I have picked up on a
recent news story of interest to everyone, I believe – FALSE
ALLEGATIONS.
(All comments on laws relate to the UK only)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e…es/6037701.stm
This news story is exceptional for a number of reasons and highlights
the problems men face in the UK.
1) After sex, a man is accused of rape.
Under the current law in the UK, the accused man is named, the female
‘victim’ remains anonymous. This applies to accusations of sexual and
other abuse against children as well. The inevitable result of that
publicity is a ‘witch-hunt’ and the accused man is persecuted,
threatened and otherwise bullied and in many cases either lynched or
commit suicide. This is even before he has been to trial. Many,
perhaps most cases collapse before trial. In rape cases barely 6%
reach a conclusion with the accused man found guilty, around 300 per
year. There has been a massive jump in rape accusations in the last
few years, but the actual level of convictions has stayed at around
300 per year. The feminists argue that the Police and courts are
failing women. I argue that women are swamping the system with false
accusations knowing they can destroy a man without actually having to
stand trial or be named – the damage is done immediately.
2) The highlighted case is extraordinary because in the overwhelming
majority of failed accusations, there is no punishment for the
accuser. Compare the Police’s response to somebody who makes a false
999 call – extremely likely to be prosecuted for wasting Police time.
Yet make a false allegation and ruin a man’s life, normally no
punishment.
3) This woman actually received 6 months in prison. I would argue that
that kind of sentence is not a deterrent. The man could have got 10-15
years if found guilty, the woman should get a similar punishment. Then
it would act as a deterrent. This woman is a danger to all men.
4) Overwhelmingly the UK prisons are full of men – only around 4000
women out of a prison population of 75000 approx. The UK prison
service is at capacity. Police stations are having to use their
custody cells for prisoners. Yet around 8000 of the men are remanded
in custody until their trial. many will be found innocent and have no
claim for wrongful imprisonment. They can only claim if found guilty,
locked up and then released on appeal.
5) Do men and women receive the same punishment for the same crime?
Overwhelmingly the answer is NO. Not from me, but from the sentencing
guidelines council who monitor these things. They highlight, for
example, the perception that women convicted of manslaughter receive
longer sentences than men.
http://www.sentencing-guidelines.gov…nslaughter.pdf
(specifically point 7 on page 4)
The reality is the opposite. they monitored cases where spouses killed
each other and claimed provocation – it reduces murder to
manslaughter. In the UK, a conviction for murder is a mandatory life
sentence (although up for discussion at present and there are
proposals to introduce a first, second and third degree murder)
manslaughter is at the discretion of the Judge. When a man killed his
female partner, he got an average of five years. When the woman killed
her male partner she received an average of 18 months.
A Home Office study in 2003 monitored cases from initial stop and
search by the Police through arrest charge and sentencing on an age,
gender and nationality basis. It is widely believed that the police
are institutionally racist and this was confirmed by the study – for
example – a black or Afro-Caribbean person was SIX times more likely
than a white person to be stopped and searched by the Police – SIX
times more likely is sufficient to say that the Police are
institutionally racist. So how would you describe the system when a
man is TWENTY times more likely than a woman to be stopped and
searched?
They followed cases through to trial and determined that gender was a
significant predictor of severity of sentence – they stopped short of
saying the system favoured women, which it obviously does! When
comparing similar crimes and similar severity of crimes, the men on
average got custodial sentences where the women got community
sentences. Alternatively, where both went to prison, the men got
longer sentences than women. Newspapers in the UK have run campaigns
to stop ANY woman being jailed! .
Enough for now!
Tags: allegations, discrimination, False, female, gender, human rights, male
