Gazza sexual assault trial

[Stillmuddlingthrough]

What a gross individual - admitted he kissed her to cheer her up. That's ok then it seems!?!

who was known for being tactile.

Yeah, I know people who are 'known for being tactile'. The ones who touch you, see you recoil, but do it anyway because it's 'just their way of being friendly'.

It's simple really. If you know someone doesn't like being touched don't touch them. If you don't know if someone likes being touched or not don't touch them - or, crazy idea here, ask them!

We kiss friends and family members and our own children so kissing on it's own isn't a sexual act as such

I think it can be a sexual act. It is certainly a very intimate act. And not everybody kisses their relatives on the mouth. The only person I kiss on the lips is my husband and we don't even kiss in public. The thought of a stranger doing it makes me want to gag.

The two charges were sexual assault and assault by beating (battery)

www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/offences-against-person-incorporating-charging-standard

www.cps.gov.uk/sexual-offences

This made me so angry. He's not even denying kissing her against her will yet he's got off scott free. Poor woman won't bother reporting anything else to the police. She didn't even know (or care) who he was and why should it make a difference anyway. The man is a total car crash but he is being enabled by law.
Furious.

I found this thread after a search and couldn’t log on due to a tech problem. I’ve now seen the attached on the BBC news site TODAY and I’m just so depressed and exasperated. I don’t know what has gone wrong with this prosecution but I just feel for this poor woman. ‘low Level’ assaults like this are not just distressing for the victim but intimidating for other women as it legitimises behaviours that put women off travelling alone and living a life with freedom without restriction. I’m trying to look for any positives here. I have read that other passengers called the police which I guess is a step up from the times I’ve been groped and bystanders have sniggered or turned away. Scraping the barrel here, but I did read the daily fail comments and 90% of them goggled at this outcome as I am. I’m enraged though that Gascoigne is now milking this as the victim.

Ffs

What about her year and more of hell?
About the only glimmer of hope, and it's a very small one, that I can see in this, is that maybe he will think twice before pawing a stranger. Utterly gross behaviour.

Paul gasgoine is an alcoholic has had decades of hell he always trots out these excuses and it is pathetic the way he behaves

So if you are sexually assaulted while attractive, you're asking for it and if not, you're too ugly for it to be sexual assault.

Nicely circular.

And if you are a "fat lass" you should be grateful for the crumbs of attention

The two charges were sexual assault and assault by beating (battery)

Big mistake on the part of the prosecution. What happened clearly was not the latter and lacked the sexual intent of the former. It was a common assault and should have gone to a magistrates court. Elevating it to the other 2 bumped it into a jury trial.

I thought kissing was one of the things a prostitute/ sex worker often refused. Now it's something that no woman or man presumably can object to. Ridiculous, so much for the #Me too.

Gascoignes played the victim for years, not surprised he’s back to his self pitying best here tbh.

Yes he has

Didn’t he do an interview with Piers Morgan and he spoke of how violent he was - rather than being criticized for the violence he was praised for being honest 🙄

This fucking headline was in front of me in the staff canteen today. Vomit worthy shit stain. "I can't change who I am" or some such self pitying shite. If you can't stop yourself being a grossly arrogant creepy letch, pal, stop leaving your house. Fuckwit.

Paul, and other men, have just been given permission to kiss, grope or who knows what else, if they claim they are doing it to make the woman feel better.

Vile, disgusting, entitled prick.

Yeah he regularly battered his wife he wasnt proud buthe was being honest in interview!