Benjamin Mendy leaves City | Launches “multi-million-pound” claim against club over unpaid wages (p118)

[JGL07]

Scotland used to have a verdict of not proven. It was abolished in April I think.

O J Simpson was acquitted in a criminal murder case and then found guilty of causing the deaths when the family brought a civil action and fined $33 million.

Not proven was always controversial in Scotland because it suggested that the accused was guilty but that there was insufficient evidence.

There was a sketch on the Scottish comedy show Naked Video (or one of its predecessors) where the accused was in the dock and was asked what was his plea?

He replied: Not Proven.

 

[hilts]

Mendy is a free man that's all that matters now, he will feel pain for how the club just turned its back on him,
for City to rip up his contract looks like an easy way out, we should have backed him until proved otherwise

Mendy walks away a free man but his name is Mud, an innocent man will want justice

Evening Ben

 

[tweety]

Sky Sports news not happy with the outcome

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

The CPS will not be paying anyone millions of pounds in tax payers money.
It's a shambles but not in the way you think.

So who will pay his loss of earnings, missed commercial opportunities, reputational damages if the CPS don’t ?

 

[paulchapo]

I know a woman who works at City and has close dealings with the players. She said from the very start it was a load of rubbish, I think I mentioned it back in the thread before comments were obviously shut down. She said the women all knew one another and Mendy treated them very well spending a fortune on them. Of course that doesn't mean he was innocent but it's now been proved he was. What a terrible ordeal to live with for three years.

 

[meeesh]

We won’t need to discuss the differences between being found not guilty and being actually innocent with Huw Edwards because there’s not going to be a criminal trial.

I genuinely don’t think there’s a single person in this thread who can’t understand that not guilty =/= innocent and that some people will not be taking this verdict to be proof Mendy did nothing wrong.

It’s all performative, pretend bullshit, it’s all because the crime in question is rape, so we have to deal with the usual “when’s international MENS day?!!!” Type posters who like to take a not guilty verdict in a case like this as an excuse to partake in some misogyny and call all the women involved liars and false accusers and demand they are punished - when actually this case showed pretty clearly that false accusations are easily rooted out.

I dread to think how many posts the mods have had to remove in the last few hours.

Starting with your UK /US comparison posts hopefully

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

So who will pay his loss of earnings, missed commercial opportunities, reputational damages if the CPS don’t ?

Nobody unless there’s some sort of insurance that footballers can take out to cover this sort of thing.

 

[hilts]

So who will pay his loss of earnings, missed commercial opportunities, reputational damages if the CPS don’t ?

Nobody probably. It's not like a gross miscarriage of justice. Bad luck or bad choices can mean any of us face a trial.

 

[makinghistory]

Doubt they will be keeping him on as an ambassador regardless of the case outcome :)

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

Nobody unless there’s some sort of insurance that footballers can take out to cover this sort of thing.

Wow that’s disgusting

If the CPS ruin somebody’s life by taking them to trial and they turn out to be innocent they should compensate them.