Our thanks to John for this. Extracts:
A teen accused of rape spent three months in custody because police did not disclose texts that proved his innocence. His alleged victim wrote in one message: “I’m not just going to mess his life up, I’m going to ruin it lol.” [J4MB emphasis]
Connor Fitzgerald, 19, had the rape charge against him thrown out when prosecutors discovered the texts. Fitzgerald, of South Norwood in south London, lost his job as a BT engineer because of the claim. [J4MB emphasis]
The charges were dropped at Croydon Crown Court last week when it emerged that the complainant, who will have lifelong anonymity, had sent texts threatening to destroy him.
“It’s been heart-breaking – It felt like I was guilty until proven innocent,” he told the Sun. “My life has been ruined. I’m scared to even leave the house because everyone thinks I’m a rapist.”…
Fitzgerald was arrested in front of his mother and sister in November when police officers raided his home. It followed a complaint that a woman made in June. She alleged Fitzgerald had raped her after a drunken night out.
After the arrest, he was denied bail and was held on remand at HMP High Down, a category-B prison in Banstead, Surrey.
He was reprieved after Fitzgerald’s brother found some of the text messages from the woman on his iCloud account and informed the authorities. Missing texts also showed the woman saying that she had enjoyed the sex.
Fitzgerald says he plans to sue the police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). “If my brother hadn’t found the texts, I’d have ended up in prison for 12 years or more,” he said.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Unfortunately,most men will shrug it off like yeah, well, she’s a young lady, so it’s okay…
It is precisely this mindset of men that not only tolerates this type of women’s behavior, but emboldens it.
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My 28 year old son was arrested following a complaint made against him by a girl he had met. He was released without charge after others that knew the girl told the police that she was a total nut job and had done this sort of thing in the past. The Police were very considerate and did their job properly.
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“The Police were very considerate and did their job properly.”
I am not convinced. They may have done their job better but if the girl had done this several times in the past some action must be taken. She should have been prosecuted to protect other innocent victims – attempt to pevert the course of justice, wasting police time etc. Mental illness can be taken into account as a mitigating factor or in determining the appropriate options if found guilty. If she is found guilty then her name can be published protecting other men. I am not vindictive, if genuinely ill then punishment is not appropriate but documenting and publicising that she does this should be.
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This false accuser had an established history of launching false accusations. In order to protect innocent men, she should be sent to prison for a very long time. No appeal. No parole. Throw away the key. And, since she was launching false allegations of a sexual nature, then she must herself be branded and forever after treated as a convicted sex offender.
Any misplaced ‘compassion’ towards towards a false accuser merely encourages the phenomenon. And so-called ‘mental illness’ ought not to be an allowable excuse in the case of a serial offender. That’s not fair.
The only way to stop false allegations is to stop encouraging women to launch false allegations. As a rule, women are very sensitive to peer pressure. If women were taught that launching a false allegation was not socially acceptable, then women would not do it. We have created this dystopia by incentivising and by rewarding women who lie. The way to stamp it out is by punishing women who lie.
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I think there should be no anonymity in any crimes except blackmail or for children but mental illness is a valid mitigating factor.
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“Mental illness can be taken into account as a mitigating factor or in determining the appropriate options if found guilty”
its always interesting when people attempt to use the mental illness card because in order to claim it you have to demonstrate mental illness in three spheres of your life( that usually home/personal, work and public.
If your mental illness is really that bad to make the above claim, then you will then have to be subjected/placed under medical supervision because you are then an endangerment to yourself and others..
It also means that liability ( in part) is transferred to the local authorities who will be responsible for monitoring you and looking after you.
if this lady wants to go down this path, then she can kiss her social life( and her sex life) goodbye..
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Good. In my experience a lot of experienced Police Officers get a lot of just the sort of stuff in this story. Young people flinging around accusations for the most trivial reasons. Young women fling about accusations of rape, sexual assault and violence. Young men have a weaker armoury so it tends to be theft or fraud. Most will tell you that this is from the same families and milieu as other petty criminality and social problems. In such a world longer term consequences are completely forgotten in favour the immediate need for revenge or to hurt even to presumptions that the suitably “chastened” young man will come back to the accuser “cos I luv ‘im”. Hence the Police know the majority of accusations will result in work and nothing else.
For the less scrupulous officers the huge pool of such accusations provides a tempting fishing pond to pick up arrests and even prosecutions of hapless young men whose real “crime” is often to have dumped the complainant for a new girlfriend.
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Please can everyone read the update and sign and share the petition thanks https://www.change.org/p/uk-parliament-establish-an-independent-board-that-investigates-complaints-against-the-police/u/22320474
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Why wasn’t this on the BBC and Channel 4 news bulletins?! Why isn’t this criminal being prosecuted? We should fund a private prosecution of this nasty dangerous woman
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Yet the moment a woman is falsely imprisoned, the BBC post it on their website prominently, because you know, vagina not penis : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42892530
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Google just hid this page and you would have to search for it specifically. Also, on the NZ Herald’s coverage of this story they have a video at the bottom about rape statistics around the world and it only focuses on women and it uses BS numbers for their claims.
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