Clause 13
Policing and Crime Bill
2:00 pm
Evan Harris (Oxford West and Abingdon, Liberal Democrat)
If I remember correctly—I made an effort to remember, because I was concerned about the portrayal—what the POPPY project know, what we hear third hand, not even second hand, is that the men had sex with the women. We do not know that the women told the POPPY project that the men knew; all we know is that the women told the project that the men had had sex with them—as I said, it is quite possible that the men might have realised after they had had sex, and they did not know before they had sex. Dealing with third-hand judgments is not something of merit, either for the Minister or for me.