In the gay panic defence, the defendant claims that they have been the object of homosexual romantic or sexual advances. The defendant finds the advances so offensive and frightening that it brings on a psychotic state characterized by unusual violence.
It was just yesterday I had hinted to the strategy sometimes via my last podcast that is used by some persons in incidents involving alleged gay men and other men (gay or not) in court to justify violent actions taken by them in supposed self defence to ward of unwanted sexual advances. Sometimes these advances cannot be proven and it seems this particular case is one such where experienced and sometimes controversial Judge Judith Pusey did not seem to have taken the bait according to the Star News:
The story read as follows:
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MAN TELLS COURT ... DOCTOR OFFERED ME MONEY FOR SEX
"Mi never do it fi fame, Your Honour, di doctor did a bring gay argument to me," the accused told the court.
Phillips, 27, has been charged with unlawful wounding.
Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey sentenced the accused to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court last Friday.
The accused was previously remanded for psychiatric evaluation and was deemed fit to plea to the serious offence.
Allegations are that the accused showed up at the complainant's place of work when an argument developed. It is alleged that the accused left and then returned to the complainant's office where he used a knife to stab the doctor in his neck.
Before Phillips was sentenced, he told RM Pusey that he had contracted a sexual transmitted disease and that was his purpose for being at the complainant's office.
"Your Honour, mi girlfriend give me a disease and some little rash come upon mi. So mi go to di doctor and him a offer mi any amount of money for sex. Mi did have to defend myself and give him di knife in his neck," Phillips said.
The court heard that the accused had showed up at the doctor's office pretending that he was there for a follow-up visit, however, the doctor told the police that he was seeing Phillips for the first time.
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The archive above from way back in 1980 shows how long we have come with this strategy being used by accused persons, in some cases it maybe true but often times the evidence does not bear it out as was attempted in the Peter King murder trial as well and several other matters.
Last year in October I questioned a similar case that appeared in the Observer on a then teen who allegedly killed a man who reportedly made several passes at him in the man's yard and he repeatedly visited the home none the less.
See: Questions on reported murder/buggery case in court
I also understand the sexual grooming concept and the way in which abusers prepare and lure their victims even get them to come to them repeatedly on a premise of false trust and a reward of some kind with secrecy but the details of that case as it played out in court did not set a trend of that nature and it was the same Judge Pusey who heard the matter.
I also understand the sexual grooming concept and the way in which abusers prepare and lure their victims even get them to come to them repeatedly on a premise of false trust and a reward of some kind with secrecy but the details of that case as it played out in court did not set a trend of that nature and it was the same Judge Pusey who heard the matter.
It seems some resident magistrates are seeing the various issues with more clarity and not just freeing persons simply on the merit of self defence masked in the trial as a gay panic response and are delving more to get the psychological tenets of the matters and sequence of events to find truth.
Thank God
Peace and tolerance
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