False rape claim destroyed my life
A YOUNG man falsely accused of rape has told how he went into hiding to escape retribution.
Grant Bowers, 20, says he still has to visit his parents’ home in the dark, and has lost friends following the false accusation from Sarah-Jane Hilliard, 21.
He suffered verbal abuse, threats and attacks on his flat and was forced to move following his arrest in July 2008 for a crime he did not commit.
The ordeal has also caused him to lose confidence, left him untrusting of young women and often makes him physically sick.
Hilliard was found guilty of perverting the course of justice at a trial last year, and on Monday she was given a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and 300 hours of community service.
Mr Bowers, who faced up to ten years in prison because of Hilliard’s lies, said she has got off lightly.
He said: “That’s not even a slap on the wrist.
“I was hoping she’d go to prison, or to hospital at the very least.
“She’s been let off and I’m still having to sneak around because there are still people after me who think I did it.”
His dad Tony, 48, added: “I’m dumbfounded.
“My son was facing up to ten years in prison for rape on the strength of her lies.
“He’s lost his freedom, yet she’s still got hers.”
Hilliard told cops Mr Bowers raped her in the toilets at Basildon train station, even though she had been the one who dragged him into the loos and initiated sex.
He was arrested at his family home and spent eight days on bail until police discovered Hilliard had been lying and dropped the charges.
Link: http://www.basildonrecorder.co.uk/news/echo/5013217.False_rape_claim_destroyed_my_life/
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So typical, and so wrong. Yet there are a ton of feminists who insist that a false rape claim can't compare with a rape.
Well, he has now had the door opened on a series of un-lose-able civil cases against his FRA...
dog, see rabbit...
AfOR, would you please give us your perspective on how easy it would be for him to attract qualified counsel to take his case? (If this had occurred in the US, that could be a major hurdle, depening on whether the young woman is essentially judgment-proof.)
http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/HMCSCourtFinder/GetForm.do?court_forms_id=338
Doesn't need counsel. Form N1
She has to prove to a Judge that what she said WAS NOT defamatory.
Win. Judge awards compo, injunctive relief with penal notice attached.
She breaches terms of injunction, is arrested for that, and simultaneously breaks the licence terms for her suspended sentence.
Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect 2000 bucks from womyns aid..
I think you are right that if men started doing this as a matter of course, it would go a long way toward ending the false rape epidemic.
Ayup, and you know who would do all the work of publicising it for us?
womyn.
Break the "gender feminist / law enforcement misinformation Alliance" that has fostered and brought about this false Rape accusation culture.
Get gender feminism out of our legal system..they are perverting it!!
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