A Week in the War on Women: Monday 10th June - Sunday 16th June

Monday 10th June - The Long Arm Of The Law

THE DAILY MAIL: Trans-identified male police officers are still being permitted to carry out strip-searches on female suspects.

In December 2021, the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) approved a policy which allowed trans-identified male officers to carry out strip searches and/or intimate searches on female detainees. Feminist campaign group, Women’s Rights Network, published a report on this ‘state sanctioned sexual assault’ and found that the policy had been implemented by 35 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales.

By prioritising self-declared ‘gender identity’ over the reality of sex, this policy was in contravention of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) which specifies that searches involving the removal of more than outer clothing must be conducted by, and only in the presence of, officers of the same sex as the suspect. Nevertheless, under this policy, if a female suspect objected to being searched by a trans-identified male, she risked further charges being made against her. The policy stated, “If the refusal is based on discriminatory views, consideration should be given for the incident [to] be recorded as a non-crime hate incident unless the circumstances amount to a recordable crime”.

In January 2024, Diana Johnson MP raised the WRN report at a Home Affairs Select Committee meeting. Later that same week, The Telegraph reported that the National Police Chiefs’ Council said that it intended to conduct a ‘thorough review’ of its policy on intimate searches and would temporarily withdraw its guidance.

This week, however, The Daily Mail reported that the NPCC may still be allowing trans-identified male officers to strip search female suspects. A consultation was held last week, attended by Maya Forstater of Sex Matters, Heather Binning of the Women's Rights Network, Kate Barker of the LGB Alliance and women’s rights campaigner and retired police officer, Cathy Larkman. They say that the NPCC staff they met took a ‘neutral stance’ over whether trans-identified males should search female detainees. Furthermore, NPCC staff allegedly quoted a claim that there are ‘72 recognised genders’ and also revealed that a ‘trans activist lawyer’ is working with them on the new revised guidelines.

This ‘trans activist lawyer’ is none other than barrister, Robin Moira White, who also advised the NPCC on the previous guidance (which was supposedly withdrawn). This guidance not only breached the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE), but it was deemed in immediate need of review and correction by the policing minister, Chris Philp. Yet White signed off on the guidelines as ‘robust, sensible, practical and defensible’. After such poor advice on the previous occasion, why have the NPCC engaged White for a second time?

White’s conduct on social media and in interviews hardly instils faith that he can interpret the law impartially where sex and gender are concerned. He claims, for example, to be ‘somantically female’, he uses female-only spaces and his attitude towards women’s sex based rights is of extreme concern.

For their defence of women’s rights, White has denigrated Equalities Minister, Kemi Badenoch, EHRC chair, Baroness Falkner, and those at the registered charity, Sex Matters, calling all of these women ‘evil’.

He doesn’t even appear to understand that women have legal sex-based rights.

He describes The Cass Review as ‘nuttiness’.

Why on earth is he being permitted to influence police policy where the safety, dignity and rights of females are concerned?

Also Today - Election MAN-ifestos

The Liberal Democrats were the first major party to launch their election manifesto this week. Unsurprisingly, it involves several policies driven by gender ideology which would erase women’s sex-based rights.

The Liberal Democrats general election manifesto has been subtitled ‘For a Fair Deal’ but, as Sex Matters points out, the party’s proposals are anything but fair for women.

Under the heading ‘Rights and Equality’, the manifesto promises to:

• Reform the gender recognition process, removing the need for medical reports.

• Recognise ‘non-binary identities in law’.

• Remove the spousal veto.

Removing the need for a medical diagnosis from the gender recognition process is essentially just self-ID legislation. It would have a hugely deleterious affect on women’s sex-based rights and spaces, as would the legal recognition of ‘non-binary identities’ which are impossible to demonstrate or define.

As for abolishing the so-called ‘spousal veto’ from the gender recognition process, it’s an impossibly cruel blow to the husbands and wives of those with trans-identities who seek a GRC.

In English and Welsh law, a change of status to a marriage contract requires agreement from both parties. Consequently, if one partner changes their legal sex, thus altering the contract, the other must consent to that change before a full Gender Recognition Certificate can be issued. If consent is not given, an interim certificate is granted and the marriage must be dissolved by divorce or annulment prior to a full GRC being granted.

