Caribbean Times, July 1990 Lord Justice Watkins was given an unexpected reception as he entered courtroom six for the afternoon session in the High Court last week. Six women held up the banner stating “Sack Judge Watkins for covering up police rape”. Lord Watkins left the room until they were ejected.
Three appeal court judges freed a police constable who raped As reported in The Guardian July 1990, PC Anderson was freed on the grounds that the original trial judge had said nothing in his summing up about the officer’s previous good character.
Home office agrees to compensate women who have a child as a result of rape A tremendous victory reported in the Caribbean Times, March 1990. WAR have fought for 13 years for this measure…
Article: Police rapist gets seven years October 12, PC Peter Anderson was found guilty of raping a young Black woman in Surrey whilst on duty. Anderson, relying on racist, sexist stereotypes to mislead the jury claimed that the woman had handed him ‘sex on a plate.’
Article: US doctor punished for assault The Revoke License to Rape Campaign (RLR) in the United States has won a major victory: Dr Samual Lyness, charged with sexual assault by seven women patients, was found guilty on six counts and his license suspended for five years…
Statement: In fighting for justice for Jackie Berkeley we are fighting for justice for all. On 19 April, 1984, Ms Jacqueline Berkeley and three other young Black women were arrested after an alleged disturbance in Manchester. At Moss Side Police Station, Ms Berkeley was taken into a cell, script naked, racially abused and raped by …
Book launch: The Rapist Who Pays The Rent – women’s case for changing the Law on Rape. This is the handbook of the movement to make rape in marriage a crime. It also describes how rape outside marriage is dealt with by police and courts, who often support and even encourage the rapist, whether he’s …
Parliament considers Rape in Marriage, WAR public meeting “Most people agree that marriage should be an equal relationship. How can there be equality when one partner is legally entitled to rape the other? Instead the law says that in marriage, the man is the boss and the women is his property.”
Press release: John Tilley MP presents a 10 Minute Rule Bill on rape in marriage. The first parliamentary bill in response to the growing movement against rape in marriage in Britain.
Racism is Rapism In organising against rape, we have seen too often how the law works against women’s safety. The immigration laws are a prime example…
