[GocartMozart]

that's my kind of party....

rooney, you have to slowly work up to that kind of line lad...jesus

[moley]

not when you make as much as he does :P

[losangeles]

I hate having any United players in the news with this kind of charge. Hopefully this will be a one off.

[GocartMozart]

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Manchester United 'rape' suspect 'could be victim of mistaken identity' | the Daily Mail

Manchester United 'rape' suspect 'could be victim of mistaken identity'
Last updated at 18:46pm on 24th December 2007
Manchester United rape suspect Jonny Evans could have been the victim of mistaken identity, police believe.



Detectives believe the model who claimed she was raped at Manchester United's Christmas party may have wrongly named the 19-year-old defender as her attacker.

They say "serious inconsistencies" have arisen in her account of the incident.

A police source said: "No one is saying she has done anything deliberately underhand. The problem is that free drink had been flowing all evening and there were a lot of people moving about the hotel. Doubts started to creep in.

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Jonny Evans, the Manchester United player quizzed by police, joined team-mate Rio Ferdinand to watch their side beat Everton at Old Trafford yesterday

"You have to remember when dealing with allegations of rape that we have to treat the complaint with great delicacy. It is a very difficult area and the Crown Prosecutin Service looks at the evidence very carefully.

Another police source said that if officers concluded the model had been wasting police time, she could be charged.

Sources say there are glaring inconsistencies between the written, audio and video statements by the 26-year-old woman.

Last week, the club's 19-year-old Northern Irish defender Jonny Evans was interviewed then bailed.


He is understood to have told friends he did not lay a finger on the woman and was targeted by her.

The alleged victim is understood to have given differing accounts of how she she came to be alone with the footballer, despite arriving at the party in Manchester with her boyfriend.


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Girls gather outside the hotel where the alleged orgy and rape took place

The source added: "She did not stand up well to questioning and seemed very muddled about events leading up to the alleged incident and what happened afterwards.

"Towards the end, she was even starting to express doubts about whether it was the footballer we had taken in for questioning or another of his team-mates.

"The commonly-held view here is that it would not only be a nightmare to prosecute but that this young lady could be wasting our time. Scroll down for more...


Manchester United players at the beginning of their Christmas night out. There is no suggestion that any of the players pictured was involved in the orgy

Meanwhile on Saturday Jonny Evans' girlfriend announced she was standing by him.

Student Kate Wathall, 20, said she did not believe that Jonny Evans attacked a woman at the club's sleazy Christmas party.

The 26-year-old was one of around 100 young women at the all-night event at a Manchester hotel, but the players' wives and girlfriends were not invited.

Miss Wathall, a student at Newcastle University, met the 19-year-old Northern Ireland international around a year ago while he was on loan at nearby Sunderland.

A friend said: "Jonny was smitten by her from the start.

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'Smitten': Kate Wathall has been seeing Jonny Evans for a year

"She is a great looking girl, blonde, bubbly and bright, and she is a sort of party-going girl and knows how to enjoy herself."

At her parents' £650,000 detached house in Sheffield, Miss Wathall said she had spent "hours" talking to the teenager - regarded as a possible star of the future - since he was arrested earlier this week.

"I am still Jonny's girlfriend and, yes, I am standing by him," she said.

"I'm not prepared to talk about Jonny or myself but we are still together and that's what matters to me and him."

Although Evans moved back to Manchester at the start of this season to attempt to break into the first team, the pair have continued to see one another regularly.

i must say, Evans looks like an innocent lad

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Football365.com - EVANS WON'T FACE RAPE CHARGE - All The News - Football365 News

SHOCKING!

EVANS WON`T FACE RAPE CHARGE
Manchester United defender Jonny Evans will not face charges over an alleged rape at the team's Christmas party.

Greater Manchester Police said the decision was taken after they presented evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service.

A statement read: "Greater Manchester Police gathered the evidence and compiled the case file for the Crown Prosecution Service.

"The CPS has now taken the decision to take no further action against the 19-year-old man arrested following an incident at a city centre hotel on Tuesday, December 18, 2007."

Evans, now 20, was arrested after a woman made an allegation of rape at the team's Christmas party at the Great John Street hotel.


Police were called to the hotel at 4.15am on December 18 last year after receiving calls a 26-year-old woman had been raped.

Evans, who has won nine caps for Northern Ireland, was arrested later that evening and then released on police bail.

A statement from the CPS said there was "insufficient evidence" to charge Evans, who was sent out on loan to Sunderland in January.

Carol Jackson, head of the rape and family abuse team at City of Manchester CPS, said: "We take any allegation of rape extremely seriously and all rape cases are reviewed by specialist prosecutors.

"After carefully examining the evidence in this case, we have decided that there is not enough evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction."


A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said no charges would be brought against the alleged victim.

Belfast-born Evans was not a regular in the United side before he was sent out on loan, although he had played for the first team three times, including two appearances in the Champions League.

He returned to Sunderland - where he spent last season on loan - and has made nine appearances as the Black Cats battle to avoid relegation.

A spokeswoman for Manchester United said the club had no comment to make about the decision not to press charges against Evans.