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Interestingly, shortly after I last wrote about Evans following his release, a West Yorkshire taxi driver – Tamseel Virk – and three of his friends were sentenced for a total of 68 years for rape after an attack on a vulnerable and very drunken woman in Bradford. The case made temporary news headlines, but oddly I heard no one lamenting the end of Virk’s career as a minicab driver. Or say they want to help him drive again when freedom allowed. No one made an elaborate website trying to prove the victim was “up for it”, or posted CCTV footage as if to say: “Look, here she is walking upright! How can anyone who can walk upright be raped?”
It felt like in the case of the rapist minicab driver, the public felt that rape was rape and prison was just.
The point I was making by putting this story up was the authors twisted view.
The minicab driver has no fans, so basically he has no fans to defend him - and secondly the passenger wasn't known to the minicab driver - he spotted she was vulnerable and took advantage, thirdly, Evans will not be at work alone with people, the minicab driver, when he gets out - if he's granted a license, would be.
The differences are huge - but the author wasn't interested.