In 2022, the prosecutors had authorised two prices of indecent assault in opposition to the previous Hollywood producer.
Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein won’t face prices of indecent assault in Britain, prosecutors say.
In June 2022, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) stated it had authorised London’s Metropolitan Police Service to file two prices of indecent assault in opposition to Weinstein in relation to an alleged incident that occurred in London in 1996. The accuser was in her 50s on the time of the announcement.
On Thursday, the CPS stated it determined to discontinue proceedings as a result of there was “not a sensible prospect of conviction”.
“Following a assessment of the proof on this case, the CPS has determined to discontinue prison proceedings in opposition to Harvey Weinstein,” said Frank Ferguson, head of the CPS particular crime and counterterrorism division.
“The CPS has an obligation to maintain all circumstances underneath steady assessment, and we now have determined that there is no such thing as a longer a sensible prospect of conviction,” he added.
After the revelations in opposition to him in the UK emerged, British police stated they have been investigating a number of allegations of sexual assault that reportedly passed off from the Eighties to 2015. In contrast to many different international locations, Britain doesn’t have a statute of limitations for rape or sexual assault.
Weinstein, 72, was discovered responsible of rape allegations and jailed for 23 years in the US in 2020 in a milestone for the #MeToo motion, through which girls accused a whole lot of males in leisure, media, politics and different fields of sexual misconduct.
However in April, New York’s highest court docket overturned Weinstein’s conviction on intercourse crime prices in a shock reversal.
The Courtroom of Appeals discovered the trial decide erred in admitting the testimony of extra girls who have been allegedly abused by Weinstein however who weren’t named within the prices introduced in opposition to him, and it ordered a brand new trial.
He might face a retrial as early as November.
In July, prosecutors in New York additionally introduced that authorities have been investigating “extra violent sexual assaults” allegedly carried out by Weinstein that weren’t topic to a statute of limitations.
