A sex abuse fantasist who sparked a disastrous £2.5m police investigation will face a private prosecution for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) fails to take action. Daniel Janner, a QC and the son of the late Lord Janner, said he would begin the legal ...
That's Andrea Constand, the Bill Cosby accuser whose sexual assault complaint brought down this week the man who was once called “America's Dad.” Cosby, 80, received a guilty verdict on three counts of aggravated indecent assault made by Constand. Sixty women reportedly have accused Cosby ...
The idea was that “all women have a right to be believed,” not just heard. It was on this theory that a variety of accusers managed to bring down everyone from Weinstein to Kevin Spacey, from now-former Senator Al Franken (D-MN) to California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D), and from disgraced ...
Soccer boss Danny Jordaan has laid criminal charges against singer and former Member of Parliament Jennifer Ferguson. On Friday he went to Sandton police station where he made a sworn statement, asking the police to charge Ferguson with defamation. In March, Ferguson laid a charge of rape ...
Soccer boss Danny Jordaan has laid criminal charges against singer and former Member of Parliament Jennifer Ferguson. On Friday he went to Sandton police station where he made a sworn statement, asking the police to charge Ferguson with defamation. In March, Ferguson laid a charge of rape ...
NEW YORK • The guilty verdict against Bill Cosby was hailed by some as long overdue. Not just because his victim, Ms Andrea Constand, first reported his sexual assault on her 13 years ago, but also because, as a lawyer for other Cosby accusers put it, "women were finally believed". Getting there ...
SCARE tactics can sometimes achieve their purpose; but only when their target is vulnerable. Consider the flip-flopping of the President of the Medical and Dental Association. Only four months ago he accompanied a group of interested citizens on a walkabout at the St. Jude Hospital site. Afterward he ...
Two officers met with Smith's accuser when she came to the Lancaster police station to give her statement on Thursday. Criminal charges against Smith were approved after police consulted with the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office. Smith was arraigned Thursday and later committed to ...
Two officers met with Smith's accuser when she came to the Lancaster police station to give her statement on Thursday. Criminal charges against Smith were approved after police consulted with the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office. Smith was arraigned Thursday and later committed to ...
The first was that only one extra accuser was allowed to testify in that trial compared with five in the subsequent trial. The second is that the MeToo movement—which gathered steam between the two trials—has created a storm of vengeful feeling and a widespread assumption of guilt for anyone such as ...
