Benjamin Wilkins

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8549115.stm

The above story is about a police office, on duty, responding to an alleged domestic violence incidence. The woman was distressed and had been drinking.

He got 20 weeks suspended for 2 years for an offence today which is taken as rape (never mind the misconduct in public office).

Did he get 8 months (like Benjamin Wilkins) and put on the sexual offenders register, like a dangerous pervert for 10 years?

NO.

So if you are an MP, lawyer, policeman, on-message with the influential in-crowd you get off.

All the silly offences people are getting arrested, charged and even convicted for now (name calling, harassment...). What's happening?

Britain is now a banana republic.

This man did nothing wrong and i hope his girlfriend gets whats coming to her.

What someone does in the privacy of their own home is private. I would understand if these girls were under 16 years old but all were consenting adults. He should appeal!

And the judge is a disgrace to the justice system.

These DVDs weren't distributed but were secret and hidden away. It is thought crime - the videos merely serve as an adjunct to his visual memories - an aide mémoire. Who was going to know? It is an invasion of his privacy to rummage around his personal effects which he took precautions to avoid becoming public.

Moving on... what defence does a man have now when a woman can accuse a man of rape, by getting herself drunk, after the fact?

PLOD: I'm arresting you on suspicion of "acquaintance" rape by plying the woman with alcohol so she couldn't give consent. Your word against her's you see... (A crime brought in by the Labour Government in 2008.)

BLOKE: No way, I've got a covert video to show it was all consensual.

PLOD: OK I'm arresting you for "Voyeurism". (A crime brought in by the Labour Government in 2004. Wiki it.)

Anti-male laws by any chance? Litigation culture?

When and where can we see these DVDs , I really hope that Kate Silverton and Natasha Kaplinsky are on them !

I think the sentence passed down on this guy is outrageous. Eight months in jail and 10 years on the sex-offenders register? Our justice system seriously needs to get a grip. These tapes were made on private property for his own personal use! Not for publication and, as far as we can tell, not for blackmail. The only reason the women found out is that the guy's girlfriend sent a dvd to one of them, so who is really responsible for the 'victim' feeling 'violated, dirty and sick'? Either way, is a man reliving an encounter in his own mind all that different from doing so with the benefit of video footage? No question he broke the law (though I was a little surprised that this is a criminal act at all) but is he really a danger to the public such that he takes up valuable prison space, when there are dangerous lunatics walking the street 'on licence'? I'll say it again, GET A GRIP.