As season one, Rape on Trial, continues its examination of the investigation and prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences in the UK criminal justice system, we are back in Crown Court for our fourth rape trial. Faruq, a taxi driver, is charged with raping Emily, a lone, intoxicated student he picked up in the street after she had been thrown out of a nightclub and separated from her friends: another rape prosecution the mainstream tells us is unlikely to succeed because of rape myths.
In this, the first of three episodes detailing criminal proceedings in Faruq's trial, the prosecution's case gets underway with opening speeches and the complainant's evidence in chief--her ABE video--and cross-examination.