Truth about Rape Xmas Campaign

Campaigners demand the dismissal of judges

The Truth about Rape Campaign is demanding the dismissal of judges who fail to implement the law and continue to allow rapists to get off scot free. The first judge to be targetted in their Xmas Campaign, is judge Michael Hucker who threw out the case of five footballers being tried for the horrific gang-raping of a 15 year old girl, last week. This judge dismissed the case on the grounds that he considered the victim an unreliable witness even though he admitted that the men's behaviour was "disgraceful" and amounted to a "gang-bang". The campaign has discovered that Judge Michael Hucker dismissed another rape case in 2003, which involved a 13 year old boy raping a 13 and 15 year old girl, on the grounds that he did not believe that they could be raped whilst they slept and that he has a history of handing out unduly lenient sentences to rapists when they are convicted by juries.

The campaign is also demanding that victims should not be subjected to multiple questioning by different barristers in cases of gang rape and that victims should be allowed their own representation in court.

Further information is at www.truthaboutrape.co.uk/christmas2004.html

The campaign can be contacted by phoning Lynne Harne 07981 744236