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DevAdvocate

DevAdvocate

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Jan 21, 2010
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Up my own arse
Television presenter Charlie Webster has resigned as a patron of Sheffield United after the club allowed convicted rapist Ched Evans to train. The club said it had granted former player Evans permission to train with the side following a request from the Professional Footballers' Association. Evans, 25, was freed last month after serving two-and-a-half years for rape.
Ms Webster told BBC's Newsnight that "at no point" had the club acknowledged the "extremity of his crime".
The Wales international footballer was jailed in April 2012 for raping a woman in a hotel room in Rhyl.

'Next generation' Her resignation comes after Sheffield United released a statement on Tuesday saying Evans would be allowed to train with the club. It said the club had not yet decided whether to re-sign him. Ms Webster told Newsnight that "nobody" was making a decision about Evans, adding: "I suppose I feel I need to make a decision as patron of Sheffield United. "My decision is made on the fact that I don't believe a convicted rapist, as in Ched Evans, should go back to a club that I am patron of and should go back into the community to represent the community.

He's not just going into a job, he's bandied as a role model, we cheer him on as a role model and he's influencing the next generation of young men who are currently still making their decisions on how to treat women and what sexual mutual consent is." Ms Webster - who in an interview earlier this year revealed she had been sexually assaulted as a teenager - said she had had a "positive" conversation with the chairman of the Sheffield United before resigning. It comes after campaign groups criticised the decision to allow Evans to resume training with his former club. Almost 157,000 people have signed a petition urging Sheffield United not to take the player back after the club chose not to renew his contract following his conviction. However, Sheffield United said there could be no place for "mob justice" in making a decision over his future. The club said it had considered the views of staff, the Football League and the PFA, as well as the club's supporters and the general public. An appeal against Evans's conviction was rejected by three judges at the Court of Appeal in 2012. His case is due to be looked at by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. The Welsh striker maintains his innocence, saying the sex was consensual.
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She has more balls than her board members
 
He was innocent.

Women gets pished, has sex with a man and he's a rapist.

Man gets drunk and has sex with a woman and he's a rapist.

The laws are stuck in the 20th century and assume men are bad, women are always victims. Just look at the recent cases with school teachers having sex with 14 and 15 year olds. When it's a man they get called *****s. No such accusations are made when it's a female teacher.
 
Done the crime, did the time.

We punish people who've done wrong by sending them to prison for a finite period of time according to their crime. Once they come out, are they barred from work for the rest of their lives?

I don't get the furore personally, he's done his stint, let him get on with it.
 
The crime report or whatever even says at one point after Evans had arrived and was pumping her, the night porter went to check and all he could hear from the room was her moaning her heid aff <laugh>
 
Sheikh Jiffy Al Maktoum said:
The crime report or whatever even says at one point after Evans had arrived and was pumping her, the night porter went to check and all he could hear from the room was her moaning her heid aff <laugh>
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It's ridiculous it really is.

They actually named one woman up here who had falsely cried rape, she confessed to the police. Normally even if women are guilty of this they still don't get named.

The poor boy went through hell at the cop shop.

No-one should be named in a rape case until it has been to court and verdict is arrived at.
 
He was found guilty and sentenced to a spell in prison. He wasn't sentenced to a spell in prison and being banned from ever working again.

The people trying to stop him being employed as professional footballer are essentially saying the judicial system didn't punish him enough and are taking the law into their own hands.
 
Even if he was guilty he's served his time. Dev loves a bit of extrajudicial justice.
 
Tits McGee said:
He was found guilty and sentenced to a spell in prison. He wasn't sentenced to a spell in prison and being banned from ever working again.

The people trying to stop him being employed as professional footballer are essentially saying the judicial system didn't punish him enough and are taking the law into their own hands.
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So Ian huntly would be ok to get another janny job then?
 
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