Interesting viewpoint below. MP was found not guilty and spent all his life savings on what seems like a very dubious case yet isn't a "victim". Financially ruined and smeared. No compensation (well not more than legal aid rate) and no anonymity. Seems a bit harsh to me.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/13/nigel-evans-trial-wrongly-accused-victims-rape
But after a series of high-profile rape trials that have delivered "not guilty" verdicts,culminating in Nigel Evans' acquittal on nine charges last week, it is the acquitted who are seen as the new victims. "The police and the CPS are dragging the names of decent, honest, innocent people through the dirt on a weekly basis,"wrote one Telegraph columnist. "And it has to stop."
MPs led by David Davis are on the offensive against the Crown Prosecution Service, and there are renewed calls to grant anonymity to alleged rapists, a privilege no one proposes for accused murderers and which would radically reduce the chances of other victims coming forward. The police are overcompensating because of their failures over Savile, so the new narrative goes, and this overzealousness needs to be driven back.
This represents a troublesome loss of perspective
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/13/nigel-evans-trial-wrongly-accused-victims-rape
But after a series of high-profile rape trials that have delivered "not guilty" verdicts,culminating in Nigel Evans' acquittal on nine charges last week, it is the acquitted who are seen as the new victims. "The police and the CPS are dragging the names of decent, honest, innocent people through the dirt on a weekly basis,"wrote one Telegraph columnist. "And it has to stop."
MPs led by David Davis are on the offensive against the Crown Prosecution Service, and there are renewed calls to grant anonymity to alleged rapists, a privilege no one proposes for accused murderers and which would radically reduce the chances of other victims coming forward. The police are overcompensating because of their failures over Savile, so the new narrative goes, and this overzealousness needs to be driven back.
This represents a troublesome loss of perspective