Ottawa insurance salesman Paul Batchelor, 36, walked out of the Elgin Street courthouse Friday, freshly acquitted in two rape cases after a judge doubted the horrific claims — saying one complainant’s testimony that she was too intimidated to say “no” wasn’t reliable because of her “combative answers on the stand.”
The woman met Batchelor online and agreed to meet him at a bar for a drink. They ended up back at his apartment and the woman said Batchelor demanded oral sex. She described him as forceful, but said she thought if she told them to stop, he would. As for the alleged anal rape and “rough sex,” the judge said he found it difficult to accept the complainant’s “increasingly dramatic descriptions of the violent rape she claims to have ultimately endured when the photographic evidence and the hospital reports are reviewed.”“The Crown admitted that was a combative and argumentative witness. I find that she gave long speeches on consent and gave contradictory answers to many questions.
The complainant told court that she texted Batchelor the next day asking him why he didn’t stop when she asked. No text messages were filed at trial by either side. Batchelor and the young woman met in a study room at the university and then went to his nearby apartment. She testified at trial that after knowing him for only 40 minutes, Batchelor started kissing her, saying it came out of nowhere. She kissed him back and then told him: “I didn’t come here for a hook up” and he said “l know.”
Guilty as sin!!!
One day he will stumble ,,,