August 14, 2006: Dahir Ibrahim is given a 10 year sentence at Birmingham Crown Court. He had been tried on multiple counts including a number of rapes; he was convicted of raping three prostitutes; one of them, Enith Walker, had died before the trial. She was also a drug addict.

This case is included to show how difficult it can be to determine the truth when if the alleged rapist is an odious human being, the alleged victim isn’t much better. Certainly Enith Walker wasn’t the type of girl any young man would have taken home to meet mother.

The Crown’s case was that Ibrahim had raped her in the early hours of March 20, 2003. On April 27, 2012, Ibrahim’s conviction for that rape was quashed by the Court of Appeal. I have no doubt he did rape this harlot, but a) she didn’t report the rape at the time and b) on January 8, 2003 she had made an acknowledged false allegation of indecent assault against an apparent stranger “to support an allegation by another woman” - ie another prostitute. Sound familiar?

In a later unrelated judgment (Riat, Doran, Wilson, Clare and Bennett) handed down July 11, 2012, the Court of Appeal alluded to this false allegation as “a previous false complaint of rape” - which is not quite the same thing.

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