Time to remove victim-blaming from our courtrooms

LAST weekend, a 61-year-old man by the name of Russell Sykes, entirely of his own volition, crouched down on a Dublin street during the Pride parade and used the camera on his phone to film up a woman’s skirt.

Time to remove victim-blaming from our courtrooms

LAST weekend, a 61-year-old man by the name of Russell Sykes, entirely of his own volition, crouched down on a Dublin street during the Pride parade and used the camera on his phone to film up a woman’s skirt.

In court, defence solicitor Michael Hanahoe cited a “certain looseness of behaviour” by some of the participants of the parade.

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