This is erroneously known as the ‘spousal veto’ but it is not a veto, just an opportunity for a partner to withdraw from a relationship / contract to which they never agreed. It is particularly important for women whose husbands ‘transition’ as they are far more likely to be impacted financially. Furthermore, it is a vital safeguard for women whose faith or culture mean they are not able to easily exit their marriage without great cost.

This gender agenda-driven manifesto is not really a surprise. The Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, has made his disdain for women’s rights and safety abundantly clear. In July 2020, for example, he told LBC’s Iain Dale that he’s happy for fully intact males to have full access to all of women’s spaces, even female prisons.

But long before Davey’s tenure, the Liberal Democrats have been slavish exponents of gender ideology.

At the 2015 party conference, the Lib Dems voted to simplify the Gender Recognition Act 2004 “To allow individuals to change their legal gender at will”, to speed up access to ‘gender healthcare’, to establish a gender identity clinic in Wales and to “Support the right of transgender and gender-variant children to receive puberty-blocking medications”.

Co-incidentally, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of the puberty blocker, Triptolerin, is a ‘long-standing’ supporter of the Liberal Democrats and has donated over £1.4 million to the party.

Later in the week, the Labour Party published its manifesto. The party is clinging to its ‘trans the gay away’ policy of a fully ‘trans-inclusive’ ban on so-called ‘conversion therapy’. This could criminalise parents, teachers and clinicians who offer counselling and therapy to those struggling with gender issues instead of the instant affirmation which would make them a life-long medical patient.

Keir Starmer has promised to implement the Cass Review in full but this pledge is completely at odds with his manifesto. Have the Labour Party not read the Cass Review? Or is their policy really to instruct medical professionals to implement the Cass Review then prosecute them for doing so?

Dr Hilary Cass has been extremely clear on the dangers of banning so-called conversion therapy for those with gender issues. She has explicitly warned against preventing clinicians from taking ‘a cautious or exploratory approach’ and against instilling in medical professionals a fear of doing their job.

The Cass Review also made clear that the majority of children seeking access to gender services are actually gay and lesbian youngsters beginning to come to terms with their sexuality. The NHS figures show that 89% of girls and 81% of boys who were referred to the Tavistock Clinic were same-sex attracted. As Kate Barker of the LGB Alliance writes, “If Labour thinks we will be so easily distracted from the damage being done to lesbian, gay and bisexual young people, then it is sorely mistaken”.

The Labour Party also plans to ‘simplify and reform’ the gender recognition process. Though vague about the details, it will clearly make it easier for males who have not undergone and surgery or hormone treatment to acquire legal status as women.

The manifesto goes on to talk of the Equality Act 2010, claiming that the party will “Continue to support the implementation of its single-sex exceptions”. Again, it fails to explain how it will do this when males can be included in the category of ‘female’. As Maya Forstater points out, “This mealy-mouthed promise will not be worth the paper it is printed on if sex self-ID ends up being enacted through the back door”.

Tuesday 11th June - I Can’t Believe It’s Not Satire

REDUXX: In Spain a male soldier who claims to be a lesbian is suing the Ministry of Defence over access to female locker rooms.

We have written on numerous occasions about Spain’s ‘la ley trans’ (the trans law), passed in February 2023 which allows anyone aged sixteen and over to legally change their sex with a simple bit of paperwork. We have also reported on the men in Spain who are exploiting this ‘trans law’ and changing their legal ‘gender’ for reasons of expediency, for nefarious purposes and/or for financial gain.

One such man is 43-year-old Francisco Javier López, a father who has been in the military since 1999 and is currently a heavy machinery mechanic stationed in Seville. In the spring of 2023, shortly after the enactment of Spain’s ‘trans law’, he changed his legal ‘gender’. All he had to do was complete the paperwork, put in his request at the Civil Registry and then wait the cursory three-month period. Of course, he has chosen not to change his name or undergo any medical treatment or physical alterations or, indeed, make any difference to his life whatsoever.

Following the change of his legal sex marker, López requested use of the female facilities at his army barracks. The Army initially refused his request, stating that the women’s facilities were already over-occupied. López was then told that the expansion of the female locker rooms was underway and that, while the work was in progress, he could access the women’s senior command locker rooms on a fixed schedule in the interim. López would have been able to use those facilities at set times meaning that female soldiers would not have been forced to share the space with him.

