You and Cuckster might mock me, but a woman needs to be treated properly. This involves a certain amount of courting such as cinema and a reasonably priced meal. Then permission from her father to marry the girl. Then marriage. The first act ought to happen with the lights off too and involve a lot of apologising.

I have to say, I'm really excited about the prospect.

Quite, and that involves seeing her picture on crimewatch in five years time.

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I think in terms of rape offences, if the previous sex life of the victim is 'opened to the court' then that of the perpetrator should also be admissible.

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Very tricky - being a wanton harlot does not in any way mean you are fair game for a raping.

What I'm more concerned about (and I'm no Romeo so I'm sure there are many more out there) is that I have been known to get some grief the morning after the night before for the absolute munter I was dabbling with, when I have absolutely no recollection. If I don't remember, does that mean I was incapable of consent and have therefore been raped? Not implying that was the case here (long since lost interest in this one), just a thought

He was denied employment at a succession of clubs due to the intervention of do-gooder celebrities, politicians, sponsors, online petitions and the social media mob all applying pressure to every club that tried to sign him.

Funnily enough, online kangaroo courts don't yet hold legal precedent in this country, so the fact that they did succeed in blocking someone who was legally entitled to work from doing so is what, if not a witch hunt?

The fact that he was subsequently found not guilty makes it even worse.

You claim that he is lucky to have been found innocent, presuming that his status affected the eventual outcome. However, that works both ways and the torrent of abuse he has received and earnings lost are also of a far higher proportion than they would have been if he was a normal person.

Just to clarify, I am no fan of Evans and realise that he could have avoided the entire scenario if he had chosen not to act in such a foul and seedy manner. However, he is legally innocent and will now spend the rest of his life with the stigma of rape attached to him.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

Of course he was found guilty, at trial, and only then released by Sheffield Utd.

On the basis of witnesses who only came forward last year, in response to an offer of a reward. Its important to remember that the woman in question had waived anonymity, and was not found to be lying either.

Without that evidence, he was rightly convicted of rape (his first appeal was turned down). This isn't a case of miscarriage of justice or withheld evidence by the prosecution or police. The retrial was based on evidence that had it been available to the original jury may have affected their verdict.

Absolutely, had he not posted a 50k reward and had the kind of celebrity high level status the case garnered, its pretty certain those two corroborating witnesses to 'reasonable consent' would not have appeared, and he would still be Chad Evans the Rapist.

So yes, he is lucky that a) he had 50k to offer b) that the witch hunt happened otherwise those two witnesses might never have come forwards.

Quite, and he should not have been so singularly ostracised after having served out the five years. I don't agree that necessarily he should have been able to immediately return to football on parole (but then I don't agree with automatic early release and parole for sex offenders - Parole and early release should be based on rehabilitation etc).

But he basically overturned a rape charge on what would normally be referred to as a technicality in most cases. Remember that there was still actually a rape, its just that no one was guilty of rape.

He can thank his lawyer and 50k for him being cleared.

Lets not forget just how scummy his 'Defenders' had been throughout the case and that a number of his 'close friends and family' were involved in some pretty scummy online activity.

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