[joeysteele]

[QUOTE=Nedusa;7448599]Well if you look at the transcripts from the trial not everyone is convinced he is guilty of rape.

Courts, Judges and Juries are not infallibe and mistakes very occasionally do happen.

So maybe Mr Evans and his family and legal team do think his conviction is unsafe and that certain evidence was not made available to the court or the jury.

Maybe that is why he cannot admit guilt.. Maybe there is more to this story than just the question of whether a convicted rapist should play football again.



I have to agree here.

He is convinced and states he didn't commit the crime, there is enough 'uncertainty' as to that to warrant it being looked into again.

So really, since he is still protesting the conviction, why on earth would he then admit to and say sorry for commitiing the crime.
That would not make sense and if the case once it is looked at again comes back saying he was wrongly convicted in the first place, then there is going to be a lot of egg on faces.

He could say he was sorry for any distress for this action but that he misread the signals or whatever.

I do agree with Kizzy that the lady has the right to choose who she does anything with but it does seem very odd and suspicious to me that she would willingly go into a room with one or more men in it and carry out any acts at all with any of them in front of the other/s.

I am against rape totally but I have seen friends wrongly accused of same by jealous ex girlfriends and others trying to destroy peoples lives and/or careers.

What disturbs me here however is, this witchhunt going on hysterically against him on social media and others out to block him ever likely working in football again.
Football is riddled with players doing wrong,if he is playing football he is playing it with other men,hardly likely to re-offend there.
I find it worrying that now he has been deemed to be released that such things are allowed to take place.

He is at present convicted of rape, he has been to prison, he is now out and has to report at times due to the sexual nature of the conviction.
That doesn't mean he will do it again,after all this hoo ha he would be crazy to even put himself in a situation where he could be even be suspected of it.
It is a very worrying thing that if someone has been punished by the law and then deemed with conditions to be safe to be released,that he can be hounded like this and also any clubs that may even want to try to give him another chance get threatened and hounded too.
That is what I find distasteful.

Rape is a horrific crime,anyone guilty of it, male or female should be punished by the law.
This further vindictive hounding of an individual however after satisfying the punishment meted out in law, isn't the way forward.
I say again, if it is found he was wrongly convicted in the first place then all these sorry goings on will be blight on justice for a fair while to come.

So I would give him the chance to play again or be involved with football if I owned a club, I would have him watched like a hawk to protect the club and hope the case being looked at again comes with that he was wrongly convicted in the first place.
To be honest, I myself actually have a feeling that is probably going to be the outcome of that looking into this conviction again too.