Chapter 1: What allegations against Craig McLachlan are explored in this episode?
But he was directed to kiss down my neck, down my arm and then go down out of sight. But he would always kiss down my breasts and continue to kiss all the way down until I would have to sort of move, wriggle away. And I had to turn facing away from him.
We're in a very different world when people are encouraged and told how brave they are and courageous and that they are doing this to help others. And this will save others.
They are encouraged to go on some sort of crusade.
Importantly, faithful adherence to the age-old principles that are fundamental to our criminal justice system has the consequence that not only will convictions be taken seriously, but an acquittal has real meaning and will be taken equally seriously by the community. The Sofronoff Report, paragraph 712. All the cast told sexualised jokes. C1 was front and centre.
Her sense of humour was very close to the mark, quite sexualised. It was shocking. She did it waiting behind the bed in Janet's scene. It was one of the main tellers of dirty jokes. In general, she was more vulgar and tore down stereotypes of typical feminine behaviour. She took it to a point that shocked me. Disclaimer.
Please note that names have been changed for legal and privacy reasons and that emails, texts and various court quotes and rulings are being read by actors. The names of Craig's accusers have been changed for editorial and legal reasons. The main complainants will be known as C1, C2 and C3.
Hello, my name is Vanessa Scammell and in this episode I will concentrate on the criminal charges that were laid against Craig McLachlan by the Victorian Police in relation to the cast member who will be known as C1, Craig's former castmate and friend from the 2014 Rocky Horror Show. From the moment allegations were made by this particular person, our lives changed forever.
For the past eight years, I have continued to witness this person be interviewed about Craig and I have watched in horror as her stories have been perpetuated over and over again in the media, online and throughout the industry. I have witnessed her post damaging comments, abusive tweets, even messages of outrage that Channel 7 had contracted Craig in the award-winning series SAS Australia.
For how dare a man who was found not guilty be allowed to go back to work? I have witnessed statement after statement about how she wants to be able to move forward, that she wants to forgive, that to forgive is an Australian thing, but nothing about her actions point to any such attempt.
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Chapter 2: Who is complainant C1 and what is her relationship to Craig?
On August 20, 2017, just three months before allegations were made to the press, C1 reached out to Craig.
I'm thinking of you if you need anything. I'm here in Melbourne for a couple of weeks. Stay well, look after each other. Until G and B reunite.
Further messages ensued and on September 21, 2017, she wrote this. Oh my God, we got the dance move in. It was so funny. This was a reference to a dance move the two of them had performed whilst doing Grease. they had snuck it into a scene of The Wrong Girl.
Two months later, on October 18, 2017, The Wrong Girl finished airing and two days after that, the full cast of the 2017-18 Rocky Horror Show was announced in the press. C1 had not been invited back, nor had she been invited back for the 2015 production.
And, as previously mentioned, none of the women who went on to make allegations against Craig, who had applied, auditioned or expressed interest in returning to the show for this production, were successful in being cast. Later that day, on October the 20th,
The very same day of the Rocky Horror Show cast announcement, three weeks after Weinstein and the frenzy of Me Too had exploded, C1 made her first move. She posted on Twitter, along with an accompanying hashtag, Me Too.
This hashtag, although years after my experience, has triggered in me a pain and sadness that I had pushed down so low. It's hard and scary to speak out. You second-guess yourself. Was that moment as bad as it felt? Am I overreacting? Am I wrong to feel violated? Was it just a joke?
My experience was unreported and when I was later asked to report it, the fear of opening the can of worms stopped me and the fear of dragging back all the pain. I have read some comments from women who foolishly tried to blame the woman in the situation and it is just so hurtful. The people protecting me at the time were women and they didn't have my back.
I vow here today to always support my fellow woman, to always believe her, to always have her back. Note well that in court it was revealed that C1 didn't complain of sexual assault or harassment to any of the women in managerial positions or any women in producing roles of the Rocky Horror Show.
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Chapter 3: What evidence and testimonies are presented regarding the Rocky Horror bed scene?
She only spoke well of him to me. During the show, she and Craig played around, engaged in tomfoolery and had a good time in warm-ups, not unprofessionally.
And what of the backstage culture? What part did C1 play in the backstage culture of the Rocky Horror Show of 2014?
