This is another one that doesn't fall under either the FRA or Rape category. I did notice, she was put through exactly what most men, in every story we have run on this site, has been put through.
And maybe that will be the thing that creates the turning point, that will get more and more people, vocal about punishing false claims. And before anyone starts screaming about his behavior, keep in mind we are only hearing her side of the story.
How easy would it be to state that simply because he chose not to move forward with the claim of rape, doesn't mean it didn't happen. However, with no blood tests for drugs, and no other proof to corroborate his story, the police did the right thing here in dropping charges and letting her go.
Tanya Hutchinson cleared of sexual assault.
A woman falsely accused of date-raping a wealthy businessman has told for the first time how the ordeal ruined her life.
Tanya Hutchison, a 42-year-old mother of five, was cleared of sexual assault but said the nightmarish police investigation had left her permanently scarred.
"My life is in ruins, all because of a claim that was totally ridiculous and should never have been taken seriously," she said.
When six police officers arrived at her home to arrest her in front of her seven-year-old son, she told them that the man's allegation that she had spiked his drinks with a date-rape drug before forcing him into sex was ludicrous.But despite her insistence that they had shared an afternoon of consensual sex, she was held in a police cell for four hours.
Then she had to describe every explicit detail of the encounter in a two-hour interview with five officers - four of them men - who she claims treated her as if she were guilty.
"I was stunned and terrified," she said. "I felt as if it was me who had been raped.
"I had to tell the officers every aspect of what I'd done with the man, which was deeply humiliating.
"They ransacked my home and took away my bedsheets, phone and, worst of all, my underwear to carry out forensic tests.
"I was questioned in a manner I felt was unnecessarily aggressive.
"I couldn't understand why I was being made to feel like a criminal over a claim that was so unbelievable.
"How could a small woman date-rape a powerfully built, 6ft tall man?
"I've been taking anti-depressants since it happened and I've lost more than two and a half stone because of the stress.
"I feel petrified when I hear police sirens and my confidence in the legal process is badly shaken."
Ms Hutchison, a part-time carer for the elderly, was cleared when the man, a married building company owner who cannot be named for legal reasons, dropped the allegations.
Yet she has received no apology or explanation from him about why, when their brief affair turned sour, he chose to take such a devastating course of action.
The pair first met three years ago when Ms Hutchison's then husband was working for the man's company.
Her marriage ended almost two years ago but she kept in touch with her husband's former employer.
When he called to invite her to meet for a coffee, she agreed.
"I was lonely, living in a tiny one bedroom house with my son, so I was delighted that he seemed interested in me," she said. "The coffee we had led to a few dates in pubs.
"I knew he was married but I thought he was separated from his wife.
"He told me that he thought ours would be a special, long-lasting relationship and he spoke of taking me on a trip to Portugal.
I began to believe we had a future together."
The man suggested meeting at Ms Hutchison's home in Worthing, West Sussex, and turned up at 11am on a Thursday in June with two bottles of wine.
"I was taken aback because the wine made it very clear he was there for sex," she said.
"But I liked him and thought he was serious about me so I didn't object. We each drank about a bottle of wine, talking and laughing together in a sweet and romantic way, and then he suggested we head to my bedroom.
"We had sex and it was entirely consensual."
"Afterwards, as we lay on the bed, he started talking about how much he loved his wife and how he would never leave her.
"His whole manner changed and he seemed very cold.
"He got dressed, walked into the kitchen and threw £60 on the table, saying, 'Buy something for the kids.' I was horrified that he seemed to be treating me like a prostitute.
"I was angry and felt used and cheap.
"In the heat of the moment, I threatened to tell his wife about us.
"He left in his grey 4x4 and, although I was badly shaken by what had happened, I never expected to hear any more about it."
But the man went to the police and told them she had spiked his drinks and had sexual intercourse with him without his consent.
The next morning, two police cars arrived at her home at 8am as she was getting her son ready for school.
Six officers piled into her tiny living room and, as her son clutched her legs in fear, she was told she was being arrested on suspicion of sexual assault after administering a date-rape drug.
