alleged rapists' legal counsel.
But it wasn't the no-doubt excellent defence lawyers who decided that the woman needed to be prosecuted for public mischief.It's most likely their legal team was a major factor, because, err, that's their fucking job!
But it wasn't the no-doubt excellent defence lawyers who decided that the woman needed to be prosecuted for public mischief.
That's beside the point. If the boys hadn't walked on the rape (probably because of fancy lawyering) she wouldn't have been charged with anything.But it wasn't the no-doubt excellent defence lawyers who decided that the woman needed to be prosecuted for public mischief.
No. But rape victims are not believed every single day. That's only part of the story. It was the public mischief that really took the fucking cake.Has anyone suggested they were?
No. But rape victims are not believed every single day. That's only part of the story. It was the public mischief that really took the fucking cake.
But, I was only replying to some plank's suggestion that the scum's legal team wasn't involved in getting them off, which they most likely were.
Good to see their were Israelis outside protesting this farce of a trial.
Hint if somebody goes to a Dr with injuries consistent with rape and is diagnosed with PTSD it's not a case of consensual group sex gone wrong.
Oh, scifisam, so sorry to read that, I just can't get my head around how some blokes act, it makes me so fucking angry.
I'm fine, honest. Though I think part of the reason I'm fine is because it really is so common, so it's one of those things you sort of learn to deal with.
And part of the reason is that I didn't report it and suffer in a police cell too (I'm not saying court because the chances of it going to court are low). Cases being taken to court are so low, and conviction rates lower still, that the people who say "but you're letting them go free to rape other women" - if you don't report it - have no idea what they're talking about - odds are, they'll be free to do it again anyway. They might even feel like they've been given permission to do it again.
It's the kind of thing we, as teenagers, all thought might be better for our daughters, but it doesn't seem to be that way.
I'm not advocating women not reporting, obvs. And what has changed is that we have better ways of keeping women safe, to an extent - mobile phones help (though in this case it made it worse ), better street lighting helps, young women seem to be more aware of the need to protect each other, and educating men to try to stop their friends being creeps might help, because most men aren't rapists, but the rapists are enabled by other men turning a blind eye to their mate going off with a woman who is clearly too drunk to be able to consent, that sort of thing.
One chilling line I read recently, though, was that a lot of the preventative measures women take (not clothing, but things like making sure your friends are in a cab home and arrive safely) aren't actually stopping a rape happening, they're just stopping it happening to you. I mean, it's the most we can do, but fuck, it's depressing.
I’m not after a source (for the footage) or anything but what’s the situation/truth with these alleged videos.
I read in some places she was a willing participant, others that it’s fake (what’s circulating).
It seems there is definitely some type of footage, is there an accurate news/legal source as to the actual content?
I think one of the things about the video that the accused claims makes it 'consensual', was that when other men started coming in and watching she asked them to close the door rather than screaming for help.