López refused this offer, claiming that it is unfair and discriminates against him because he is transgender. He is now suing the Spanish Ministry of Defence for ‘violating his human rights’ and subjecting him to ‘transphobic discrimination’. He is demanding just under €50,000 in compensation.

Also Today - Leave Them Kids Alone

WUSF: A federal court has prevented the US state of Florida from enacting legislation which bars clinicians from medicalising gender-confused children.

In May 2023, the Florida legislature passed SB 254, a law which banned puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and so-called ‘gender-affirming’ surgery for minors.

This week, US District, Judge Robert L Hinkle, ruled that this legislation is ‘unconstitutional’, stating that Florida can regulate treatments but cannot deny ‘transgender individuals’ what he described as “Safe and effective medical treatment”.

So now Florida’s clinicians are again free to set vulnerable children on a path to being life-long medical patients with treatments which could affect their bone density, brain development, fertility and future sexual function.

Wednesday 12th June - Auntie’s Bloomers

THE TELEGRAPH: The BBC’s new Director of Sport supports the colonisation of women’s sport by trans-identified males and has dismissed the views of two legendary sportswomen on the subject.

Alex Kay-Jelski is the BBC’s new Director of Sport. Since his appointment was announced, an article he wrote for The Times in December 2019 has come to light.

This article centred around Kay-Jelski’s support for the inclusion of trans-identified males in female sport. In it he appeared to compare those trying to protect female sport to racists, anti-Semites and homophobes. He wrote, “Minorities have forever been grouped together and been served up to the majority as threatening: don’t let gay men teach your children or they’ll get AIDS, don’t let black men in the same shops as you or they’ll rape your women, don’t do a business deal with a Jew or he will steal your money”.

Alex Kay-Jelski

He also claimed that there is evidence of “Little to no difference in performance” between trans-identified males and female athletes, a theory which has been totally disproved by the latest research. He does, however, appear to understand female biology well enough to have exploited a woman’s reproductive capacity and used a surrogate in order to satisfy his ambitions of fatherhood in 2018.

Kay-Jelski began his article in The Times by denigrating the views of tennis legend, Martina Navratilova, and Olympian, Sharron Davies, over their defence of women’s sport. He dismissed them both, claiming that they are ‘not experts’. It has also emerged that he blocked Martina Navratilova, a regular BBC commentator, on X (formerly Twitter).

Martina Navratilova is generally considered the greatest tennis player of all time; she was ranked No 1 in the world for six and a half years and she won an unprecedented 59 Grand Slam titles, including a record nine Wimbledon singles championships. Sharron Davies MBE was just 13 years old when she competed at her first Olympic Games. Throughout her swimming career she won one Olympic silver medal, two gold and two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games and two bronze medals at the European Championships. She is also a sports broadcaster, commentator and published author. Both of these legends are far more ‘expert’ in the field of women’s sport than Kay-Jelski could ever hope to be.

Nevertheless, commenting on their opposition to trans-identified males competing in women’s categories, he proclaimed, “I disagree and worry a circus is being created out of something that a) is not a huge problem in sport and b) further marginalises totally unthreatening people and creates a narrative of fear around them.”

Fallon Fox fighting Tamikka Brents

Males in women’s sport may not be ‘a huge problem’ for Kay-Jelski, but it certainly is for all the women and girls who have lost out on opportunities, medals, places, records, funding and scholarships. Not to mention those who’ve suffered serious injuries having being forced to compete with and against trans-identified males.

In March 2013, trans-identified male MMA fighter, Fallon Fox, took just 39 seconds to defeat Ericka Newsome, whacking her in the face with this kneecap and rendering her unconscious. She never competed again. A year later, in 2014, Fox crushed Tamikka Brents’ skull in a fight which lasted less than three minutes. He broke her eye socket and ended her career. Was Kay-Jelski unaware of this when writing his article in 2019? Or does he just consider it ‘not a huge problem’?

At the end of his article, Kay-Jelski compared having a separate category for trans-identified male athletes with having separate categories ‘for Jamaican sprinters and Ethiopian marathon runners’. He added, “Sounds mad doesn’t it? Nasty, even. Indeed.”

