I’m ashamed to confess that I missed this post from Jonathan until today.

I would have liked to have been able to express genuine shock and disbelief but, alas, given the psychosis surrounding alleged sex offences that has infected our entire judicial and law enforcement apparatus, I can’t truthfully lay claim to either sentiment.

I am, though, utterly sickened by it and I viscerally despise it. Neither of which, of course, is of much use to Mr King.

I often wonder what historians of the future will make of this unhinged and inexhaustibly cruel mania for victim idolatry, accusation and the presumption of guilt that has been madly erupting from within a culture founded on liberty, the rule of law and the presumption of innocence.

I can only hope and pray that wisdom, reason and truth will prevail in that courtroom in June. I fully appreciate that it’s of little to no consolation, JK, but you’re now very much in my thoughts and prayers (admittedly, a weirdly anomalous practice for an increasingly doubting and less certain atheist). I hope that you somehow find the strength to bear the terrible strain this has to be placing on you. And I hope, above all (if somewhat plangently), that sanity, reason and the intelligent evaluation of the credibility of the evidence permeates that courtroom.

What so many people don’t appear to appreciate in their outrage and revulsion over alleged offences of this sort is that if it can happen to JK, it can happen to them, or their loved ones.

I love your necessarily stubborn faith in hope, JK, and I can only wish you not simply good fortune, but a genuine encounter with wisdom, reason and justice on the part of those charged with judging you in the ordeal ahead.

Bon courage!

Oh gosh. Saw this in Metro today. There are no words. Oh hello Daily Mail, still here?

Best wishes to you JK in these dark and ludicrous times

X Adam

Thanks to you all and to the many not accessing this site but calling directly or contacting via Social Media. That is an interesting phenomenon, isn't it? Giving access to the views of the many, on all sides, and illustrating just how varied people's minds can be. The judicial system, as well as the media, has not quite caught up with the changes in society. That applies globally as well as just here in the UK.

I am horrified and yet not at all surprised, Mr King. I will be (virtually) hand holding and cheer-leading as usual, and I am confident that you will have the correct verdict this time.

I don't know enough about the case to have an opinion, so my only comment is that I believe that there should be a statute of limitations on such cases. In my view it should be 20 years.