Every pair of eyes is on you and judging you. No-jury trials would give us better hope of justice
| Published date | 29 May 2023 |
| Publication title | Daily Record, The / Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) |
However, many lawyers warn it could lead to miscarriages of justice and a planned boycott by Scots bar associations will make it unworkable.
Esther lived in Lybster, Caithness, at the time of the alleged attack on June 6, 2011.
Her case was exceptional ly controversial as she was arrested for "wasting police time" and handcuffed by Northern Constabulary a week after alleging a foreign oil worker raped her.
Police had allowed him to leave the country.
Shamefully, Esther was forced to remove her clothing in a room with an open door and wear a police issue T-shirt and shorts that were "manky" while detained and questioned.
After the case was reviewed by the National Rape Investigation Unit of Police Scotland, set up in 2013, it was established there had been enough evidence to charge the man.
He was by then living in the US but working in Africa and police mounted a successful operation to intercept him at Heathrow...
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