Alison Saunders (53) is a barrister and a career civil servant who joined the Crown Prosecution Service (‘CPS’) at its inception in 1986. The CPS is the taxpayer-funded body which decides who’s charged with criminal offences, so it’s the body which has been responsible for launching (at huge cost to taxpayers) a series of show trials of prominent men, many of them elderly, on charges of sexual offences – including rape. Most have been acquitted on all or almost all counts.
Few of these trials would have taken place in more enlightened times, as the quality of evidence is almost invariably either woefully poor or non-existent. Some alleged offences date back 40 years or more. The women alleging the offences retain anonymity even when the cases fail, while the men’s identities are revealed across the mass media as soon as they’re charged.
The women stand to receive large sums for compensation from the public purse if their cases succeed. Women making false allegations have everything to gain, and nothing to lose. Some of the men have been financially ruined by legal costs, and it’s a wonder that none of them have yet committed suicide. It’s surely only a matter of time before one or more of them does so. Doubtless feminists will dance on their graves.
The 2010 Conservative-led coalition agreement committed the coalition to re-introduce anonymity for suspects of sexual assaults and rape, but the coalition reneged on the commitment once in office.
All you need to know about Saunders’s ideologically-driven views on how the law should treat possible perpetrators and possible victims of rape can be found in a Guardian interview from January 2012 (link below), written almost two years before she was appointed head of the CPS, as Director of Public Prosecutions, in November 2013. Her predecessor in that role was Keir Starmer. In December 2013 the Labour Party announced that Starmer would lead an enquiry into changing the law to give further protection to victims in cases of rape and child abuse – which would, of course, mean less protection for alleged perpetrators, overwhelmingly men. It would be unthinkable that such an enquiry could recommend the introduction of anonymity for people suspected of sexual offences.
The Guardian interview of Alison Saunders:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jan/30/rape-victims-acquittals-chief-prosecutor
An extract:
In an interview with the Guardian, Saunders said she believed jurors were coming to court with preconceptions about women that affected the way they considered evidence. These beliefs need to be challenged if more trials aren’t to end in acquittals.
Saunders said prosecutors and detectives involved in rape cases were now trained to challenge myths and stereotypes, particularly around women who have been drinking, or those who say they have been sexually assaulted by a current or former partner.
“We have done lots of training … but there has never been that debate on a wider social basis. You can see how some members of the jury can come along with preconceived ideas, they might still subscribe to the myths and stereotypes that we have all had a go at busting…
“There have been a lot of developments about what judges can say to jurors. Judges cannot do rape cases unless they are specialists and they have been through the myth-busting courses.”
So, the life experiences and opinions of jurors aren’t adequate for the challenge facing them, to weigh up evidence and come to a rational decision? You can be very sure that the ‘myths and stereotypes’ aren’t in jurors’ minds, but in the minds of ‘prosecutors and detectives involved in rape cases’ who are now ‘trained’ and ‘specialist’ judges who ‘have been though the myth-busting courses’.
You can be sure those courses will be riddled with feminist propaganda, stressing that women should NEVER bear the slightest responsibility for putting themselves in risky situations. And women’s accounts should ALWAYS be believed… even when they’re unbelievable. This is nothing less than a feminist-inspired attack on the jury system, and a witch hunt of prominent men.
Who, you might reasonably ask, would be most interested in becoming ‘trained’ and ‘specialist’ prosecutors, detectives and judges? Ideologically-driven people, surely.
Laura Kuenssberg recently interviewed Ms Saunders for Newsnight. It’s the file dated 27 February on our YouTube channel – link below – and I should like to take this opportunity to thank the gentleman behind the ‘ManWomanMyth’ and ‘Humanity Bites’ channels for editing our pieces and posting them onto our channel:
There are three sections to the piece, all worth watching:
0:00 – 0:27 Introduction
0:28 – 4:02 Background (much of it is absurd feminist-inspired narrative, but stick with it – typical of BBC output)
4:03 – 9:03 Alison Saunders interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg. The footage is cut short where the interview moves onto an unrelated topic.
