" but their careers have probably been ruined by what the judge and jury believe were untruths."
Doubtful - they'll probably end up as interviewers on chat shows !
Their careers would not have been ruined, or even affected had they not behaved as they did - there have been a number of celebrity cases where things have just moved on
In rape trials, the woman's sexual history is displayed for the world to see, where the man's is displayed as 'being a man' - often a cause for admiration - much in evidence in the many thousand of abusive tweets that have now appeared
If this trial has done anything it has raised the question of how rape trials are conduvcted
The jury was made up of eight men and three women - highly debatable in a heavily misogynistic society
It is being suggested that these trials be conducted by a permanent specialist tribunal in camera rather than a randomly selected jury
Makes sense to me.
Whatever the outcome of all this (it has just started rather than ended), something has to be done to redress the percentage of reported rapes and number of convictions of the few that do reach trial
The only person to have come out of this with a shred of dignity is the woman herself - wonder what would have happened if that had been taken into consideration by the jury!
It speaks volumes to me
Jim Carroll