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Liam Allan, a 19-year-old wrongly accused, was nearly jailed due to overlooked evidence. Prosecutor called it ‘sheer incompetence’ in the justice system.
A Student Wrongly Accused Of Rape – Liam Allan
8 nov 2023
The collapsed trial of Liam Allan reveals a widespread problem in the legal system, which criminal defence lawyers have been warning about for some time. Liam was accused of rape and sexual assault, but his defense was that any sexual contact between himself and his former girlfriend was consensual. The Prosecution’s case relied heavily on the ex girlfriends account, which is a common situation in sexual assault allegations that often occur in private settings without any independent witnesses.
It took two years from Liam’s arrest for his trial to proceed in the Crown Court. Prior to the trial, his lawyers had repeatedly asked the Prosecution to disclose text and social media messages between Liam and his ex girlfriend from her phone. Despite clear guidelines on disclosure, the officer in charge of the case failed to hand over this potentially useful information to the defence team. It wasn’t until the trial started that this material was brought to the attention of the Prosecuting barrister, who ordered it to be handed over immediately. The messages cleared Liam of all charges. His ex girlfriend and accuser had messaged him asking for sexual contact and spoke of a desire for violent sex and rape fantasies. In other messages to friends, she stated that no crime had been committed.
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Timecodes
00:00 – Intro
04:44 – How did you get accused
13:56 – How did you prepare your defence
20:52 – Did anyone treat you differently
24:21 – Did you fear the possibility of being convicted
26:03 – Would you get a lesser sentence if you pleaded guilty
28:23 – Going to trial
38:43 – The lack of disclosing material
42:06 – Did the messages show why she accused you
43:59 – Was the accuser brought to justice
45:08 – Was the police incompetent or malicious
46:32 – Has there been any lessons learned by the public
51:50 – Dropped rape cases
58:03 – What action did you take against the police
1:01:17 – The impact on relationships
1:06:19 – Do you want to see the accuser to be prosecuted
1:08:30 – Outro
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Educational
Students accused of rape may be unfairly punished.
Incompetence
Lack of ability to do something successfully or as it should be done:
Management have demonstrated almost unbelievable incompetence in their handling of the dispute.
allegations/accusations of incompetence
Opposite competence
Cambridge Dictionary
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ex‧on‧e‧rate
to state officially that someone who has been blamed for something is not guilty
exonerate somebody from/of something
He was totally exonerated of any blame.
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A 22-year-old British student wants to sue London police now that he has been acquitted of raping a young woman in 2015. Liam Allan himself always maintained his innocence, but for two years he lived with judgmental looks and a 12-year prison sentence hanging over his head. While the Metropolitan Police (MET) simply held the evidence that exonerated him.
Allan’s nightmare began in September 2015, when the ‘victim’ went to the police. “It started with a little lie and it got totally out of hand. It became a story that she had to stick to in the long run. She lost all control,” he told the Mail on Sunday newspaper. Allan was arrested and then released on bail.
Weak case
When he called the London police at the end of February to find out about the case, he was told it was a weak file. “I had not yet been charged and the inspector in question – Mark Azariah – told me that he had forwarded everything to the public prosecutor. Without saying exactly what he had written, he said he had advised against prosecuting me.” (read more below)
But a few hours later, while returning from a lecture at the University of Greenwich, the psychology student was told he had been charged with sexual assault and six counts of rape. “I can’t put into words how that feels,” the young man says. “It’s something that happens to famous people sometimes, but you can’t imagine that something like that would happen to you.”
Messages
Last week, however, the case suddenly collapsed like a house of cards when it was revealed that the police had not passed on crucial evidence to the prosecution and the defence. The MET had gone through tens of thousands of messages on the phone of the ‘victim’ and labelled them “too personal” for the court. It was only when prosecutor Jerry Hayes demanded to see them and also passed them on to the defence that the true facts of the case came to light. After all, the reports revealed that the sex had been consensual. (read more below)
“It wasn’t that it was against my will or anything like that,” reads a verbatim message of 3 September 2015 that the woman sent to a friend. That was before she went to the police. Other messages showed her fantasising about bondage and rape and asking for more sex after the ‘rape’. “Sometimes sex is the top priority. I’m not kidding, I always think with my ****, lol.” and “You know, it’s always nice to be assaulted without breaking the law in the process.”
Allan now plans to sue the London police and the Crown Prosecution Service. “I want an apology, I’ve lost two years of my life,” he says. “There has been no direct contact with me yet and that is disappointing. I even want to help prevent a repeat of such acts.”
