Ched Evans - serious injury

Prestwich_Blue said:
I wouldn't read too much into the retrial decision. A barrister friend I was talking to recently told me that the CPS are sending rape/sexual assault cases for trial on the flimsiest prosecution evidence, which is well below the threshold they would apply to other cases not involving sexual offences.

So in other words it's a political decision that they will actively pursue cases of this nature even if they don't seriously believe there's a possibility of a conviction, just so that they can say they're taking rape accusations more seriously.

Given Evans' profile, a retrial was always going to be on the cards.
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Not entirely surprising but I do hope your friend is wrong because that would serve absolutely nobody's interests.

On the Evans case, given the original verdict, the CPS might well have had had reasonable grounds for expecting a 50% chance of conviction. (Even though now overturned.) I believe 50% is their normal yardstick although I could be wrong.
 
Tanzeylee said:
A "low life piece of human shit" for shagging a consenting drunk girl, what a bizarre statement.
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Aye. Single lad meets girl in bar takes home and both have a good shag. If only it was like that eh?

I'm still amazed how his bird and father in law think he's a stand up guy.
 
dennishasdoneit said:
Sorry pal.don't agree .Evans has done fuck all wrong.not legally,barelying wrong morally.
Riggs is a **** Evans? What's he actually done wrong? Nowt.
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Serious question

If your daughter came home and said "Dad, this is what my boyfriend did last night" then told the whole story

Would you say "Oh love he's done nowt wrong, Or would you think he was a ****?
 
It seemed pretty obvious looking at the available evidence first time round that at the very least there was reasonable doubt. Fucking scary that he was convicted at all and as someone else said, most people wouldn't have had the financial clout to get their name cleared and would just have had to accept living the rest of their life as a convicted rapist. It is incredibly sad that many rapes must go unpunished, to some extent that is inevitable when often it will be a crime that more or less boils down to one person's word against another but the CPS need to get a grip and stop trying to undermine the principle of the presumption of innocence.
 
Its easy to forget with all the rape allegations that he went out on the pull and had a shag in rhyll. If this isn't an offence it should be.
 
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