As Rape on Trial continues, we're back in the public gallery of the Crown Court for Dean’s trial. He is charged with the rape and sexual assault of Anya, his partner at the time.
As in previous episodes, Dean’s trial involves another rape case the mainstream narrative tells us shouldn’t succeed: an allegation of intimate partner relationship rape with no forensic evidence, no CCTV, and no eyewitnesses — just one person’s word against another’s.
In this, the first of three episodes covering Dean's trial, we hear the prosecution’s opening of the case and the start of the complainant’s evidence.
Part of Criminal Justice in Action: Rape on Trial, this episode continues the season’s mission to cut through myths and misconceptions about rape in the criminal justice system, and to show how the criminal process really works in practice.
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