The scene grew over the run, with changes to the original staging, which were funny. I laughed, corpsed easily. C1 used to give other cast wedgies when they were getting out of bed. She did it to me. It was funny, humorous-like. There were ongoing jokes and banter between them throughout the 2014 run.
They appeared to get on very well, played pranks on each other throughout the entirety of the season, tried to scare each other, hiding behind things and jumping out, trying to make each other laugh, outdo each other. They shared a similar sense of humour. I saw them goose each other, pinching bums. That was part of the scaring, definitely saw C1 do it to Craig.
Let's go to Craig's evidence.
Craig McLaughlin's Court Evidence Beginning with Grease 2005, see one consensually engaged in ostensible indecency with Craig McLaughlin. This evidence was unchallenged. She conducted herself in Rocky Horror Show 2014 in a vulgar, extroverted manner. This evidence was unchallenged in Cross. C1 was selective in her portrayal of Craig McLachlan's conduct, which was restrained.
In Rocky Horror Show 2014, she engaged in foul-mouthed bullying of a**holes. This evidence was unchallenged. She maintained an affectionate relationship with Craig. This evidence was unchallenged in Cross. She was depressed in Melbourne and sought Craig's confidence. This evidence was unchallenged. She maintained her friendship through 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. This evidence was unchallenged.
In 2016 and 2017, she worked closely with Craig McLachlan on the Wrong Girl TV series. In mid-2017, she volunteered that working with Craig was the happiest time in her life. This evidence was unchallenged. C1 did not ever indicate to Craig in any manner that he had offended her. This evidence was unchallenged. Her denials of quasi-sexual conduct with him are false to his knowledge.
This evidence was unchallenged. Craig was asked if C1 participated in backstage culture. I saw her routinely give wedgies. Goose people. try to dack people, you know, that's trying to whip down people's pants.
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Chapter 4: How did the friendship between C1 and Craig evolve over the years?
She was then asked if it was in fact her who operated the fake leg. Again, she said she couldn't recall. Craig's barrister then told her that it was her who operated the fake leg, as evidenced in archival footage. Again, she said she didn't recall. Let's go to Craig's chief evidence in relation to this second moment of the bed scene.
I delivered the line, Brad's probably asleep by now. Do you want him to see you like this? At that point, I moved to the opposite end of the bed, away from her. She remains in her position at that end, opposite me, and she replies, like this. Like how? I reply like this and I drop out of sight in that spot, in that position. Simultaneously, a crew member is reaching in between us
With the prosthetic leg. From where? From just behind the set. And then? Her hands are out of sight, not on the covers. She takes the leg with both hands and the audience see it arc through the air, above the covers, over her left shoulder, and then she swings it back down. Where are you at this time? At this point, I'm still up that far end.
I'm holding one part of the metal frame of the bed set for balance in my heels. And I'm making that sound effect again with my finger. Once I see the crew member take the prosthetic leg from her and safely remove it from the set, I spring back into view. Still, still in that far opposite end of the bed. And C1, Janet, is still in her position at that opposite end of the bed.
How long were you out of sight whilst crouching down? Five to seven seconds. Was that the range of how long the scene took to play every night? Yes. Was it ever shorter? Yes. Would it have been possible for you to have assaulted Miss ***? As she described, no.
Further, C1 was asked if the archival footage was representative of how the bed scene played out every night of the production. Her response was that this was typical, that it didn't change from this, that this was how the scene looked each and every night, at least from the audience point of view.
In this one moment, when C1 admits that the scene took place in this fashion each and every night, she determined without question that on each and every night her back was turned to Craig in the first moment before he disappeared from view of the audience, and that in the second moment Craig disappears from view, she was holding and operating a prosthetic leg as a gag whilst Craig was at the opposite side of the set.
In determining that this was how the scene played out each and every night, she has virtually admitted that her hands are never resting on the bed covers, nor is Craig ever crouched down in front of her. So did the magistrate take this into account? Did she accept this evidence? Keep listening to find out more.
Summary of Craig's evidence C-1's allegations, when examined in the light of Craig McLaughlin's movements, would have been physically and temporally impossible. The parts of the scene nominated by C-1 at the point at which she was touched on the vagina had a maximum window of several seconds in which Craig McLaughlin was out of sight. This evidence was unchallenged in cross-examination.
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