The boy was taken to the home of Ms Hutchison's 22-year-old daughter, Leah, and Ms Hutchison was taken to Worthing police station while forensic-experts scoured her flat.
"I was in total disbelief when they told me why they were there," she said.
"I was terrified. I didn't get a chance to reassure my son, who was in tears, and they didn't explain the situation to him or his sister. I'm still very angry about that.
"I dread to think what effect it has had on him."
At the police station, Ms Hutchison says she was searched and kept in a cell without a toilet for four hours.
"I was shaking with nerves and felt sick but there was nowhere to be sick. Then the questioning began and it seemed to last for ever, although I think it was two hours.
"Five officers made me tell them intimate details such as what positions we'd used while having intercourse.
"I was mortified and felt dirty and ashamed. I couldn't understand why they were treating the man's claim seriously.
"I felt as if I was trapped in a bad dream.
"I can only think that he believed I was going to tell his wife and wanted to get in first with an excuse to cover up our affair.
"It's pathetic. Because of his weakness I've had to suffer in a way no innocent person should."
Ms Hutchison was released on bail.
A few days later, police called at her home to tell her that the man had admitted she was telling the truth.
She has struggled to recover from her ordeal and says she has lost faith in a system that has allowed her accuser to go unpunished for his lies.
She said: "It makes me very angry that he has got off scot-free for making up something so evil about me.
"He was not even cautioned for wasting police time and nobody has apologised to me.
"All I wanted was to trust a man again but I can't imagine myself trusting anyone for a long time."
A Sussex police spokesman said: 'We investigated an allegation of sexual assault against Tanya Hutchison but we can confirm there will be no further action taken."
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"I threatened to tell his wife about us."
If this IS a false rape accusation, then here we have the very same reason that we so often see from women - guilt and covering up for cheating.
I'm afraid I don't give a fuck for Tanya Hutchinson or the Daily Mail.
Why not? Since I am also a falsely accused?
For one simple reason, the only reason this is a prominent story is because this time it is a woman accused, falsely or otherwise, of rape.
We had three separate women imprisoned for false rape accusations within the last three months in this small city of 110,000 people and all three of them together got precisely two small sentences, maybe a column inch, in the press for their plight.
When falsely accused men start to get the same sort of press coverage, for what are in effect TOTALLY identical stories of how the arrest and interrogation went down, THEN I will start to give a fuck.
Until then this is just more misandry, FRA or not.
BTW, the comments are more enlightening than the story itself, especially the modded up ones...
I'm wondering, where are all the feminists?
Why aren't they in this thread right now, telling us that men never, never, never, never, ever lie about being raped?
Why aren't they insisting, despite the lack of evidence, that Tanya Hutchinson is a rapist, and that this article and website are nothing less than rape apologia?
Where are you, hmmmm?
Come on. Come on out of the woodwork. I know you're there.
How strangely silent you remain when the genders are reversed. And you still expect us to believe your 'equality' lies?
Wouldn't it be scary if men's advocacy groups existed, who ALWAYS took the side of the man, insisted on punishing all women like Tanya Hutchinson - or perhaps YOU, NEXT TIME - despite what evidence says. Wouldn't that be scary? If a group with real lobbying power wanted to ignore due process and determination of guilt, and trumpeted everywhere that women accused of rape are always guilty, called for the accused's genital mutilation, and received public support for these views?
And to think, it could be you next time?
Yeah, maybe that gives you an idea of how it feels.
"How could a small woman date-rape a powerfully built, 6ft tall man?"
By using drugs, as the alleged victim claimed.
Afor,
We have run numerous stories here, that are very lengthy, that the Daily Mail has run from the other side. The fact is, we should care about ALL FRA's. If, for no other reason than we are decent human beings. We aren't in the business of playing the game the same as the "rape industry", or those feminists who call all men rapists.
We're better than that, and need to take the moral high ground in these situations. Otherwise, people like Denise Romano and Marcella Chester get exactly what they want. Ammunition that states we hate women, and don't care when they are the targets of male hatred.
