Jaw-dropping duncery
August 24, 2007 at 2:16 pm (Body Image, Women)
Tags: Lawyers
Thanks to Without Measure (WOM) Beta for this item.
All the way from the UK, reported in Metro on May 17, 2007:
A barrister provoked outrage yesterday by claiming that the victim of an alleged gang rape was so fat she would have been ‘glad of the attention’.
Sheilagh Davies, defending one of three boys accused of raping two girls, said the 16-year-old girl had ’slimmed down a lot’ since the alleged attack.
She told Inner London Crown Court: ‘She was 12st 6lb – not quite the swan she may turn into. She may well have been glad of the attention.’
I can’t imagine that Ms. Davies’ comments helped her client’s case. Beyond that, I’m speechless on this one.
(12st 6lb=174 pounds. Irrelevant, but as a former translator I have an impulse to convert measurement.)
frozentootsies said,
September 2, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Oh. My. God. A WOMAN barrister said that. I’m speechless. And I’m almost NEVER speechless.
Was that a high-heeled shoe on that foot in her mouth? « Frozen Tootsies said,
September 2, 2007 at 1:27 pm
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