The right decision? At best he's a sick motherfucker that should be ashamed of himself, at worst he's getting away with rape based on some shady shit his lawyers pulled with an ex-partners of the accuser. Either way he deserves to be shit on and rightfully so.
Utter nonsense, totally the right decision, if his defence team in original trial were semi competent then he would never have gone to jail.
Uk law says drunk consent is still consent (R v Bree 2007).
Lack of memory does not mean that you cannot consent to sex, it just means that you cannot remember if you did consent or not. Not remembering = reasonable doubt = not guilty.
Nah. The dude fucked a willing girl who was sober enough, that's the end of the story. It wasn't extra witnesses that swayed the jury, the original evidence was enough to have him be found innocent regardless. The additional witness stuff is being blown way out of proportion.
PKS talking more sense than Brando here. The only point I would disagree on, is that the prosecution couldn't prove beyond all reasonable doubt that she was not willing.
As I said above, he should never have been found guilty in the first trial.
Evans admitted he didn't say a word to her before, during or after the event,
Irrelevant, McDonald asked the girl "can my mate join in?"
had to steal a key to the room while his brother/friends were trying to videotape it from outside and left via a fire escape so he wouldn't be seen.
All irrelevant details to the issue of whether the girl consented and whether Evans had a reasonable belief that she consented
Also she was was sober enough based on what?
CCTV footage for one:
She was clearly coherent enough to remember she had forgotten a pizza, walk back on her own to retrieve it and walk back to the hotel.
Here is what UK law says must be proven in rape cases:
(i) That X was not consenting (because she was incapable through intoxication);
(ii) That Evans did not reasonably believe X was consenting.
The woman woke up alone in a hotel room with no memory of what happened.
Waking up the next morning after drinking alcohol with no memory does not mean that you lacked the ability to give consent.
I have woken up alone in my own bed with no memory of getting home, phone has been on charge, clothes folded on the back of a chair, keys hanging up where they should be. Clearly I was lucid enough to somehow get back from a nightclub safely. All alcohol amnesia means is that you can't remember how you got home.
Her having no memory of the night before does not guarantee she lacked the abiliy to give consent.
It really is that simple