Accused says he is innocent of rape because he can't remember it. [title edited by MNHQ at OP's request]

Is there a factual link?

Unfortunately the military culture around drinking isn't the healthiest, and people drinking themselves into oblivion at mess events is run of the mill. Things like putting drunk people to bed happens frequently. So the 'too drunk to remember' thing will sound very plausible to any senior officer.

At least it made it to court my ex has been arrested three times for three separate offences and it has been dropped three times the victims all report coercion by the police to withdraw the charges the last two victims stories are scarily similar and they have never had any contact with each other (I know for a fact and it's far to outing to say how)

Our country is shite on prosecution

It's a far more worrying precedent that you have convicted someone

Um, making a comment is not "convicting" someone. And it definitely carries no legal precedent.

Courts aren't about truth anyway, they're about determining whether there is legal cause for the state to deprive someone of their liberty or impose another punishment. Truth has little to do with it, people don't have to pretend otherwise.

It doesn’t say he has been cleared.

He's not been cleared.

Well, we’ve had the millionaire who tripped and fell dick first into a sleeping female house guest acquitted of rape. I can’t say this is any less bullshitty as a defence.

It's a far more worrying precedent that you have convicted someone whose trial is not over without ever having actually heard the evidence, just a sensationalized partial version in a newspaper. I don't know whether he raped her, or whether they were both so hammered that neither knew what they were doing. Perhaps the decision should be left to those who've actually heard the evidence?

To be fair it sounds like they were both absolutely hammered and neither remembers anything.