Sharron Davies described this as a ‘racist comment’ and condemned Kay-Jelski’s comparison of males with Ethiopian and Jamaican women. She added that she has written to BBC Director General, Tim Davie, asking him for an explanation of Kay-Jelski’s ‘obvious misogyny’.

The BBC said that it would not comment on work which Alex Kay-Jelski had previously undertaken for another organisation.

Both Sharron Davies and Martina Navratilova will be commentating on major sporting events for the BBC this summer. To express your support for them and/or to enquire about Alex Kay-Jeleski’s ability to represent women’s sport in a fair and objective way, you can contact the BBC here.

Thursday 13th June - This Never Happens #1

REDUXX: A trans-identified male violent sex offender is being housed in a female prison in Germany following his conviction for armed robbery.

A 27-year-old trans-identified male from Germany, Ömer (also known as Lara K), has a long criminal history. In 2014 he was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for an ‘undisclosed sexual offence’. He was subsequently placed under the supervision of a centre which deals with sex offenders at risk of re-offending. While the details of his crime are limited, it is known the case included a rape committed in November 2013 and what Tagesspiegel described as ‘massive violence’.

In 2017, Ömer was apprehended impersonating a police officer but he somehow managed to escape a prison sentence. In August of 2019, Ömer was again caught impersonating a police officer. He had participated in multiple police operations over several months, even issuing warnings to civilians. It was later revealed that child sexual abuse material had been discovered on his phone. It was around this time he began ‘identifying as a woman’ and requested the use of female pronouns in court.

Ömer was released on his own recognisance and, while awaiting a court date, he began stealing from people at bank ATMs, using a knife with which to threaten them. In 2021, he was convicted for armed robbery and sentenced to seven years in prison. Even though currently incarcerated, he will stand trial next week on the remainder of his 2021 charges which include the possession of child sexual abuse images.

Reduxx has been made aware that, despite having a violent sex offence on his record, Ömer has been placed in a women’s prison.

Friday 14th June - A Room Of One’s Own

THE TIMES: A supposedly female-only US sorority is being forced to admit a trans-identified male who is accused of voyeurism and sexual harassment after the failure of a second legal challenge.

We have written previously about the saga of the Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) sorority. Universities in the USA and Canada operate sorority and fraternity chapters for their students, the purpose of which is to develop community and friendship. While individual fraternities and sororities vary, they all share the common elements of single sex membership and a shared residential property.

In September 2022, Wyoming sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) allowed a trans-identified male, Artemis (formerly Dallin) Langford, to become a member. His inclusion caused considerable concern among many of KKP’s members, one of whom spoke anonymously to the press. She said that chapter leaders had dismissed the concerns of those who felt uncomfortable. The young women were pressured into accepting Langford’s membership as it was implied they’d be viewed as homophobic bigots if they refused. Furthermore, a leadership promise to operate an anonymous poll was reneged upon and voters were asked to identify themselves.

Artemis Langford - IMAGE CREDIT: Reduxx

In March 2023, six women, current and former sorority members, took legal action against KKG for allowing Langford to join. Their claim stated that sororities promise members a single-sex sisterhood intended to be a haven during their college years. “The Fraternity Council has betrayed the central purpose and mission of Kappa Kappa Gamma by conflating the experience of being a woman with the experience of men engaging in behavior generally associated with women.”

Although he didn’t live at the sorority house, which accommodates around 50 young women, Langford was a regular visitor there. The complaint alleged that Langdon - who is well over six feet tall, weighs 260 lbs and claims to be a lesbian - behaved like a voyeur, watching the sorority girls when they were undressing. On at least one occasion, it is alleged that Langford was in an obvious state of sexual arousal with an erection clearly visible through his leggings and that at other times he would conceal his arousal with a pillow in his lap. The complaint also referenced a slumber party at which Langford allegedly took photographs of the young women without their permission and asked them intimate questions about their bodies and sex lives.

Artemis Langford - IMAGE CREDIT: The Daily Mail

In August 2023, despite hearing testimony that Langford had watched young women undress while he was in a state of sexual arousal, Judge Alan Johnson dismissed the case. He stated, “The Court will not define ‘woman’ today. The delegate of a private, voluntary organization interpreted ‘woman’, otherwise undefined in the non-profit’s bylaws, expansively; this Judge may not invade Kappa Kappa Gamma’s freedom of expressive association and inject the circumscribed definition Plaintiffs urge.”

