Descriptions of how she was dressed, whether she was flirtatious, whether she had been drinking alcohol and was drunk have been used by defence lawyers to suggest that a victim may have, perhaps unwittingly, encouraged her attacker.
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Alcohol and rape
The behaviour of the victim is always a contentious and highly sensitive aspect of a rape trial.
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