Sex Video Clears Man Of Rape Charges
There are times that sex video is good and useful.
A businessman has been cleared of raping a university student after jurors were shown footage of the sex session taken on a mobile phone.
Gary Taylor, 41, was accused of attacking the 27-year-old woman after turning up at her flat with cocaine and a bottle of red wine.
The woman, who can’t be identified for legal reasons, told jurors that Mr Taylor forced her to perform a sex act on him and then raped her in her living room.
But during cross-examination she was shown footage Mr Taylor had taken on his mobile phone during the encounter on September 26, 2008.
Mr Taylor’s barrister Karen Holt said the footage showed the woman ‘actively’ performing a sex act on him.
Judge Christopher Moss QC closed the public gallery before a graphic clip filmed by the woman was shown to the jury.
The judge warned: ‘You are going to see a clip which from what I have been told you may find extremely distasteful. To avoid making it a peep show, I have ordered the public gallery to be cleared.’
After the footage was screened, Miss Holt said to the alleged victim: ‘You and Mr Taylor were very familiar with each other and comfortable in each other’s presence.’
The woman said: ‘I don’t think I was happily talking to him.’
She also denied ‘actively’ performing a sex act on Mr Taylor.
