Rape verdict causes outrage
- Title
- Rape verdict causes outrage
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 6 Jan 1982
- Year of production
- 1982
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- Duration
- 00:02:14
- Description
- Report on the controversial sentencing of John William Allen, whom Judge Bertrand Richards fined two thousand pounds for raping a young female hitchhiker and accused the girl of contributory negligence. Speakers include: Linda Brown, Women Against Violence Against Women; Jim Jardine, Police Federation. Female reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Jim Jardine; Linda Brown
- Keywords
- Legal procedure; Crime; Law; Police; Violence; Women; Penal sanctions; Trials; Judges; Rape; Sentencing; Verdicts; Fines (penalties); John Allen; Women Against Violence Against Women; Bertrand Richards
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