MAN CONVICTED OF RAPE

A man could be convicted of rape
even if the woman agreed to have
sex, judges in the UK have ruled.
A court headed by the Lord Chief
Justice, Lord Judge, ruled in a sign-
post decision that a man would still
be guilty if he did something she
asked him not to.
The High Court ordered the Director
of Public Prosecutions to think again
over a decision not to prosecute a
man accused of raping his wife.
The woman had consented to sex, but
only on condition that her husband
withdrew as she did not want to
become pregnant.
However, at the last minute he told
her he was not withdrawing and told
her 'because you are my wife and I'll
do it if I want'.
The woman who did not want another
child become pregnant after the
incident in February 2010.
In his landmark decision Lord Judge
ruled that because the man, the
woman's husband under Sharia law,
did not stick to his part of the pre-sex
deal he could, in the eyes of the law,
be held guilty of rape.
The judges said she 'was deprived of
choice relating to the crucial feature
on which her original consent to
sexual intercourse was based'.
Granting a judicial review of the
decision not to prosecute, the Lord
Judge said that the woman's consent
was 'negated' by the man's failure to
withdraw.
He said that the woman's essential
evidence was that after her Islamic
marriage to the man in November
2009 their relationship was marred by
his abusive dominance.