Commentary
When it comes to teasing out the murky truth in sexual consent cases, the mobile phone is a key source of evidence offering a lifeline that often serves to exonerate accused men.
That’s why phone evidence has become such a hot-button issue, with police and prosecutors now routinely withholding or deleting phone evidence that could be used to disprove the complainant’s claims.
The public push for more rape convictions means impediments like exculpatory evidence are conveniently overlooked or swept aside.
In Australia, this issue usually emerges only in the stories of individual men seeking justice in our courts, but in the UK, the controversy has been playing out in a very public arena….