To think the Ched Evans verdict shows why mob justice is wrong

[JonathanDunn]

Hundreds of thousands of people were willing Condemn a innocent man. He was practically forced out of football. This is why we can't play jury from our sofas.

Ooh I've never thrown a biscuit on here before.
OP - catch!

(Ps, I'm hurling all these in the general direction of the op)

Oh fuck off ! I'm speaking as a woman who was involved in a rape case in the media and everyone felt sorry for him

Do us a favour and get back on your bike, fuck off and fuck off some more

Jonathan Dunn

Do be a dear, and fuck off to the far side of fuck.... then fuck off some more.

TIA.

Fuck off. He has sex with an unconscious women. Utter utter prick.

I've give it two years, tops, before he does it again and fingers crossed the next conviction sticks.

He wasn't found innocent. He was found not guilty. Subtle difference. Look it up.

Oh the fucking irony, mob justice is something his "supporters" know a lot about.

OP you might want familiarise yourself with the law
Nothing happened, there was no mob justice
There were two trials in a court of law.

The complainant was paid a fair bit of compensation for the mob justice doled out by Ched's friends and family.

His brother stood watching through a window, since when has being a peeping tom been acceptable? Could the little creep not be charged with anything, nice family.

The parents must be so proud of both of them.

His brother's a teacher. Fabulous role model.

I find it hilarious when people act like the justice system is infallible. Like there have never been miscarriages of justice before, and there aren't massive issues with the way rape cases are dealt with.

He was found not guilty by a jury. That's not the same as him being innocent.

The only mob justice in this case was aimed at the vict. She had been unlawfully named and repeatedly abused online.

I think it's disgusting that the woman's ex was brought in to testify about their sex life and I wonder if that influenced the jury. I didn't think bringing up an alleged rape victim's sexual history was allowed? No wonder so many are afraid to come forward!

Memyself - he should have been charged with voyeurism. But the victim was only a woman, so what does it matter?

I can't put into words how sick this makes me feel.

The idea of, as a previous poster put it, consent being transferable is utterly vile. I have to accept that he has been found not guilty in court, but it doesn't suddenly make him a fine upstanding member of the community, who values and respects women.

As for his girlfriend, words fail me. He has no respect for her yet she campaigned for him and stood by his side. I don't know whether to loathe her or pity her.

Absolutely agree treacle. Using daddy's money to fight your boyfriend's legal battles so that you can pursue your chosen career as a WAG. Contacting witnesses on FB. (How the fuck was that allowed?)

There is a female PM and yet it's a shit time to be a woman. It's like a weird 80's justice revival.

Urgh.. I'm presuming the original poster is a man
My heart sunk when I saw he'd been cleared.
I feel very sad to raise daughters in a world where this verdict is reached.
I feel equally sad to raise my sons in a world where men like him are seen as role models.

Ugh. Even if you think that having sex with an unconscious woman is OK (?), can you imagine that this kind of entitled behaviour might make him do bad things to other people too, like men?

Vile.

I do suspect the op posted to be goady; I wouldn't feed it tbh.

(See AF up thread)

This whole thing is disgusting. The verdict, the rape, the appeal, all of it.

I feel so angry for the victim. That poor brave girl.

What I really don't understand is why the girlfriend stood by that cretin. Even if she genuinely genuinely believed that he was innocent of rape, if she fell for his story on what happened, any reasonable woman would be long gone. Instead offers £50k for someone to say something that would get him off the charge. Disgusting and unfathomable.

I don't get it. he by his own words has admitted not gaining consent. why this verdict?
if you get charged with tax dodging you don't get off for 'not knowing'?

He didn't speak to the woman before, during or after the act. Yet apparently it was consensual.