@Roussette
She was 17 so not underage?
I'm not sure how many times it has to be said on these threads, the fact she was 17 is irrelevant and in NY that was underage, and a trafficked person is trafficked irrelevant of age.
There are some awful PA apologists and victim blamers on this thread. Shocking.
As for not remembering you saw Prince Charles in a Pizza Express. Come off of it. Most people would be dining out on that for decades. I saw Wayne Sleep stood outside some chain or other once, I still talk about it now and it was 20 years ago!
Sometimes you have to look at the reality and decide if it is worth the time and expense or just walk away
Really? Should people just walk away from these abhorrent crimes of trafficking young girls ? What about the three 12 year olds shipped to JE from Paris for a birthday present? There were hundreds of victims whose lives have been changed forever because of this and VG is highlighting something that needs attention. For that I give her credit.
I saw the Queen mother once in a random place. No one took a blind bit of notice of her. I only realised it was the Queen mother because I bumped into her and Dh who was walking behind saw the security team move towards me but quickly realise I wasn’t a threat.
I can’t even remember what decade that was.
I used a certain supermarket for a while and saw a couple of very famous singers in their doing their shopping. A very famous actor used to drink in a pub we occasionally went to. We saw a presenter buying a tv from Tesco once. Again no one took a blind bit of notice . No one ran off looking for the paparazzi or phoned the tv companies to say that they had seen X and Y doing their shopping in the local Sainsbury’s like they did every Thursday night or that Z was having a pint in a certain pub. Or got out their phones to take photos. Or do they because I cannot understand the big deal. It would come across as rude. Certainly wouldn’t be indelibly printed on my mind.
Dd has met through her work many famous people. Most of the time she doesn’t know who they are.
She did meet someone once in a completely different setting who was very short and slim and she knew she had seen him before and he was well known. She asked someone else who he was and they told her. Dd thought he was a jockey.
She is probably the age of the waiting staff in Pizza Express. She hasn’t a clue who PA is.
No one is saying that people cannot pursue civil cases and maybe there is better evidence for some cases.
But in this case given the limited jurisdiction of the court and the lack of evidence. Wasn’t VG not used in the Maxwell trial because her statement had so many holes in it. Even if she goes through with the trial and wind and is awarded millions, the likelihood of her not seeing a penny is almost guaranteed.
It doesn’t matter how much an American court awards her it means nothing in the U.K.
At best there will be an out of court settlement with her agreeing that PA has no blame and she cannot pursue this further or give evidence against him or speak about him ever. Which sort of puts a dent in the argument that she is doing this as some sort of selfless act to bring attention to “wrong doing”
At worse she is facing bankruptcy and putting both hers and her families lives on hold for years.
It doesn’t matter how aggrieved or victimised you feel, short of going through a no win no fee legal firm if the reality is that even if you win the case the person who the money is coming from is not under the same rule of the countries court system and your legal bills are so high that you will bankrupt your family then I don’t think people should pursue civil cases at any cost.
I think either VG’s lawyers are either no win no fee and are hoping for a payoff before it reaches the courts or her lawyers haven’t made it clear that winning the case could be a Pyrrhic victory as there will be no money, just their bill to pay or someone else is footing the bill for this.