Caroline Flack

She made a mistake, She has paid a heavy price, Rest in Peace

 

And it is because of all those louts that beat their partners and then were never prosecuted that the guidelines were changed so CPS now proceed like they did in this case if there is enough other evidence

 

I can see all sides here and in any situation like this there are safeguarding concerns. But in my opinion where there's no evidence of previous abuse and the alleged victim doesn't want to press charges then a caution would have sufficed.

It feels like because she's famous and therefore is high profile they've wanted to make it a show trial. I don't think that would've happened of she wasn't famous.

If the situations were reversed sex wise I'm not sure I'd have any less sympathy for the guy

 

Millions live their lives via social media, faux greiving for a woman they never met or knew yet feel the need to pour out their emotions publically. The very same people who had different views only a day earlier. Amazing what topping yersen can do to your public perception, I guess the poor lass will never find that out.
The very same grief tourists now desperately trying to shift blame to the likes of Dan Wooton at the Sun. The very people who give the likes of Wooton the reason to be.
What next? Wooton tops himself from the social media backlash? Cos they'd love that wouldn't they?

 

Define “no evidence of previous abuse”?

what would we have said if the Cps dropped all charges as soon as the victim wasn’t supporting it and the next time she hit him harder with something and killed him? Who would have been to blame then?

he wanted the charges dropping but it doesn’t work like that. Sometimes people need protecting and they don’t even know it. They are too scared or don’t want the case going through court due to fear or reputation etc.

also, you have some domestic abuse cases where the victim does retract but then a month or two later down the line they are fully on board with the case when the pressure has died down a little.
There is no such thing as a “show trial”

 

I am not 100% sure on the sentencing guidelines but I’d imagine a caution is not an option in a case of domestic abuse. And rightly so.

there would be no press ban on the case so the press are within their rights to be outside court. Her management team could and should have done more to protect her from that? Why is that also the CPS’s job?
I do believe more needs to be done for defendants in this country aswell as victims but in this case no matter what CPS did they wouldn’t have been able to win.
Next people will be saying the police shouldn’t have arrested her because she didn’t mean it and might have killed her self

 

Some of those on Twitter who were moaning and saying everyone should be kind are tonight having a go at Courtney Love and Louis Capaldi after the Brits.

somethings don’t change

 

We love a good bitch. We should embrace it.

 

I have never heard of this woman & am feeling like I did a few weeks back when a basketball player (who I'd never heard of) died, mystified.

 

I'd never heard of Phillip Schofield until Gordon texted me.

 

There’s a contradiction in your post which demonstrates the imbalance in attitudes towards domestic violence based on gender.

‘Louts’ have ‘escaped justice’ because ‘abused wives wouldn’t testify’.

But in this case you’re happy to dismiss it as ‘probably a moment of alcohol induced madness’ and a ‘caution would have sufficed’. Because the alleged perpetrator is a woman...

Double standards.

For the record, I’m not trivialising the point around men who’ve escaped justice. I think all domestic violence is abhorrent and whether you’re male or female, if you commit such acts then you should be prosecuted equally, regardless of what’s between your legs. Equality should mean equality.

And I agree with the points raised around virtue signalling, faux grief attitudes on social media. The same people blaming ‘the media’ are generally the same people who lap up shite like Love Island and celebrity lifestyle magazines. They endorse, even create a platform for these so called celebrities to be famous for being famous, disconnecting themselves and those within such ‘celebrity circles’ from reality. It’s toxic.

I’ve said the same thing with footballers when there’s an outcry over misbehaviours. ‘they’re a role model for children’. If you’re allowing someone you’ve never met to be a role model for your child, the problem lie’s elsewhere.

I’ll get off my high horse now. Rant over!

 

Again not meaning to trivialise anything that has happened and I didn't know whether to post here, or in it gets right on my tits, or general football (sort of), but Lizzie Cundy gets right on my tits. She's been all over the radio in support of Philip Schofield, same for Caroline Flack, she's every celebs best friend. What does she actually do. Rant over

 

Actually having read that now does anyone know how to move it to gets right on my tits