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Rape trial falls apart after accuser’s 40,000 texts are revealed
New York Post ^ | December 16, 2017 | Victoria Craw

Posted on 12/16/2017 4:46:11 PM PST by Mr.Unique

A student has described going through “mental torture” after a rape case against him was thrown out in court because police had failed to hand over more than 40,000 messages from his accuser.

Liam Allan, 22, faced up to ten years in jail charged with six counts of rape and six counts of sexual assault against a young woman over a 14-month period that began when he was 19.

The criminology student at Greenwich University had spent nearly two years on bail and three days in Croydon Crown Court when the trial was stopped in a dramatic fashion after it emerged police officers had failed to hand over evidence that proved his innocence.

The alleged victim had claimed she did not enjoy sex, while Mr Allan claimed it was consensual and she was acting maliciously because he refused to see her after he returned to university.

Now, the judge has called for an inquiry at the “very highest level” to understand why police failed to hand over critical evidence including 40,000 messages from the accuser to Mr Allan and friends.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; fakerape; localnews; london; rape; womendontlie
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To: rlmorel
Sometime these slimes carry their beds with them wherever they go.


21 posted on 12/16/2017 5:03:17 PM PST by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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To: elteemike

Which is why prosecutors should be barred from higher office.


22 posted on 12/16/2017 5:04:07 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: iowamark

“Having sex with a crazy woman is never a good idea, as this man learned.”

The concept that women are more empathic and virtuous than men is absurd and patently false. The accuser should go to jail, but she likely won’t. They’ll claim she’s mentally ill, and she’ll get treatment without jail time.


23 posted on 12/16/2017 5:05:59 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: gaijin
"My dear Lovey, where, pray tell, have you BEAN..?"

The guy is a young Thurston Howell. Or maybe like the rich guy Dan Akroyd character in Trading Places:

ZACTLY the kind of straight-laced, priveleged honkey THE SYSTEM hungers to distroy.

This one was EASY.

The only way he could enhance his Target Quals would be to, say, carry a glass of milk and a Bible.

24 posted on 12/16/2017 5:06:15 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Mr.Unique

40,000 messages over 14 months. That’s almost 100 messages/day. Help me out here, is that typical these days?


25 posted on 12/16/2017 5:06:38 PM PST by Scooter100
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To: rolling_stone
so will they prosecute the false accuser?

Since this happened in London, England, and not in the United States, there is a decent chance she will be prosecuted.

26 posted on 12/16/2017 5:09:34 PM PST by TChad
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To: Wolfie

They believed Moore’s accusers the moment the allegations were made without any objective proof, without any knowledge of who the accusers really were, whether they had an axe to grind (we know a couple of the more serious ones did), and whether their were fabrications (the infamous yearbook). They went after Moore because he was easy to demonize, was already hated by the left for his actions as a judge, and by the GOPe for challenging their chosen candidate.


27 posted on 12/16/2017 5:10:25 PM PST by littleharbour
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To: C210N

And celebrated for it, even after their perfidy is revealed.

That is a disturbing development.


28 posted on 12/16/2017 5:10:28 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Mr.Unique
Something doesn’t add up.

The messages showed how she had continually messaged Mr Allan for “casual sex”, said how much she enjoyed it and discussed fantasies of violent sex and rape, The Times reports.

Wouldn’t he have already known about these messages? She sent them to him. Why didn’t he present his copies?

29 posted on 12/16/2017 5:12:15 PM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: Lurker
"Because nothing ever happens to them."

I'm racked with guilt if I inadvertently do something to hurt someone else. How do you deliberately sit on evidence so someone's life is utterly destroyed, particularly when you're in "law enforcement"?

30 posted on 12/16/2017 5:12:32 PM PST by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: Mr.Unique

“It appears the officer in the case has not reviewed the disk, which is quite appalling.”

Speaking later, he said detectives had previously told him the sexual messages were “too personal” to share.”

This is pure bull!
In this case there is no such thing as “sexual messages too personal to share”

I hope he’s allowed to sue the cops for withholding evidence.


31 posted on 12/16/2017 5:13:58 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Mr.Unique

Just another reason for young men and young women to not engage in intercourses outside of the bonds of marriage


32 posted on 12/16/2017 5:14:08 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: iowamark

Isn’t that the truth?


33 posted on 12/16/2017 5:14:10 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: rolling_stone

when victims, witnesses, cops and DAs lie or withhold evidence they should be imprisoned for the length of time the accused would have served if found guilty, up to an including the death penalty.


34 posted on 12/16/2017 5:16:54 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: elteemike

Anybody want to place bets that a cop or two was boning the lass?


35 posted on 12/16/2017 5:20:17 PM PST by healy61
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To: Scooter100

I think they have to include incoming spam messages too case I can’t figure out how they do it.


36 posted on 12/16/2017 5:20:54 PM PST by Fhios (1987: Where's Waldo -- 2017: Where's Jeff Sessions.)
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To: Lurker

“How do buttholes like this sleep at night?“

Because nothing ever happens to them.

L”

It’s because when you’re on the side of “right” and the bad guys are always the accused on the dark side you believe in your moral superiority and the ends justify any means to confirm your presumption in the accused’s guilt. Society basically has little trouble with this notion.


37 posted on 12/16/2017 5:21:59 PM PST by Lent
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To: BykrBayb
“Why didn’t he present his copies?”

Maybe he didn't keep them. This would explain why his defense wanted the messages and phone records released: “Mr Allan’s lawyers had already sought access to the accusers’s telephone records and messages but their requests were denied on the basis there was nothing of interest in them.”

38 posted on 12/16/2017 5:22:14 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Lent

“Society basically has little trouble with this notion.”

The veneer of society is quite thin.


39 posted on 12/16/2017 5:23:27 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: BykrBayb

“Wouldn’t he have already known about these messages? She sent them to him. Why didn’t he present his copies? “

Sometimes the police just won’t look at them. The Duke lacrosse players were never once interrogated after they were arrested. And the DA refused to receive any statements from them.

Doing so would have immediately shown proof of their innocence, so the DA and police had to avoid all of it.


40 posted on 12/16/2017 5:25:00 PM PST by CondorFlight
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