October 19, 2007: Philip Webster, Finance Director for Hull City Football Club, finds a message on the phone of his 14 year old stepdaughter; it indicates she is about to or has been having sex with her boyfriend. He is angry, but tells her mother to deal with it. The girl tells her mother she has been interfered with sexually by him. Then she accuses him of raping her twice.
Webster is charged and tried, but the jury fails to reach a verdict. He is retried at Leeds Crown Court where he is convicted and given a ten year sentence. On March 21, 2011, his convictions are quashed by the Court Of Appeal. Later he is refused compensation for the time he spent in prison, but this judgment makes interesting reading because inter alia the defence suggested that one of the alleged rapes could not have happened as claimed as “She was wearing tight, elasticated, jodhpurs, into her hips, which she said had only been pulled down by a couple of inches. In such circumstances, the defence suggested that the appellant, who was a big man, could not have penetrated the complainant in a standing position from behind.”
Without wishing to sound frivolous, Counsel could have arranged for a demonstration using a fetish model. Whatever, it is clear what happened in this case, once again a man’s life is destroyed by three little words from the lips of a child.
In spite of the difference between the ages of the falsely accused, the reader might like to compare the above with the case of Elizabeth Paige Coast.
One further comparison, a case in Italy generated more heat than light when discussing the clothing of the alleged victim.
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