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Anonymity for men falsely accused of rape

6 September 2022

8:00 AM

6 September 2022

8:00 AM

‘No man should have to go what I went through,’ said the teary John Jarratt, after a jury took 15 minutes to decide he was not guilty of an alleged rape forty years earlier. He’d been through twenty months of what he called ‘media death row’, with the worldwide press coverage traumatic for his entire family.

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