Barrister says women dressed inappropriately give out ‘wrong message’

David Osborne (pictured) said girls who are dressed inappropriately are giving out the “wrong message”.

He said: “Girls who go out - what I would call inappropriately dressed - and I don’t say that because I’m 71-years-old, I say that because I can see for myself - on a cold winters night girls going around in very flimsy dresses what I would call inappropriately dressed, and that sends out the wrong message.

“It sends out the message I’m loose and I’m free.

“It’s a combination of short skirt and general behaviour.

“You don’t go out on a cold winters night dressed, what I call, provocatively, if all you’re planning to do is have a lime and tonic water.

“They are sending a message which is I am, up for a good time, which includes obviously drinking a fair amount of alcohol which they do. It’s not just girls, but girls are the ones who complain.”

Mr Osborne added: “In my opinion, a bit more careful about the way they behave.

“What I’m saying is how they are dressed suggests a sort of behaviour which is open to exploitation, let’s put it that way.

“Open to exploitation by a lad or a bloke who’s going to take one look at the girl and say to himself ‘she looks like a goer.”

In relation to his blog post last week Mr Osborne said: ” was poorly worded.

“What I meant was, and was trying to get across..is to try and show to a jury at least that there are other explanations that they should take into account.”

As for the language he used, he said: “I have vulgarised it by the expression ‘she was gagging for it’ but it’s called being commercial I suppose.

“That’s the way I write my blogs and I won’t apologise for it.”

He was also critical of director of public prosecutions Alison Saunders in his blog, he wrote: “My considerable experience tells me that there are basically two defences to an allegation of rape: either ‘it wasn’t me gov’, or ‘she was gagging for it’.

“It is also correct in my own experience that most of those accused of rape are acquitted , not simply as a result of the brilliance of my advocacy, but because the jury did not believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the victim did not consent.

“Into this squirming sack of grubby emotions steps Alison Saunders, who is apparently the Director of Public Prosecutions, so she should know better.

“She has decided, or rather it has been decided for her, that anybody who makes an allegation of rape must be believed, and everything possible in the trial process must be bent towards the conviction of the accused.

“Rape trials from now on are no longer to be prosecution led, but conviction led, and when you add into the mix that prison sentences for rape are getting longer and longer, the opportunities for a serious miscarriage of justice are self-evident. Or should that be ‘Ms.Carriage’?”