Our thanks to James for this piece in today’s Mail on Sunday. The journalist is Jonathan Bucks, we welcome the increasing frequency with which male journalists are covering such stories.
We’ve already reported the case of Danny Kay, but this article includes some interesting new details. It’s possible there must have been miscarriages of justice in thousands of cases in recent years, where men pleaded not guilty to sexual offences. Every case going back to at least the appointment of Alison Saunders as DPP should be reviewed. Extracts from the article:
A man who spent more than two years in jail for a rape he did not commit had his conviction quashed after a relative took only a minute to uncover a series of bombshell Facebook messages – missed by police – that proved his innocence.
In the latest rape case to highlight failings in the criminal justice system, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the jury at Danny Kay’s 2013 trial was only shown doctored transcripts of crucial Facebook chats between Mr Kay and his accuser.
In an exclusive interview with the MoS, Mr Kay said archived versions of the original messages – proving he had consensual sex with his accuser – were found by his sister-in-law, Sarah Maddison. When she showed the Facebook exchange to the officer in charge of the investigation, he said: ‘How did you know how to find the messages and we didn’t?’…
By then, Mr Kay had spent three months in jail. It would be another three years before his conviction was overturned. The Appeal Court heard earlier this month that police relied on an ‘edited and misleading’ account of the Facebook conversation that was given to them by the complainant [J4MB emphasis] in the weeks after she claimed she was raped by Mr Kay.
It could not be more clear that Kay’s accuser sought to pervert the course of justice. She should be charged accordingly.
Once again, we refer you to Janet Bloomfield’s piece, 13 reasons women lie about rape.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Surprise surprise!
Another man is proved not to be an evil rapist.
I like to think the world is waking up to this misandric witch hunt, but like many men I am prone to being overly optimistic and too trusting. So I will continue to be on my guard and to watch the backs of others until fairness and wise judgment prevail. Surely this madness cannot be the new norm?…
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It has been for some years enshrined in Guidance and Training to the CPS and Police, and indeed the magistrates if not Judges. It will take all people of fair mind to constantly prod at it in any way we can. Again in this the secrecy about the name of the complainant would have made finding relevant messages much harder for friends or relatives.
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Sundance, it is the new norm, unfortunately. As long as men continue treating women more leniently across the board-gentleman style, so will the rest of the society and that means a woman’s word will be believed rather than a man’s. As long as the men in the streets continue to put ladies ahead of themselves, so will the judges put them ahead of men. Why the surprise? These problems will only go away once men resolve to stop giving women preferential treatment and that means withholding the gentleman treatment. Treating them only as politely as they treat fellow male citizens. No more. It is long overdue, after women entered the work force an masse. We can not continue treating women as if they still were the Victorian ladies. They are quite the opposite today and men’s treatment of them in today’s world needs to reflect that.
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It can only be a matter of time before someone starts fighting back against this injustice by routinely naming accusers online. The internet being what it is, it would be very difficult to stop someone who was determined to do this.
I am not advocating it, you understand. I am just saying that where the technology exists to achieve something, and someone is motivated enough to do it, eventually it will come to pass.
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It won’t be a few miscarriages of justice, it will probably be most are false, exaggerated or the sentence is vastly disproportionate to the crime. When Keir Starmer was DPP he was from a very similar ilk to Alison Saunders, of course being male his reasons might be different, Alison Saunders clearly has an axe to grind against men, Keir Starmer is just career driven and relishes on crushing and destroying people in pursuit of his career goals. But in both cases the results are the same: Mass injustice
But even before both of those were in power, there were many miscarriages of justice. Especially regarding paedophilia which is a witch hunt that has been going on aggressively for decades. For instance, Operation Ore which started in the late 90s has been shown to have been nothing other than credit card fraud but despite this thousands of men were rounded up, had their homes raided and many were jailed and placed on the sex offender register or killed themselves. Over 30 men are known to have killed themselves, I suspect the real number is higher. And the appeal court refused to even properly hear the evidence that Operation Ore was the worst miscarriage of justice in British history, I suspect the powers that be did not want the truth to come out.
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