Multi-millionaire hedge fund manager ... who is worth an estimated £823million ...
Until hordes of alleged victims of crime start coming forward about dustbin collecters and street sweepers, it's hard not to be sceptical about these claims against the wealthy.
... The court was told how the woman reported Odey to the police after poring over reports in the media about the Harvey Weinstein rape allegations and the #MeToo movement. ...
Reminds me of the Australian Rolf Harris accuser who, in one of her
paid interviews to the media a year before the trial, said that she had become "
fixated on child sexual assault cases" (
magazine interview). Curiously, the story she told in a paid interview to Australian TV's A Current Affair in May 2013, published immediately on YouTube, had numerous points in common (at least 20) with the story about Jimmy Savile told by his great niece, Caroline Robinson, in an interview given to ITV's This Morning in October 2012, that also appeared immediately on YouTube. (The original RH defence team were made aware of the two strikingly similar stories but, according to the appeal judgment, chose not to use it as they "were keen not to implant in the jury’s minds similarities between Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile". So the appeal court didn't allow the new defence team a "second bite of the cherry". See paras 83/84 of the
appeal judgment.) More curiously still, that Rolf Harris accuser's story mirrored in crucial ways the story told by Rolf Harris's main accuser: they both claimed that he groped them on his lap and, when they were under age (the main accuser at the youngest age at which she was claiming to have been abused, i.e. 13), fondled them intimately outside washing facilities after lying in wait for them. Given the parallels between those RH/JS stories, I have always wondered how the parallels, so neat and damning and suggestive of a
modus operandi, between the two RH accusers' stories (accounting for 10 of the 12 charges against RH) came about.