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Justice for Chedwyn! Utterly shocking he was ever convicted in the first place. Although his team were very confident he was going to be found innocent. I followed the case quite closely the first time round and still don't see how he could have possibly been convicted. The man's lost the best few years of his career and several million pounds. Hopefully he can push on and rebuild his career.

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Agree with that, if innocent the male is tarnished for life. Completely unfair system and the actual real rape victims are very rarely heard. Can't remember the stats but it's a very low Conviction figure.

Anyone accused of rape should be afforded the same anonymity as the victim. If they are found guilty then they lose that right to anonymity.

If found innocent under the current rules then the stigma is still attached. you are never truly innocent.

Unfortunately the counter argument is that by giving the accused anonymity then it prevents/discourages the victim from reporting the crime.

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Someone more legally astute than me may be able to answer this; he's had his reputation smashed and lost an absolute fortune in earnings. Can this be recouped? Or is it just a case of "get on with it"? Legal system fails here imo.

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I can't, unfortunately, say I'm very surprised by this.

On a wider level, everything about the way this trial has been handled is a pretty damning indictment on how we deal with rape cases. On a personal level, that poor woman after everything she's been put through.

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5 minutes ago, MONKMAN said:

Sky sports reporting that he'll be entitled to go down the compensation route. Surely he'll be due a fortune, as he was on 20k a week at the time of his original arrest.

I'm looking at more of a career viewpoint than the financial myself. 

The man had been capped by Wales on a few occasions, and was being linked to bigger clubs at the time of his arrest, I'd argue this undoubtedly has ruined any chance of him competing on such a level again. 

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4 minutes ago, mizfit said:

I'm looking at more of a career viewpoint than the financial myself. 

The man had been capped by Wales on a few occasions, and was being linked to bigger clubs at the time of his arrest, I'd argue this undoubtedly has ruined any chance of him competing on such a level again. 

He should sue his parents for calling him Chedwyn while he's fucking at it.

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3 minutes ago, 1320Lichtie said:

Rico is having a go at Leigh Griffiths on Twitter instead

Eta: and Dean Brett, he's not happy

I think he's blocked me 

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... and on top of everything else we now have to put up with responses at the level of "oh he's been found innocent, therefore the woman was lying", which is no less depressing for its inevitability.

It's still, at least, within this woman's range of options to sue Evans for civil damages on the lesser burden of proof - as Goodwillie and Robertson's victim is doing. But much as I might wish her to do that - or at least, wish that the system was such that she could do so without putting herself through hell again - it'd be very hard to fault her for not doing so.

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Feel sorry for the girl in all of this too. She's being called all the names under the sun but she never said Evans raped her or did I miss that bit ?

He was originally convicted because the prosecution said she was too drunk to consent, so how come his mate was found not guilty originally ?

Using sexual past as evidence is a bit uneasy too. Does that mean porn stars cannot possibly be raped ?

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1 minute ago, Kennboy1978 said:

Feel sorry for the girl in all of this too. She's being called all the names under the sun but she never said Evans raped her or did I miss that bit ?

He was originally convicted because the prosecution said she was too drunk to consent, so how come his mate was found not guilty originally ?

Using sexual past as evidence is a bit uneasy too. Does that mean porn stars cannot possibly be raped ?

Pretty well impossible to get a rape charge to stick if the victim is a prostitute, certainly. This woman wasn't, but she did make the critical mistake of having enjoyed consensual sex on other occasions.

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Although I believe the original conviction was a shambles. Some of the comments on twitter the now are unbelievable. Plenty calling for the girl to be jailed for lying. I'm assuming they haven't followed the case closely enough to know, that she never once actually accused Evans of any crime.

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