Vanessa Scammell

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In response to these comments, Steve Wybrow QC has since told the Criminal Law Committee that he is...

Has the presumption of innocence been eroded?

Did the MeToo movement impact on the judgment presented by the presiding magistrate in Craig's case?

Should these sort of gross inventions presented in court not be held up as an example of an extremely dishonest complainant?

In contrast, the magistrate was quick to call Mr. Littlemore out on his robust cross-examination, a cross-examination that seemingly caused C2 to unravel.

cross-examination that got to the truth.

Did the cultural movement of believing all women and the cultural movement of Me Too infiltrate the criminal matter that Craig was being tried for?

Did the magistrate protect the victim even when that witness committed perjury?

Even when there was hard evidence that she made outright lies to journalists and to police and then in court?

When those lies are refuted by the person who was alleged to have been assaulted?

The predominant headlines upon Craig's acquittal were not about the lack of reliability of any witness, not that he was not guilty, but that the complainants were brave and honest.

A blanket statement that was so obviously aimed at protecting the complainants' reputations, leaving an innocent man who had just been found not guilty of 13 charges wondering how on earth he was to ever rehabilitate.

Thank you for listening to Me Too.

My name is Vanessa Scammell, and please join me for episode six, where charges laid against Craig McLaughlin in relation to his castmate C3 are looked at within the lens of the physical backstage culture of the Rocky Horror Show of 2014.

Disclaimer.

Please note that names have been changed for legal and privacy reasons.

The main complainants will be known as C1, C2 and C3.

Hello, my name is Vanessa Scammell and welcome back to Episode 4.

Back in 2017, when the Me Too movement was at its frenzied peak, three of Craig McLaughlin's former colleagues from the 2014 Rocky Horror Show production decided to go to the press to air allegations of harassment, bullying and indecent assault against him.