Lost Prophets singer charged with rape of 1 year old.

[Meade's Ball]

PS. He has been CHARGED, which means the Police believe he has committed the crime and they, with the CPS, believe they have sufficient evidence to gain a conviction. The jury decide the rest. That is the legal system we have here but, if like Meade's Ball, you'd like the MEDIA or layman internet forums like this one to deliver 'justice', who am I to argue with your beliefs.

you what?
I don't want fools from the internet or newspapers to imprison somebody. I want nothing but a jury to decide who is guilty or innocent. I have no idea whether this singing chap has anything to do with this potential crime and I wouldn't cast judgement for a second on him other than his whiny music.
Kindly don't paint me as a symbol of reactionary wigless judges the country over.

Some of the rest of your piece was interesting, but the misreading was mildly insulting. Tut.

 

[Kaiser_Soze]

Yeah... that's the other thing with conspiracy, it's very hard to prove because a lot of the time no crime has occurred. The evidence needs to be clear and simple.

I recently sat on a jury which was deadlocked 8-3 in favour of acquittal in a conspiracy case which was, to be fair, a f***ing farce. Unfortunately, the three who were finding "guilty" said they thought he was guilty because of "how he was sat" in the dock before they even knew what the charges were. Well that and the defendant was Asian and the three jurors which made racial comments during the consideration.

For example, a woman hires a hitman to kill her husband; the prosecution are likely to convict if they can prove and/or demonstrate a) she paid him, b) he was known by her to be a hitman when she paid him and c) there was motive for her to want her husband dead.

With this case, if it goes to trial, the prosecution will have to prove

a) he is a sexual predator, and establish a "pattern of behaviour" to convince jurors of this - this goes to motive
b) this wasn't "fantasy", i.e. he was specifically planning the crime with an intended victim in mind, and the police have evidence of this (text messages, taped phone calls, anecdotal evidence)
c) that the witnesses are credible. The defence will argue that he sleeps with a lot of women and uses them for one night stands (not illegal) and this naturally upsets the young slappers (not illegal) - so they make up all kinds of malicious lies and allegations about him which have lead to this trial.

Stuff like those comments on that forum would never be allowed into the court by the judge as they are extremely prejudicial, could've been written by anyone with any motive and prove absolutely nothing.

Incidentally, I've never heard of the band or the singer, I'm just offering a little bit of balance to the outrageous witch hunt comments being posted by the neanderthals. Cheers.

PS. He has been CHARGED, which means the Police believe he has committed the crime and they, with the CPS, believe they have sufficient evidence to gain a conviction. The jury decide the rest. That is the legal system we have here but, if like Meade's Ball, you'd like the MEDIA or layman internet forums like this one to deliver 'justice', who am I to argue with your beliefs.

Spot on with the bit about conspiring, however if it was done via the internet, there is likely to be logs of the conversations etc. The possession of images is much more clear cut though. You either have them or you don't.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Pleaded guilty to all but the rape charge, which the prosecution accept, so won't now face trial.

Blimey.

 

[Icy Gull]

Sick, just sick, sentencing on 18 December

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25108439

 

[Driver8]

He is one sick individual.

 

[Acker79]

http://newstalk.ie/Lostprophets-singer-admits-to-attempting-to-rape-a-baby

EDIT: Only just seen this news, and didn't see the other posts from today.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Harrowing story, as well as him the 2 mothers freely offering their kids to him. Disturbing is hardly a strong enough word for this case.

 

[spring hall convert]

Police had a chance to stop this in 2008.

http://www.itv.com/news/2013-11-27/...knew-of-ian-watkins-abuse-from-december-2008/

 

[The Modfather]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25145096

Geldofs daughter divulges Mothers names

 

[Driver8]

Sentenced to 35 years. That won't be a lot of fun I would imagine.

 

[EDS]

That won't be a lot of fun I would imagine.

He will have protection and be on the nonces wing. Hopefully they will get to him one day though

 

[Puppet Master]

Gross

 

[spring hall convert]

The sentencing notes are out there. It is the most vile thing I have ever set eyes on. It's extremely hard to imagine any human being acting in the way these 3 have.

The South Wales police may well be in for a kicking as well.

http://www.factmag.com/2013/12/18/ian-watkins-jailed-for-29-years/