Here’s an account of the trial from two Guardian journalists who say the prosecution case “fell apart”, and recount how at least three of the men who gave evidence did not regard themselves as having been victims of sexual offences. And here are two accounts of the evidence given in cross-examination of the complainant who said he’d been raped.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is far from perfect, and it makes mistakes. It can be perfectly reasonable to accuse it of wrongly prosecuting someone; I’ve done it myself, accusing them of an unlawful prosecution in fact. But the fact that he’s been cleared does not mean the CPS was wrong to charge Nigel Evans in this case.
