In 2022, prosecutors had approved two prices of indecent assault in opposition to the previous Hollywood producer.
Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein won’t face indecent assault prices in Britain, prosecutors say.
In June 2022, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) stated it had authorised London’s Metropolitan Police Service to deliver two prices of indecent assault in opposition to Weinstein in relation to an alleged incident in London in 1996. The accuser was 50 years previous on the time of the announcement.
On Thursday, prosecutors stated that they had determined to droop the proceedings as a result of “there was not a practical prospect of conviction.”
“After reviewing the proof on this case, the Legal professional Normal’s Workplace has determined to discontinue prison proceedings in opposition to Harvey Weinstein,” stated Frank Ferguson, chief of the Legal professional Normal’s Workplace’s Particular Crimes and Anti-Terrorism Division.
“The Prosecutor’s Workplace has an obligation to maintain all circumstances below steady overview, and we have now determined that there is no such thing as a longer a practical prospect of conviction,” he added.
Following the revelations in opposition to him within the UK, British police stated they had been investigating a number of allegations of sexual assault that allegedly befell between 1980 and 2015. In contrast to many different international locations, Britain has no statute of limitations for rape or sexual assault.
Weinstein, 72, was convicted of rape allegations and jailed for 23 years in the US in 2020 in a landmark case for the #MeToo motion, through which girls have accused tons of of males in leisure, media, politics and different fields of sexual misconduct.
However in April, New York’s highest courtroom overturned Weinstein’s conviction on intercourse crimes prices in a surprising reversal.
The appeals courtroom discovered that the trial choose erred in admitting testimony from different girls who had been allegedly abused by Weinstein however weren’t named within the prices in opposition to him, and ordered a brand new trial.
He may face a brand new trial as early as November.
In July, New York prosecutors additionally introduced that authorities had been investigating “further violent sexual assaults” allegedly carried out by Weinstein that weren’t topic to a statute of limitations.
