I’ve been waiting for a verdict to say anything but the reporting on this case has been absolutely disgusting. Headline after headline about her telling lies, having a financial motive to lie, making false allegations, being a liar, lying lying liar who lies. It was gross.
I can’t imagine what it was like for the woman who was raped and then put on trial for making a police report about the man who raped her. Then she had to see these reports come out day after day after being relentless slammed by the defence lawyer all day in court.
The man’s name is still being withheld but he has been found guilty by a jury.
A guilty verdict is unusual in rape cases so clearly the jury heard something more than the court reporters were telling us.
She did not lie. She told the truth. She was raped and the man she reported to police was the man who raped her.
I’m doing a much more detailed analysis of the reporting on this case, which I’ll on my Substack in the next few days (link in bio) but the TL;DR: almost every journalist involved in this reporting should be ashamed of themselves.
But I bet they’re not.
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