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Originally Posted by danielf
You don't happen to hate women do you?
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I'm criticising the strange differences in the verdicts of the two MEN. If Evans is decided to be guilty then automatically MacDonald also should be. They BOTH took advantage of her. MacDonald planned to, by taking her to the hotel, Evans acted on the spur of the moment after seeing MacDonald. Whatever Evans did or didn't do to her, MacDonald agreed/went along with it.
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Originally Posted by martyh
The way i see it is that the jury came to the conclusion that she gave consent for MacDonald but not for Evans .In other reports i have read it mentions some other men in the room recorded the attack on their phones so maybe that evidence was crucial in showing that she was incapable of giving consent to Evans and so he was found guilty of rape
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The two other men weren't in the room.
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The court was told the receptionist saw the two men who were waiting outside watching what was happening in the room through the window.
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The ability for her to give consent was based mainly on:-
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A hotel receptionist described the woman, who was 19 at the time and worked in a restaurant, as "extremely drunk" and said she was stumbling and slurring and occasionally grabbing hold of Mr McDonald to steady herself.
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How does that exclude MacDonald from culpability?