Another Court Case For Rape Where The Victims Names

[trt]

are not disclosed, but the accused is!

One is 62 now and it happened to her when she was 15, something is not right here!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540555/Coronation-Street-star-Bill-Roache-court-child-sex-trial.html

[jno]

the power of the press... though I wonder if it matters so much nowadays, when people get news at random from the internet. Reports in local papers, if these still exist, may not reach much of an audience.

I was referring to your earlier suggestion of not publishing the defendant's name before conviction, though. If Donnellan's hadn't been, it would have been the worse for him; which is why I think it right that names should be published.

In his case of course, he actively wanted the case heard in public. The complainant had originally reported the matter not to the police but to the university, in hopes he would be expelled (if that's the word at uni level). The authorities had apparently seen nothing wrong with this but offered him a plea bargain. He was horrified and felt the only way to avoid secret sanction for something he hadn't done was to have the case heard properly in court.