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Originally Posted by geordiesouth
What is more a senior police officer spoke of how the defense team tried to use the strategy that Grace may have been complicit in her own death. Consenting to violent sex even.
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I share your disgust here GS. It turns my stomach. Absolutely no shame.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-z...ly-proper.html
The judge said it was the duty of the defence lawyer to put it forward. The most intimate details of Millane's life and death were discussed in the courtroom but the intense focus on the 22-year-old's sexual history and preferences prompted outrage throughout the world.
"It is utterly irrelevant," victim advocate Ruth Money said. "Whether someone was participating in rough sex or not, what is relevant is the consent, and no one consented to dying at the hands of anyone."
The defence has been internationally questioned for arguing Millane's death was the result of "rough sex" that went wrong.
That was something Justice Moore addressed directly on Friday, describing the defence approach as "entirely proper".
"You have been publicly criticised, along with your colleagues, in social media and other media for doing so, and that is wrong," Justice Moore said.
"Strangling someone for 5-10 minutes until they die, is not rough sex," Det Insp Beard said. "If people are going to use that type of defence, all it actually does is repeatedly re-victimise the victim, and the victim's family."
We cannot allow victims to be treated like this in this country. Harriet Harman MP is campaigning to end the ‘rough sex’ defence. Let's all give this our full backing by signing;
https://www.change.org/p/uk-parliame...share_petition