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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 446105" data-attributes="member: 33">That simply is not true. The strength of the case against Brand is that one of the victims told her father and friends of what happened at the time which provided contemporary corroboration of her recollections. His victims independently describes a similar pattern of behaviour. The testimony of many of the women was very consistent over the course of the investigation and trial, they did not change their stories "on demand". So it was much more than a case of "he said, she said." Rape and sexual abuse cases are notoriously difficult for the Crown Prosecution Service to secure a guilty court verdict (I think it's only about 4%) and the fact that was was the outcome in this case shows the strength of the evidence presented against Brand.</blockquote>