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US fighter pilot avoids British trial after raping a woman in England
- rbanffy 4mo agoI believe they forgot to mention she, AFAIK, has a doctorate.
- benj111 4mo agoIs that relevant?
- rbanffy 4mo agoI think it makes it painting her as someone trying to take advantage of the rapist even more ridiculous.
- benj111 4mo agoHow so? Isn't dishonesty positively correlated with intelligence? And having a doctorate could imply a low paid job as much as a higher one. There's nothing about having a doctorate that makes you more morally upstanding. For the record. I don't think she was trying to take advantage. But I don't think having a doctorate is relevant to the assessment.
- benj111 4mo agoThere seems to be missing explanations here. The CPS are the ones to decide where to pursue a case, not the police. But then there's a major issue of the judiciary and police not really doing their jobs properly, so it doesn't surprise me that this happened.
- pseudohadamard 4mo agoEven under UK law and the UK court system their conviction rate is appallingly low, https://victimscommissioner.org.uk/news/the-distressing-truth-is-that-if-you-are-raped-in-britain-today-your-chances-of-seeing-justice-are-slim/ https://victimscommissioner.org.uk/news/the-distressing-trut..., to the point where the victims commissioner described rape as effectively decriminalised, https://victimscommissioner.org.uk/document/annual-report-of-the-victims-commissioner-2019-to-2020/ https://victimscommissioner.org.uk/document/annual-report-of.... So he may have got an even lighter or no sentence if tried under UK jurisdiction.
- everfrustrated 4mo agoIf he was in the military I presume military police has some jurisdiction. I would also presume there's some mutual law where if a foreign military member is on another countries soil (if you're in the military you can't just go on holiday to a foreign country without extra paperwork) that allows counties to retain their military courts jurisdiction even on foreign soil. That doesn't mean he gets off - just that the trial would be under US MP law. To be honest, the consequences of which would be higher for him than under UK law.
- jfengel 4mo agoThey already held the court martial. He got six months in prison. Way less than he'd have gotten under UK law.
- stefantalpalaru 4mo ago[dead]
- zeristor 4mo agoHundreds of years ago there used to be ecclesiastical courts in England. They were treated differently from those not of the church. This case just happens to remind me.
- pyuser583 4mo agoDoes the UK have the power to try him also? If this took place in the states, he could be tried in both military and civilian courts. Also the article seems to imply the UK does better at trying rape than the US military. I doubt that.