Via Ray [J4MB]: I don’t normally buy my local paper, but I picked up a
copy today when I saw the headline, “Wolverhampton Pc sacked for making
‘bad joke’ about rape says his life has been ruined”. The story turns out to be as appallingly unjust as the headline suggests.
Rape culture doesn’t exist – it’s a figment of feminists’ fevered imaginations – but rape hysteria certainly does, and many men’s lives are ruined by it. The state does all it can to maintain the hysteria. The Coalition Agreement in May 2010 committed to bringing back anonymity for those suspected of having carried out sexual offences, but later reneged on the promise, under pressure from feminists.
E&S: Former Wolverhampton Pc Richard Mayes, a
father of three, told the Express & Star: “My life has been ruined
by a single word. I did not steal, hit anyone or commit any other crime.
“I said a word that one person in the room didn’t like – and it wasn’t even that word which got me the sack.”
The 45-year-old, who was a Taser training instructor for 10 years, was fired as an appeal tribunal upheld the decision.
Mayes who served in Wolverhampton before being based at the regional police training centre at RAF Cosford and lived in Telford, explained: “I used a word to describe the state of a body after being rigid when first hit by a Taser. A woman officer complained because she used to live in South Africa where it was apparently offensive. It was only when she made a statement detailing everything else that had happened during the training session that the rape issue was even mentioned.”
Rape culture doesn’t exist – it’s a figment of feminists’ fevered imaginations – but rape hysteria certainly does, and many men’s lives are ruined by it. The state does all it can to maintain the hysteria. The Coalition Agreement in May 2010 committed to bringing back anonymity for those suspected of having carried out sexual offences, but later reneged on the promise, under pressure from feminists.
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“I said a word that one person in the room didn’t like – and it wasn’t even that word which got me the sack.”
The 45-year-old, who was a Taser training instructor for 10 years, was fired as an appeal tribunal upheld the decision.
Mayes who served in Wolverhampton before being based at the regional police training centre at RAF Cosford and lived in Telford, explained: “I used a word to describe the state of a body after being rigid when first hit by a Taser. A woman officer complained because she used to live in South Africa where it was apparently offensive. It was only when she made a statement detailing everything else that had happened during the training session that the rape issue was even mentioned.”
Mr Adrian Keeling QC, representing Mr Mayes
at yesterday’s appeal, told the Birmingham hearing: “He has been made
an unfair scapegoat for where the force wants to be rather than actually
is. Colleagues in the closed and private environment of a training
session did not view this as gross misconduct.”
But Mr John-Paul Waite, representing West Midlands Police, argued the confidence rape victims had in the force would have been undermined if Pc Mayes had not been dismissed.
The comment was made during Taser training for Staffordshire officers in May 2014. Pc Mayes spent the next 18 months at the Tally Ho training centre in Edgbaston. He was sacked in October last year.
Mr Mayes, who split from his wife since the complaint and now lives in Wales, said last night: “This has ruined my life. It put pressure on a marriage that, perhaps, was already troubled. The police put conditions on me – such as having to travel from Telford to Edgbaston and back every day. I almost became homeless in the last seven months.” He now works as a self employed cleaner and maintained: “You are virtually unemployable as a sacked police officer. There is a stigma to it.”
But Mr John-Paul Waite, representing West Midlands Police, argued the confidence rape victims had in the force would have been undermined if Pc Mayes had not been dismissed.
The comment was made during Taser training for Staffordshire officers in May 2014. Pc Mayes spent the next 18 months at the Tally Ho training centre in Edgbaston. He was sacked in October last year.
Mr Mayes, who split from his wife since the complaint and now lives in Wales, said last night: “This has ruined my life. It put pressure on a marriage that, perhaps, was already troubled. The police put conditions on me – such as having to travel from Telford to Edgbaston and back every day. I almost became homeless in the last seven months.” He now works as a self employed cleaner and maintained: “You are virtually unemployable as a sacked police officer. There is a stigma to it.”
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