Irish Examiner View: Making an ordeal more intolerable for victims of crime

Before he began to use a walking frame or started dressing like a dishevelled, put-upon victim, rather than what he was — one of the most powerful figures in world entertainment — Harvey Weinstein bristled with powder-keg presence; the kind of presence some imagine is leadership, but others know as something very different. Were he to feature in one of his films, it would be as a character actor rather than as a leading man. He did not, from a distance at least, seem immediately avuncular or engaging.

On Monday, a New York jury found Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape and a criminal sex act, for forcing oral sex on a woman. The disgraced plutocrat was handcuffed and taken away to join New York’s criminals in detention. A March 11 sentencing could see him jailed for 25 years. His