Vanessa Scammell

So what of the police investigation leading up to charges being laid against Craig?

Firstly, it is shocking to me that the police failed to ascertain whether the fundamentals of the scene included a kiss between the characters of Columbia and Frankenfurter, because the fundamentals did include that kiss.

All it would involve would be to watch an archival video of the show.

That would be a representative video of the 2014 production, footage that was shot during that season of Rocky.

Yet the police did not attempt to secure footage of the 2014 Rocky Horror Show production.

Not only did they never ask the production company for footage, they did not subpoena the production company for footage.

For that matter, the journalists who interviewed the complainants did not ever investigate this avenue either.

It seems that there was no interest in knowing how the show ran each night and what the directed scenes actually consisted of.

Why not?

Because it didn't suit the narrative they were presenting?

Because it would have shown the absurdity of the allegations?

It turned out there were four archival videos of the complete Rocky Horror Show that were made throughout the tour of 2014.

Each archival video shows that there was a directed kiss between Frank and Columbia, either on the lips or the forehead.

Three of the four videos show Frank kiss Columbia on the lips, as directed, between sung lines for around one second.

Every actor who works in theatre knows that archival recordings of the show are made, yet it seems that not one of the complainants suggested to the police that this would be good material to view, material that could perhaps back up their allegations, or not.

In watching this archival footage, it is plain to see that a kiss existed between Frank and Columbia from the opening city to the last city of the tour.

The kiss was not unscripted or unnecessary, as various cast members told press and police.

As previously mentioned, the police and prosecutors seemed to ignore any evidence from other witnesses that didn't assist their case.

In the evidence presented to the police, C2 claimed that she spoke to the resident director about not wanting to do the kiss in the scene, but it turns out that the female resident director could not corroborate this.

She said that she was not spoken to about not wanting to do the kiss between the character of Columbia and Frank, and therefore she certainly didn't inform Craig of C2's wish for the kiss not to be included.