Langdon with KKG sorority sisters

In December 2023, the young women filed an appeal at the federal court to have the dismissal reversed. They argued that Langford’s presence in the sorority house “Caused emotional distress in a personalised and unique way” and asked that the court clearly define the word ‘woman’. They also reiterated their assertion that Langford displayed ‘strange and sexual behaviour’ towards them and caused them a level of discomfort and anxiety amounting to personal injury.

This week the federal court dismissed their appeal, claiming that Sylvia May Mailman - the lawyer representing them - had not exhausted options to re-file at a district level.

In a statement, Mailman disagreed that the federal court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the case. She said, “Women deserve the camaraderie and safety of sororities, but unfortunately, it also appears they first need courts brave enough to say so”.

Also Today - This Never Happens #2

A trans identified male sex offender who posed as a 14-year-old girl online and shared an indecent image of a child has escaped a prison sentence.

60-year-old trans-identified male, ‘Emma’ Davies, is from Frizington in Cumbria and began ‘transitioning’ in February of this year. In August 2023 - then known as Nigel - Davies was interviewed by police over information they had received that he had been accessing images of children online. Having searched Davies’ home, officers found an indecent category C image of a 13-year-old girl on two of his electronic devices. These devices also contained other images of the same child.

Davies told police that he had been diagnosed as a ‘possible transsexual’ and claimed that he had pretended to be a 14-year-old girl online in order to contact young teenage girls because it allowed him ‘to be someone who is not me’.

Police interviewed Davies again in December 2023 and he was shown the indecent image found on his devices. He claimed that he and the 13-year-old girl in the image had ‘got talking’ and that she had sent him a topless photograph of herself unsolicited. Davies also maintained that the image sent to him wasn’t for his sexual gratification but was for the ‘persona of who he wanted to be’. Davies said he had then shared the indecent image of the girl online, pretending that it was him.

Davies appeared in Workington Magistrates Court in May and admitted to charges of making indecent images of children and failing to surrender to court bail at an earlier hearing. He apologised for his failure to attend court, saying, “I was having to face who I used to be. I was terrified. I didn’t know how you were going to address me in court. That played with my anxiety.” Referring to his change of name, Davies said, “It’s a legal status now and everything”.

The chair of the magistrates panel, Keith Southward, assured Davies that the court would address him however he wishes. He told him, “You will be addressed as you wish to be addressed, so don’t worry about it.” (After all, what could be suspicious about a convicted sex offender wanting to conceal his previous name and identity….)

Passing sentence, magistrates imposed a five-year sexual harm prevention order and a 12-month community order with 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days. Davies was also fined £120 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £114 victim surcharge.

When this story was originally reported by local media, Emma (formerly Nigel) Davies was referred to as a ‘woman’.

Saturday 15th June - We Stand With Rosie

BBC NEWS: Labour MP, Rosie Duffield, has been forced to cancel election hustings over fears for her safety.

For years, Rosie Duffield, the steel-spined and courageous Labour MP for Canterbury, has spoken out in defence of women’s sex-based rights and spaces. And for years she has faced the most horrendous abuse, harassment and threats, even from within her own party, for doing so. Only last week, 31-year-old Glenn Mullen was convicted for sending death threats to Rosie Duffield and JK Rowling. In January 2023, he uploaded audio clips on social media threatening to kill JK Rowling ‘with a big hammer’ and said he was “Going to see Rosie Duffield at the bar with a big gun”. Small wonder that Rosie has been forced to employ her own private security guards.

Not once has Labour leader, Keir Starmer, spoken up in Rosie Duffield’s defence or to condemn the abuse and threats she receives. Indeed, he actively avoids speaking with her and he even blatantly snubbed her by not inviting her to an election event being held in her own county.

This week, Rosie Duffield announced that, due to fears for her personal safety and that of her campaign staff, she has been forced to cancel her election hustings.

Despite the overwhelming number of violent threats made against Rosie Duffield, despite last week’s conviction of a man making such threats, despite the tragic murders of two serving MPs within recent years, this is how Labour peer, Michael Cashman, responded to Rosie Duffield withdrawing from election hustings over fears for her safety.