Scandal
Meanwhile, more and more voices are calling for an independent investigation into the scandal. The MET says it has already started an internal investigation. The Public Prosecutor’s Office officially announced that it would not be prosecuting Allan “due to a lack of evidence”. (read more below)
Allan also pleads for the anonymity of suspects of sexual offences to be guaranteed, as long as they have not been convicted or unless a judge decides otherwise. “I should never have been named. It has destroyed my life and it is still not over,” he says.
Despite what she did to him, he has no intention of revealing the identity of the woman who put him through hell. “She too needs to get justice. I know what it is like when you are denied it.”
Een 22-jarige Britse student wil de politie van Londen vervolgen nu hij vrijgesproken is voor de verkrachting van een jonge vrouw in 2015. Zelf hield Liam Allan zijn onschuld altijd staande, maar hij leefde twee jaar lang met veroordelende blikken en een celstraf van 12 jaar boven het hoofd. Terwijl de Metropolitan Police (MET) het bewijs dat hem vrijpleitte, gewoon in handen had.
De nachtmerrie van Allan begon in september 2015, toen het ‘slachtoffer’ naar de politie stapte. “Het begon met een klein leugentje en het liep helemaal uit de hand. Het werd een verhaal waar ze zich op den duur moest aan houden. Ze raakte alle controle kwijt”, vertelde hij aan de krant Mail on Sunday. Allan werd gearresteerd en daarna weer vrijgelaten op borg.
Zwak dossier
Toen hij eind februari de Londense politie belde om te horen hoe het met de zaak stond, kreeg hij te horen dat het een zwak dossier was. “Ik was nog niet in staat van beschuldiging gesteld en de inspecteur in kwestie – Mark Azariah – vertelde dat hij alles had doorgestuurd naar het Openbaar Ministerie. Zonder te zeggen wat hij precies had geschreven, zei hij dat hij had geadviseerd om me niet te vervolgen.” (lees hieronder verder)
Maar enkele uren later, terwijl hij terugkwam van een college aan de universiteit van Greenwich, kreeg de psychologiestudent te horen dat hij tóch werd aangeklaagd: voor aanranding en zes verkrachtingen. “Ik kan onmogelijk in woorden uitdrukken hoe dat voelt”, vertelt de jongeman. “Het is iets wat bekende mensen soms overkomt, maar je kan je niet voorstellen dat zoiets ook met jou gebeurt.”
Berichten
Vorige week stortte het dossier echter plots als een kaartenhuisje in elkaar, toen bekend werd dat de politie cruciaal bewijsmateriaal niet had doorgespeeld aan het Openbaar Ministerie en de verdediging. De MET had tienduizenden berichten doorgenomen op de telefoon van het ‘slachtoffer’ en die als “te persoonlijk” bestempeld voor de rechtbank. Het was pas toen openbare aanklager Jerry Hayes eiste om ze te mogen zien en ze ook doorspeelde aan de verdediging, dat de ware toedracht van de zaak aan het licht kwam. Uit de berichten bleek immers dat de seks met wederzijdse toestemming was gebeurd. (lees hieronder verder)
“Het was niet dat het tegen mijn zin was of zo”, staat er letterlijk te lezen in een bericht van 3 september 2015 dat de vrouw aan een vriendin stuurde. Dat was vóór ze naar de politie stapte. Andere berichtjes toonden dat ze fantaseerde over bondage en verkrachting en om meer seks vroeg na de ‘verkrachting’. “Soms is seks de hoogste prioriteit. Ik maak geen grapje, ik denk altijd met mijn ****, lol.” en “Weet je, het is altijd leuk om aangerand te worden zonder dat je daarbij de wet overtreedt.”
Allan is nu van plan om de Londense politie en het Openbaar Ministerie te vervolgen. “Ik wil excuses, ik ben twee jaar van mijn leven kwijt”, zegt hij. “Er is nog geen direct contact geweest met mij en dat is teleurstellend. Ik wil zelfs helpen om een herhaling van dergelijke feiten te voorkomen.”
Schandaal
Intussen gaan ook steeds meer stemmen op voor een onafhankelijk onderzoek naar het schandaal. De MET is naar eigen zeggen al met een intern onderzoek begonnen. Het Openbaar Ministerie liet officieel weten dat het Allan niet zal vervolgen “wegens een gebrek aan bewijsmateriaal”. (lees hieronder verder)
Allan pleit er daarnaast ook voor om de anonimiteit van verdachten van zedenfeiten te waarborgen, zolang ze niet veroordeeld zijn of tenzij een rechter anders beslist. “Ik had nooit genoemd mogen worden. Het heeft mijn leven verwoest en het is nog altijd niet voorbij”, vertelt hij.
Ondanks wat ze hem heeft aangedaan, is hij niet van plan om de identiteit te onthullen van de vrouw die hem door de hel deed gaan. “Ook zij moet het recht krijgen. Ik weet wat het is als het je ontzegd wordt.”
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