Hint: Better Not Listen To Rap Music....

Former Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy swapped 'misogynistic' messages with his 'friend and fixer' referring to young women who came to his parties as 'b******', it can be revealed today.

...if you consider this a 'revelation'.

The French World Cup winner exchanged the text messages with Louis Saha Matturie, 42, who has been now cleared of rape and sexual assault charges after a police investigation lasting almost three years. The messages were never produced to juries at three separate trials involving 28-year-old Mr Mendy and Mr Matturie over allegations of sex attacks at parties held in the millionaire footballer's £2.2million Cheshire mansion and at Mr Matturie's flat in Salford.

For good reason? Well… 

They were ruled inadmissible after defence lawyers successfully argued that they would be prejudicial.

At the time, Judge Everett said all 'right-thinking' people would disapprove of the messages, which did the defendants 'no credit.' But he stressed that the issue in the trial was not 'whether they had entrenched views about sex' but whether the women had consented to sex. As a result, he ruled that they should not be shown to the jury.

Looks like he was right. So little point in anyone getting their knickers in a twist over them now, surely? 

Predators Usually Have To Work A Lot Harder For Prey...

Lisa Wilding KC, defending Matturie, suggested what happened between them was, “consensual, willing and enthusiastic” sex, not rape.

Sure, sure. Is there any proof of th...

Oh, 

The woman denied this, claiming the incident left her feeling “shamed and disgusted”. Wilding continued: “When you and he had sex ... you and he filmed that sex. You know that you and he had a discussion beforehand, words to the effect: ‘Let’s make our own little movie’.”

The witness replied: “No. I wouldn’t do that.” Wilding said: “He had his phone right in front of you all the time you and he were having sex.”

The woman replied: “I was not aware of that.” Wilding said: “You looked directly at the camera more than once, enjoying what you were doing?” The woman, who became tearful, replied: “No.”

As I - and other - said over at Tim Worstall's post on this, how on earth did the CPS overlook this video? 

The defence barrister said the woman would be asked to look at some images. The hearing was then adjourned and when court resumed after lunch, Timothy Cray KC, prosecuting, told the court that the prosecution was not now seeking guilty verdicts on alleged sexual offences involving the 19-year-old complainant.

Whoops! 

Prosecutors have alleged Mendy is a “predator”.

Wow, with a hit rate better than that of the black footed cat! Of course, mice don't waltz into its jaws, do they? 

And it seems the CPS didn't pick any winners out of the rest of the bunch either.... 

Sorry, Doesn't Pass The Smell Test...

A driver was raped after she stopped to check if a child was safe after spotting an empty car seat in a layby, police have said.

Wait, what? I've lost count of the times I've seen dumped car seats, prams, etc by the side of the road. Never once occured to me to stop and check for a baby in the vicinity! 

Thames Valley police said the woman was raped in a layby on the A4 in Thatcham, Berkshire, opposite the junction with Cox’s Lane, in an attack late on 16 August.

Let's have a look at this layby, shall we? 

Hmm...unlit, right next to a clump to woodland...no, even if I had the reflexes of a F1 driver to spot the article and make the decision to stop in time, I wouldn't!

The force, whose officers were called at around midnight, said it is now investigating whether the empty car seat was used to the lure the victim (sic) who had been driving on the A4 before she was attacked.

Nope! Sorry! 

Or To Put It Another Way....

"Liar, liar, panties on fire!" 

Research by Rape Crisis and Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, finds that jurors often accept rape myths and thus acquit rapists who are in fact guilty. 66% of jurors do not understand judges’ legal directions which attempt to dispel rape myths, but fail. Jurors need proper rape myth training prior to and throughout trials.

Thomas is scathing about these claims in a paper published this month in Criminal Law Review:

At the time of the petition there had been no research in England and Wales with real jurors on the issue of whether they accepted commonly held rape myths or understood judges’ directions on such myths. This meant that the petition’s claim that research showed jurors accepted commonly held rape myths and did not understood judges’ directions on these myths could not have been correct.

Couldn't be clearer, could it? 

So...how did the State's well-paid servants get it so wrong? Well, the usual way. By stacking the deck to give the answer they wanted.

The answer, she explains, is that public opinion polls and mock jury research rely on people who have volunteered to take part.

The single-issue loons and nutter who take an interest in these things. In other words. 

By contrast, 87% of those who served on juries had told Thomas, in earlier research, that they would never have volunteered to do so.

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics, it's said. We can add to that 'and then there's government research'.

H/T: BarristerBlog via Twitter

'Rare Case' No 4873258921586

Adam Birkby, for Hoynes, said she now accepts full responsibility and wants to make “sincere apologies” to both implicated drivers and to the police.

Mr Birkby pointed to a psychiatric report which stated that her false allegations may have been an unconscious management of a depressive illness from which she suffered since a relationship break-up in 2018.

“Ultimately, it’s been a tragedy for all concerned, particularly the two men,” added Mr Birkby.

Jailing her for 20-months, Judge James Adkin said much effort went in to proving her “wicked complaint” was, “ a complete fabrication”, impacting heavily on both men suspected and on policing resources.

Yeah, it's nice you think of police resources, but if they didn't spend so much time investigating obviously nonsense cases, maybe it wouldn't cost so much?

#IBelieveHer Suffers Another Crushing Defeat...

Miss Griffiths said the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had embellished her account to police and lied in her statement.

Teesside Crown Court was told that she denied she had been in a sexual relationship with anyone else at the time the incident was said to have taken place. But she later admitted under cross-examination that she had exchanged WhatsApp messages with a friend that showed otherwise.

And that, harridans, is why demands for phone access need to be made.

Because if not for this, it's possible this innocent man would have been railroaded by a vindictive woman. With the full connivance of the State's agents:

It also emerged that the complainant had admitted in a police interview that she embellished her account of the first time she slept with Mr Sewell.

One has to ask why the CPS pressed ahead. And why they aren't the ones considering action:

Solicitors for the 40-year-old hospital consultant said they were considering taking out a private prosecution against the woman 'for perverting the course of justice'.

But then, we all know why don't we, reader? It's the poisonous legacy of Starmer and Saunders. And until the CPS has been scoured clean of their acolytes, we will see more cases like this one.