And he did so on the 8th anniversary of the murder of Labour MP, Jo Cox.

Welcome to witch burning, 2024 style.

Also Today - Within These Walls

THE DAILY MAIL: A female serial killer has been sexually assaulted in her California prison cell by a trans-identified male.

We have written previously about the Californian law - SB 132 - which requires the state to house trans-identified inmates in prisons based not on their sex but on their gender identity. Fully intact trans-identified males - even those convicted of violent or sexually violent crimes - can be housed in female prisons. Unsurprisingly, large numbers of male prisoners have feigned a trans identity to effect a transfer to the female estate and, unsurprisingly, a number of incarcerated women have reported sexual and/or physical assaults at the hands of trans-identified male prisoners.

This week, The Daily Mail reported that yet another female prisoner has been sexually assaulted by a trans-identified male inmate.

During the 1990s, Dana Sue Gray killed three elderly women in order to steal their credit cards and spend their money. Now 66 years old, she is serving life without parole at the Central California Facility for Women (CCFW).

Dana Sue Gray when young

In telephone interviews with the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), Gray described a ‘terrifying and disgusting’ attack by her trans-identified male cellmate. She says that the man, who is 6ft 2in tall, was initially friendly towards her but later became abusive and aggressive. Then, on two separate occasions, he sexually assaulted her, shoving his penis in her face in a ‘show of male dominance’. Gray did not feel able to formally report this assault but she told one of the guards and her cellmate was later moved to another part of the prison.

To quote The Daily Mail, “Many people who recall Gray's gruesome killing spree will struggle to sympathize with her. Yet the alleged attack sheds light on life at California women's prisons, which have seen ever more sexual assaults since 2021” (when law SB 132 was passed). It’s hard to not to conjecture that someone with the hubris to attack a notorious serial killer is surely capable of doing anything to any woman.

Sunday 16th June - This Never Happens #3

THE TELEGRAPH: An SNP trans activist who expressed his desire to beat up ‘TERFs and transphobes’ has been convicted of sexual and physical assault.

We have written previously about 24-year-old Cameron ‘he/they’ Downing who identifies as ‘non-binary’. Two years ago he was appointed the SNP Equalities Officer at the party’s London branch.

In October 2022, The Daily Record and The National Scot reported on him threatening violence against women, using misogynistic language and insulting feminists in his posts on social media.

The now-deleted comments dated from September and October 2020. In one of the tweets, Downing stated, “I’m in the mood to beat the fuck out of some terfs and transphobes today”. In another, he declared, “I fucking hate terfs and transphobes with such a passion they make me want to SCREAM !!!!!”

Cameron Downing - IMAGE CREDIT: Craig Waddell (photographer) National Galleries Scotland

Forced into making a half-hearted apology, Downing told The Daily Record, “I apologise for these tweets and for any offence caused to the LGBTQ+ community”. No apology for the women he threatened to ‘beat the fuck out of’, though.

The same weekend as the stories about Downing’s disgusting comments appeared in the press, he was photographed with ‘real feminist’, Nicola Sturgeon, at the SNP annual conference in Aberdeen.

IMAGE CREDIT: @themikehannon

Last week, at Edinburgh’s High Court, Downing was convicted of sexually and physically assaulting six young adults. The court heard that Downing preyed on his victims at various locations across Scotland, beginning when he was just 16-years-old and continuing until February 2023. Downing ‘repeatedly blackmailed’ one of his victims, threatening him that he would make false rape allegations against him if the young man did not do what he wanted.

A female victim told the court that Downing assaulted her when she was a teenager and drunk at a party. She remembered Downing taking her to the bathroom when she was feeling sick and telling her that she needed a shower. “It was mostly my breasts that he would touch”, she said. “Maybe some groping elsewhere.” Later, after she had woken up undressed and in bed, Downing entered the room and snarled in her face that he was being forced to leave the party and that everything was her fault. The following day she discovered that she was ‘covered in bruises’ as if she had ‘been battered’.

Last week, after two days of deliberation, the jury found Downing guilty of sexual and physical assault. He will be sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on 16th July.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

See you next week.