Rob

I want to add some very important context regarding the actual rape allegation. Rape is one of the hardest crimes to prove in court hence the low conviction rate, there is a very important 24 hour window that is crucial for the investigation, DNA, cctv, eye witnesses etc, and even after all that it’s still very difficult to actually prove the woman didn’t consent to sex. So the fact they have somehow proved she withdrew consent DURING sex nearly 20 years after it fucking happened is absolutely mind boggling. This supposed “24 witnesses” thing is also being very overstated, they weren’t witnesses, they were people she told at the time that backed up her story but for some reason not one of them urged her to go to the police at the time? Especially her father who was one of the “witnesses” she told about it at the time, I cant imagine a father finding out his daughter was raped and not doing anything about it? im not necessarily saying the woman is lying, Brand was a slimy bastard, but this case reeks of a shitty justice system, and there are girls that have went through this whole ordeal within a year of their assault and theres been no conviction. This brand case hurts women and men. Getting a guilty conviction in a case where you withdrew consent from sex you had 20 years ago is a dangerous precedent and a slap in the face to other girls that have done everything correct and got no conviction.