Police and prosecutors have apologised after a student's rape trial collapsed because an officer failed to disclose evidence. The case against Liam Allan, 22, was thrown out of court after it emerged a detective had failed to hand over text messages from the accuser's phone. After a review into the ...
The case against Liam Allan, 22, was thrown out of court after it emerged a detective had failed to hand over text messages from the accuser's phone. ... The case was thrown out after evidence on computer disk containing 40,000 messages revealed Mr Allan's accuser had pestered him for casual sex.
The panel says statements by Butsinas' accuser in two CPS reports from interviews in 2010 and 2013 could have been used by the defense to possibly undermine the testimony of the girl, ... The results of the 2010 forensic interview of Butsinas' accuser “contradicted” her trial testimony, the judges say.
The panel says statements by Butsinas' accuser in two CPS reports from interviews in 2010 and 2013 could have been used by the defense to possibly undermine the testimony of the girl, who was 15 at the time of the 2015 trial. “We are confident that the prosecution's suppression of the 2010 and 2013 ...
The student who had to wait two years to be cleared of rape after 40,000 messages from his accuser were hidden has received an apology from the police and the Crown Prosecution Service. Liam Allan's rape trial collapsed after it emerged a detective had not handed over text messages from his ...
Liam Allan, 22, spent two years on bail after being accused of rape and sexual assault while police sat on key text messages which his accuser had sent. The Greenwich University student was eventually acquitted of the charges in December after a prosecutor discovered the full file of messages, which ...
The case against Liam Allan, 22, was thrown out of court after it emerged a detective had not handed over text messages from the accuser's phone. Messages between the complainant in the case and others were only passed to the defence days before the trial collapsed at Croydon Crown Court.
A key text message, sent by the accuser to a female friend on Sept 3, 2015, read: "It wasn't against my will or anything". Mr Allan faced up to 20 years in jail after being hauled to court on the false testimony of his accuser — despite the cop leading the investigation allegedly telling him the case was weak.
“Basically anonymous 'claimants' may make any accusation they wish. The 'accused' may only respond in writing to his accuser's claims. No due process. No hearing. Pure McCarthyism. The blacklist all over again.” Some hours later, he added: “You can now be blacklisted from @TheAcademy by a ...
On Monday, lawyers for Haleigh Breest filed a motion to dismiss his case against her and requested he pay sanctions. Breest has claimed in a countersuit that the director raped her. “This case is a rapist's attempt to silence and intimidate his victim,” her lawyers said in court papers. Haggis claims ...
