Bláthnaid Raleigh

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Talking Bollox Podcast · Episode 276 w/ Blathnaid Raleigh · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

And I was like, you don't

you don't fucking get this this is my life like you know I had taken time off work even down to really simple things that yeah I was very fortunate that it was grand for me but there's a lot of other people who that wouldn't be okay for you know again people might know they might have kids at home you know all that and it was just ripped from me I wasn't even given another date it was just you'll get it when you get it you'll hear when you hear you know and it was yeah I was like and at that stage I thought I'm not doing this I'm done

this is a sign nothing good is going to come of this nothing good has come of it I'm not like I'm done with this I need my life back because I had put my life on hold I wanted to go back and do a masters and I kept saying I'm not doing it yet because I don't want to do it when the trial is on because I'm not giving them this as well I'm not giving them you know and I had waited like all these years and I just kept snowballing and then I

Yeah, you're not even given a date.

But then we did get going.

So that was the October.

And then my trial started in April.

So I had about maybe six, seven months further on from the original date I was given.

But it was cruel.

Like, it was a cruel thing.

You feel like a puppet and everybody else is just controlling your life.

you have to go up and you know what I mean you'll get class examined and it's just like no wonder women don't go forward go forward yeah and you say like okay he gets a sentence and that's that's brilliant and like he got a very strong sentence he got nine years with one suspended for interdiction a

bond or something so eight years which was extremely strong for a first-time conviction and an incident in isolation they wouldn't normally get as normally they get maybe four years for something like that but like it comes with a life sentence for me like I did the five years before and I'll do the years after it like

you know there's no real validation in that but yeah it's it's I don't I look sometimes and I think why would you come for it and like there's only five percent of sexual assaults and rapes reported in the country and you think that's why five percent is tiny you know why why would you

So that's 5% that report.

So what's the conviction rate then is going to be tiny?

Yeah.

Like when I look back, do I think like, oh, if I was to do it again, would I not report?

I definitely would.

But that's probably because I'm thick.

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