Our thanks to Jon for this. Great news.

Appalling. The man appears to have not the slightest understanding about gender politics, and the anti-male bias of the criminal justice system, rarely as evident as in this area. The comments stream is well worth reading. We can but hope Mr Gittos is one day the victim of a false rape allegation, to wake him up to the reality of the state-sponsored assaults of men which are going on here.

Our thanks to Francis for this.

Ghazunfer Ali, the taxi driver, was off work for six weeks – presumably receiving no financial compensation from Ms Battye – and is scarred for life. Judge Leslie Hill made the customary derisory claim:

‘You will probably never realise just how close you came to going to prison.’

As a woman, she didn’t come close. As a woman with a five-month-old child, she was more likely to be struck by lightning than go to prison for the offence.

Our thanks to Craig for this. From the article:

Full sexual risk orders last for a minimum of two years and breaching an order can lead to a prison sentence of up to five years.

They are used when someone has not been convicted of a sexual offence, but the police convince a court it is necessary for one to be made against the person to protect the public from him or her.

Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, failed to respond by the required deadline to our FOI request asking for minutes of meetings she’s had since she took on her role, with organizations advocating for victims of domestic and/or sexual abuse. Her response is now 13 weeks overdue.

Our letter to Ms Saunders is here. We’ll publish a post each week on the delay, and email the Crown Prosecution Service each time, until we get a response.

Our thanks to AVfM for publishing this (video, 33:32).

Following on from our last piece, on the whiny Spanish footballerina, our thanks to the party member who’s just suggested we invite people to complete limericks starting with the following line:

A female footballer in Spain…

A free J4MB wristband (RRP £5.00) for the person who sends in the best entry – deadline 18:00 GMT, Sunday, 24 January.

Our thanks to Sean for this. The start of the article:

Elena Pavel, who plays for Sporting Huelva, claimed that referee Santiago Quijada Alcon, who officiated her side’s 3-2 defeat to Santa Teresa on Sunday, propositioned her by asking: “Hey brown-hair, let’s get coffee this afternoon.” [This must be the ‘rape culture’ I’ve been hearing about. To be fair, she does have brown hair.]

According to a report by The Local, the 31-year-old replied, “Better stick to blowing your whistle” and later told news agency Efe that she believed Alcon was attempting to provoke her.

“I’ve stopped believing in football, in fair play,” she said.

“I feel helpless, humiliated. In the many years I’ve been playing football I’ve never felt so ashamed.” [Quick, someone, fetch the fainting couch!]

Pavel also criticised Alcon’s general performance, after he sent off two Huelva players and rejected vociferous claims for a penalty.

So the referee sent off two players from her side, and rejected vociferous claims [are they more likely to be valid than non-vociferous claims?] for a penalty… certain indicators of bias and/or incompetence, surely?

A tip of the hat to the Men’s Advisory Project, an organization in Northern Ireland which gets funding from the Department of Health, for this.

There are no places in refuges in Northern Ireland (or Ireland) for male victims of domestic abuse. We recently learned that the Irish government does not have data available on male victims. Toy Soldier’s piece on the matter is here.

I recently had an email from a young man, ‘Jay’, who suffers from chronic prostatis. With his permission, I put his story forward to AVfM to publish, and it’s here.