I’M FREEEE!

Yes! Yesterday was my birthday, and at the beginning of my 68th year I was presented with the greatest birthday present of my life.

For the last 18 months I have been under police bail, charged with a series of the most terrible offences against a single female complainant. I was accused of forcing her to masturbate me, digitally penetrating her, raping her, forcing her to commit acts of gross indecency against other children and lastly, but most significantly, performing an illegal abortion on her. As a doctor, this last offence is seen as the most heinous, as it would represent the most gross dereliction of duty in my privileged position as a doctor. This offence alone carries a potential tariff of life imprisonment.

Only problem? All these allegations were malicious and false, as they were against my 4 co-accused.
And yesterday, with less than 3 weeks to go before our trial was due to begin, the CPS finally accepted this and dropped all charges against us.

I’d love to tell you I feel fine today, that all the stress-related conditions I have developed have melted away. I’d love to, but I can’t. I continue to find myself in a state of shock, all the stiffness in my muscles still extant, and feeling an overwhelming sense of impotent rage at the serial liar who has tried so hard to ruin my life and that of 4 others. I have already been named and shamed in the media, with only a limited chance of hearing my name cleared by the same media who trashed my reputation. My accuser, of course, is guaranteed lifelong anonymity.

Why did she do it? Money. She has already been granted 22,000 pounds by CICA (the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority), and this years before any of the accusers were even interviewed, let alone charged. And since then she has added several additional charges, which could in theory attract more compensation of perhaps even greater value.

Why did the police and the CPS go so far in supporting this pathological liar and her insupportable claims? Because Alison Saunders, head of the CPS, told them to. “Bring us your stories of historical sexual abuse”, she announced a couple of years ago, “And you will be believed.”

This is part of the ‘feminisation of the justice system’ as my solicitor has dubbed it, a new attitude where women (mainly) are being encouraged to come forward without any corroborating evidence to back their claims, in the secure knowledge that the authorities will accept their claims unquestioningly, and the CPS will take the cases to court and let a jury decide. Only then, in the CPS’s calculations, will they be seen as doing their jobs properly. But juries are intelligent hive minds and are reluctant to convict in the absence of evidence beyond ‘he said/she said’. Thousands of cases are brought to trial every year; very few result in convictions. But some do, and there are, at this moment, hundreds of men (mainly) languishing in jail because a jury was persuaded the allegations were real. I should know. It nearly happened to me.