Snark,
Excellent as always. The silence from those who are usually screaming the loudest, is very telling. So much for that vaunted "equality".
What I find rather interesting, is I can actually understand (but not condone) why he would have said he was raped:
"In the heat of the moment, I threatened to tell his wife about us.
"He left in his grey 4x4 and, although I was badly shaken by what had happened, I never expected to hear any more about it."
In this case, I would take that to mean he filed this claim in response to her threat. From the way that it is stated in the article, she threatened him first, never talked to him later that it was a heat of the moment comment, and he responded. I will admit, he responded badly, and filing a report he was raped, if he wasn't, is low and slimy.
He's a slimebag for cheating on his wife, but she's a slimebag too, as she knew he was married.
Interestingly, he isn't named, even after it has been determined to be false. What will be VERY interesting, is if they pursue charges against him, and if they do and he is convicted, what kind of sentence he will get. Something tells me any sentence he gets will be much larger than what is normally seen in these types of cases.
@ Archivist
I hear you, and I agree with you.
BUT
Not in this case.
Because despite the vast size of the article (compared to other FRA articles) the fact is that the alleged rapist, the feminazi columnist, and the paper itself conspired together to write a piece that was essentially nothing more than a vehicle for misandric propoganda.
If you do a search of the Court records, you find no record of Tanya Hutchinson having filed a defamation action against her accuser, despite the fact that nearly three years have passed.
Why is that?
If she is, as she says, innocent...
And you bring up several good points.
1. I missed that this is over 2 years old. I shouldn't have run this at all, as it isn't a current story.
2. There is quite the slant that because she is a poor little woman, that she is a bigger victim than any man that has gone through the same thing. And that is one of the biggest obstacles we have to overcome. This idea that when something happens to both men and women, that women are bigger victims.
How about we treat them all with the same compassion, and work to resolve the issue so it, if not eradicated completely, becomes such a rare occurrence, that when it does happen, there is believability to the claim.
@ Archivist
FRS *DOES* treat everyone with the same compassion and resolve.
FRS is (to the best of my knowledge) unique in this.
Agreed Afor,
I guess I was speaking more societally. I need to start being more specific. :)
"A few days later, police called at her home to tell her that the man had admitted she was telling the truth."
It sounds to me like he did more than just drop the charges, it seems like he's admitted they were false. Of course this could just be sloppy journalism.
@ Jared
She's lying, that is against all UK police procedure.
You get arrested on "suspicion of etc"
You get interrogated.
You get "Police bail"
You surrender to police bail and they either extend it, arrest and formally charge you, or tell you "no further action"
Only people the police are allowed to visit and inform like that is the alleged victim.
Like I said, piss poor misandric journalism, sob story, and a vehicle to bash males with.
Integrity score = zero
Can you imagine how different false rape claims would be treated if 99%+ of the victims were FEMALE????????
It would be a life sentence to make a false rape claim.
Also since guys on average are supposed to drink more than women I bet more guys are "date raped" than women.
I noticed that the comments are blocked on this article...wonder why??
The tone of this article is quite a bit more sympathetic towards the accused than is usual for such stories. I wonder why that is...
Notably nothing in the Daily Mail article about how much harm this does to real rape victims.
I noticed that the comments are blocked on this article...wonder why??
Anon,
Probably the fact that it is actually over 2 years old (I missed that when I posted it). I can't see comments being open that long on a story.
Randian,
It IS a little suspect in that regard, isn't it?
Females are natural born liars. After the man made the complaint she came up with this lie that she said to him that she was going to tell his wife to discredit his allegation and give him a motive for lying so the cops wouldn't believe him. Don't be so naive. Men hardly ever go to the cops even when they have been victims of crimes.
this woman is cashing in on the whole rape scenario for financial profit...she has sold it to the papers and been on tv...as someone close to this story i can say all she says it false. She should be ashamed of her actions for all those who really experience rape allegations
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