Michelle Diskin Bates 🎀
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No...BBC, these are NOT rape victims until someone is proved guilty of raping them! With the greatest respect they are claimants or accusers until then. Innocent until proven guilty...not half guilty, awaiting a trial! #BBC
Could be my son or daughter.
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1:26 pm · 29 Apr 2019 · Twitter for iPad
or brother 
which of course she omits
Michelle Diskin Bates 🎀
@Michelle_Diskin
NO NO NO...unless trials are not needed when rape is claimed...they are not ATTACKERS either!
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WHAT issues within Barry George’s charactor compelled him to commit serious violent offences against women?
“Karen Gray was a 20-year-old university languages student, when she was attacked and raped by George in the stairwell of a block of flats in West London.
But the Old Bailey jury were not permitted to hear the details of his vile attack on Miss Gray as she reached home - as it may have prejudiced his trial.
George was a stranger who followed her in the street, told her he was in the RAF, tried to hold her hand and spoke a few German phrases to impress her.
She thought he was a harmless oddball, 'a sad case' and didn't feel threatened or frightened by him.
But when he followed her into the block of flats where her mother lived, he changed.
The Old Bailey jury heard that George was incapable of planning or carrying out a series of actions without panicking or triggering an epileptic fit.
Later, after the murder of Jill Dando, a handwritten note found in his chaotic and cluttered flat provided a clue to what happened next.
It read:
'I have difficulty handling rejection. I become angry ... it starts a chain of events which is beyond my control.'https://www.standard.co.uk/news/barry-george-raped-me-by-my-mums-door-then-said-sorry-6890558.html“The police came pretty quickly and asked all the neighbours if they had seen anything but no one had. I went back to university and just got on with my life.'
A year later, George was caught after sexually assaulting another woman. He matched the description given by Miss Gray and a police officer remembered her attacker had used a German phrase.
He asked George if he spoke German and the suspect repeated exactly the same phrases.
When confronted, he broke down and confessed.
He was initially charged with rape but because of a dispute over forensic evidence, the police reluctantly accepted his plea to attempted rape, partly to spare the victim from giving evidence.
