Man's Life Destroyed By 'preposterous' Sexual Assault Charge

[Coss]

A walk through one of the busiest train stations in the UK changed Mark Pearson's life forever.

 

It took him just half a second to pass an award-winning actress in her 60s but that was enough for prosecutors to charge with him sexual assault.

 

When the case finally got to court, a jury needed only 90 minutes to reject the allegations, but by then the damage had been done to Pearson, a 51-year-old artist and picture framer.

 

It was claimed he assaulted the TV, theatre and radio actress penetratively for "two or three seconds" as he walked past her at London's Waterloo station, before landing a heavy blow to her left shoulder as he pushed past her, The Telegraph reported.

 

CCTV footage could not establish if Pearson and the woman, who can not be named for legal reasons, made physical contact as they walked quickly past each other. A forensic expert for the defence told Blackfriars Crown Court Pearson had passed the actress in half a second, saying any assault was a logistical impossibility.

 

Specialist CCTV forensic expert Jacob Blythe showed Pearson was carrying a newspaper in his left hand - the one he was alleged to have used in the assault​ - and holding his bag in his right.

 

The Telegraph said the case raised more questions about the decision-making in sexual assault cases by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), in particular pressing ahead with improperly investigated prosecutions with gaping holes in the evidence.

 

In Pearson's case, the woman failed to pick him out of an identity parade, there was no forensic evidence, and there were no witnesses despite the train station being crowded with commuters.

 

The actress was wearing a coat and jacket and a thin dress over "training pants" following a yoga class.

 

The CPS also produced the CCTV footage during the three-day court hearing last week at half its normal speed - a critical change, given the case rested on whether Pearson had enough time to commit the assault.

 

"They said they did it for technical reasons; what they were we weren't told," Pearson said.

 

The CPS had the CCTV evidence right from the start, and from it could have realised the complainant's statement was "total crap" and dismissed the case, he said.

 

He believed the CPS was overly keen to get convictions at all costs, after high-profile mistakes in cases such as those involving broadcasting personalities Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris.

 

more at http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/76770117/mans-life-destroyed-by-preposterous-sexual-assault-charge

[Mekong]

Why can the alleged victim "Not be named for legal reasons" whereas a guy who has been proven innocent has his name plastered all over the press, double standards me thinks.

[Dexi]

Exactly.Seems now if you are male you are presumed guilty and have to prove innocence.Where the accusations are obviously rubbish the accuser should be charged with wasting police time.

[Mekong]

Precisely Dexi

 

There is this stupid assumption of "No Smoke Without Fire" and it does not matter how far below the parapets one is positioned, some of the shit thrown sticks.

 

I am all for sexual equality, if my check bin is THB3000 I have no problem with her coughing up THB1500, same as it he accuser can have animosity so should not the accused. I know personally of two good guys who's lifes have been ruined by false accusations, these were not celebrities they were friends of mine, lads I knew since they were 5 years old, remember the days, swinging on a rope on a tree, falling into the brook and getting covered in mud, coming home to face the wrath of mom coz ya had torn ya kecks. Biggest crime ever guilty off was smashing my "Spring Loaded Subbuteo Keeper" for pulling off a "Super Save" Forgave him for than he nicked me a new one the following week. The Purloining of a Spring Loaded Subbuteo Goalie from woolies was less of a crime in my eyes in them days.

 

Unfortunately UK Society has been loaded against the male of the species since pre-dawn era, well OK since the first days I got amy first erection and know what to do with it, a female should be allowed to dress up nice maybe even sexy, but to claim "Sexual Assault" just because a guy looked at her in what she deems a threatening way is a load of hogwash.

 

There are more pressing reasons why I chose to walk out on the UK, but in all honesty this shit does not want me to go back

[Coss]

It's not just the UK, it's everywhere in the "Enlightened" world.

 

When asked why I chose to up stix and go to Laos, I often say "because I'm tired of being the enemy".

 

In NZ the feminazis still trot out the statistic that 1 in 4 men are rapists, despite the study, on which they base this claim, doesn't say that, and was discredited for other reasons many times.

 

I have female relations, who were right in the feminist movement in the '70s and are now in their dotage, who often find a man to blame, for anything. i.e. Mrs so and so keeps a nice house, 'That's cause her (now dead) husband was an utter utter bastard'.

 

SEA, sometimes paradise is where you find it.

[Vintage_Kwai]

SEA, sometimes paradise is where you find it.

Amen.