Isn’t It About Time The Police Showed Some ‘Considerable Restraint’ Too?

From Mark Wadsworth, via email:

Two soldiers back from the Afghanistan frontline were falsely accused of rape by a teenage girl hours before a parade in their honour, a court heard today.

The ‘Mail’ is making a lot of this case because of the Army link, but the worry must be no less for other men accused in this way.

And again, there’s no good reason for it, other than because she could:

Bobbie Martin, 18, was found in a ‘distressed state’ by a friend shortly after the alleged late night attack outside the Royal Hotel in Scarborough. She told police one of the men held her down while the other raped her.

In reality it was all a ‘charade’ and ‘wicked lies’ made for no apparent reason against two honourable men who had done nothing wrong at all, the judge said.

In fact, they weren’t even in the same pub or club:

Returning war heroes Major James Thurstan and Regimental Sergeant Major Edward Pickersgill of the Coldstream Guards – and who are both married – never laid a finger on the jobless teenager.

They were sitting on a bench eating a takeaway meal when the drunken teenager approached them, flirted and exposed herself.

Enough to put you off your pizza…

The court heard they showed ‘considerable restraint’ to humour Martin before walking away and returning to their hotel beds to sleep. It was only when police examined CCTV that detectives realised the soldiers were telling the truth and the attack never happened.

They couldn’t have done this before the arrest?

Judge Stephen Ashurst told her that her lies ‘could have had devastating consequences’ for the soldiers had police not found the video footage.

‘You put on a considerable show and played the role of the victim,’ he said. ‘It was a complete charade.’

That’s because all she needed to do was make the claim, and so set the train in motion.

He said the soldiers had no idea why police arrested them.

Because they are bound to do so by politically-correct ideology and the ‘women must always be believed no matter what’ protocols.

Of course, the usual excuses are trotted out:

Jonathan Devlin, defending, said: ‘Drink clearly played a part. The state of her intoxication was commented on by the two men who had the misfortune to come across her.’ A ‘traumatic’ childhood incident may have contributed, he added.

Demon drink and a lousy life – are they now an excuse for anything?