Good news. Benjamin Mendy’s identity should never have been revealed publicly in the first place. The law should be changed from the current position – alleged rapists can be named publicly if and when charged – to only being named if and when convicted.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
I agree about the anonymity. The case was obviously high profile here in Manchester. In a sense it highlights the nonsense that is our current debates about “rape”. Mendy and his brother could hardly be described as moral but nor could the young women who vied to get to lavish parties then bragged about their “shagging” football stars. Whereas in the past the much maligned ordinary citizen on the jury would have regarded the whole scenario as sordid, now of course promiscuous sex of all sorts is promoted and any practice is fine so long as everyone “consents”. In such a society the idea that any one instance of intercourse is “a fate worse than death” is clearly nonsense, nor that somehow promiscuous women who brag about this are “victims” who will suffer reputational damage and “trauma”.
Somehow juries have to sort out such an unholy mess, “beyond reasonable doubt”.
Now remind me which group was so active in sexual liberation and breaking down the boundaries of “repressive” morality ? The very same why constantly trumpet “rape” as if the accused should be destroyed as if it is still the 1950s. The real “rape myths” are that it is the crime as it was in a past when sex was taken to be a very serious matter bounded by many social conventions.
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