eejit
Central Defender
If you infer a story from it, based on only that information, then it’s based partly on your imagination.There was 5 whole days of evidence,7 mins for the jury to decide tells its own story.
To be clear, my point isn’t about this case specifically. I understand the rationale for naming the accused if there’s good reason to think they’re a repeat offender and it would encourage other victims to come forward. That doesn’t seem to be the case with Diamond though and it seems he’s been badly let down here.
But the wider point is important because, as others have pointed out, it’s a short hop from conflating a not guilty verdict with the idea of being ‘found innocent’, to assuming that an accuser was lying. The risk of being branded a liar dissuades abused women from coming forward.
Being wrongly accused must be horrific. And @cronnyberg’s previous point about the scale of the injustice to women stands too.
Rape or sexual assault cases aren’t the place for casual assumptions. Let’s stick to what we know.