A court docket in Los Angeles in 2022 convicted Harvey Weinstein of raping an actress within the metropolis. (File)
London:
British prosecutors mentioned on Thursday they’d discontinued indecent assault expenses in opposition to former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
“Following a assessment of the proof on this case, the CPS has determined to discontinue felony proceedings in opposition to Harvey Weinstein,” mentioned Frank Ferguson, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) Particular Crime and Counter Terrorism Division
“The CPS has an obligation to maintain all circumstances beneath steady assessment and we’ve determined that there is no such thing as a longer a sensible prospect of conviction.”
When it authorised expenses two years in the past, the CPS mentioned the alleged assault had taken place in August 1996 in London, with police saying the accusation concerned a girl, now aged in her 50s.
Weinstein, 72, has denied having any non-consensual sexual encounters with anybody.
Jurors in Manhattan discovered him responsible on rape expenses in February 2020, however the New York Courtroom of Appeals threw out the conviction in April, discovering Weinstein didn’t get a good trial as a result of a choose improperly allowed testimony by accusers he was not formally charged with assaulting.
A court docket in Los Angeles in 2022 convicted him of raping an actress within the metropolis.
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