UK: Law graduate found guilty of falsely accusing former boyfriend of rape

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-06-06 18:22

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'A law graduate faces jail after being found guilty of falsely accusing her former boyfriend of a series of rapes and assaults as an excuse for doing poorly in her barrister training.

The allegations made by Rhiannon Brooker meant Paul Fensome was arrested, charged and held in prison for 37 days.

Following an 11-week trial, the jury of 10 men and two women at Bristol crown court on Thursday found Brooker, who has an eight-month-old child, guilty of perverting the course of justice. She was given bail but could be jailed when she is sentenced later this month.

The campaign group Women Against Rape (War), which has supported Brooker, 30, claimed the police and Crown Prosecution Service put more resources into such cases than into investigating violent crimes including rape.

A War spokesperson said the prosecution of Brooker was "completely disproportionate", adding: "Time and again we see police resources diverted from rape and put into prosecuting women instead."
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The jury heard that Brooker, who was living in south Gloucestershire, told fellow students she had been assaulted and raped. She also claimed Fensome had punched her in the ribs when she was pregnant, causing her to lose the baby.

She finally went to the police and made allegations against Fensome. But alibis, evidence from Fensome's phone and his work shift patterns undermined or disproved her accounts. Some of her injuries were judged to have been self-inflicted and the police discontinued their investigations into Fensome and turned their attention on Brooker.'

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Gotta love how the Guardian has no comments section! Typical for left-wing media.

'A War spokesperson said the prosecution of Brooker was "completely disproportionate", adding: "Time and again we see police resources diverted from rape and put into prosecuting women instead."'

I nearly laughed out loud when I read that. If this were true, then why do men spend far more time in prison when falsely accused of rape, than women for falsely accusing men of rape? I'd love to see the radfem try to explain her way out of that one.

'War argues that such prosecutions can deter women from reporting rape and domestic abuse. The spokesperson said: "We must bring an end to these witch hunts. If the authorities want to turn the clock back and put women off from coming forward, prosecutions like this are a very effective deterrent."'

False accusations distract police attention and resources away from where it is needed, examining cases of real instances of rape. I don't understand why that is hard for them to grasp. In addition to this, why should rape be the one crime where falsely accusing someone of said crime would not be an indictable offense? If you do that for one crime, you have to do it for all crimes. And then, everyone is at the mercy of everyone else. I guess fembots, who are overwhelmingly communists, would be fine with that.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Sun, 2014-06-08 20:50