St Patricks Night Sex was not Rape

An Irish young man who took a friend out into Manchester in order to celebrate St Patrick’s Night with her in the traditional style and then invited her back to his flat where they had sex on numerous occasions did not rape her, a jury at Manchester Crown Square decided.

Mr Jeremy Lasker was instructed by Olliers solicitors to defend in the week-long trial which was conducted before HH Judge Mansell and a jury.

Although the complainant had described herself in earlier text messages to the Defendant that she was ‘Game as a Badger’ the case turned on the question of consent and whether the Defendant ought to have known that she had changed her mind.