He said /she said is not supposed to be the standard for incarceration. My understanding was that part of it was him saying "sorry love" and treating that as a confession. The evidence presented might have justified a civil lawsuit.First, none of the alleged rapes were witnessed by a third party. The rape charges were based only on allegations made by the victims.
Second, there doesn't have to be any truth to it. Nor is making unfounded allegations necessarily perjury. Nor would they go to jail if their alleagtions were not founded. Nor would they lose custody of their children.
Third, having said that, I do think that Brand could be found guilty on the balance of probability on the basis of the accusations against him. But not beyond reasonable doubt (the criminal burden of proof). But I've alredy said that.
The only way a guy can protect himself now is to have a consent contract detailing what is consented to, safe words detailed to announce when going beyond coconsent, signed and notarized, and then the whole encounter recorded on video for evidenciary purposes.
Oh well, the UK is a banana republic now anyway.