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<p>Lucy Kellaway has issued her 2016 Golden Flannel Awards. They're behind the FT paywall but I heard some results on BBC. Her nerbs (nouns turned into verbs) were:</p>
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<p>To effort. To front-burnerize. To town hall. To potentiate. To future. To value add.</p>
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<p>More here <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://ig.ft.com/sites/guffipedia/'>https://ig.ft.com/sites/guffipedia/</a></p> -
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<p>Lucy Kellaway has issued her 2016 Golden Flannel Awards. They're behind the FT paywall but I heard some results on BBC. Her nerbs (nouns turned into verbs) were:</p>
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<p>To effort. To front-burnerize. To town hall. To potentiate. To future. To value add.</p>
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<p>More here <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://ig.ft.com/sites/guffipedia/'>https://ig.ft.com/sites/guffipedia/</a></p>
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<p>this is as good a place as any...</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/76770117/mans-life-destroyed-by-preposterous-sexual-assault-charge'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/76770117/mans-life-destroyed-by-preposterous-sexual-assault-charge</a></p>
<p> </p>Man's life destroyed by 'preposterous' sexual assault charge <div>
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<p class=""><span>Last updated 07:49, February 11 2016</span></p>
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<p>A report from BBC News details how a split-second encounter ruined one man's life.</p>
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<p>A walk through one of the busiest train stations in the UK changed Mark Pearson's life forever.</p>
<p>It took him just half a second to pass an award-winning actress at a busy train station but that was enough for prosecutors to charge with him sexual assault.</p>
<p>When the case finally got to court a jury needed only 90 minutes to reject the allegations, but by then the damage had been done to Pearson, a 51-year-old artist and picture framer.</p>
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<p>CCTV footage shows Mark Pearson never took his hands off his bag or his newspaper.</p>
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<p>It was claimed he assaulted the TV, theatre and radio actress penetratively for "two or three seconds" as he walked past her at London's Waterloo station, before landing a heavy blow to her left shoulder as he pushed past her, <i>The Telegraph</i> reported.</p>
<p>CCTV footage could not establish if Pearson and the woman made physical contact as they walked quickly past each other. A forensic expert for the defence told Blackfriars Crown Court Pearson had passed the actress in half a second, saying any assault was a logistical impossibility.</p>
<p>Specialist CCTV forensic expert Jacob Blythe showed Pearson was carrying a newspaper in his left hand - the one he was alleged to have used in the assault​ - and holding his bag in his right.</p>
<p><i>The Telegraph</i> said the case raised more questions about the decision-making in sexual assault cases by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), in particular pressing ahead with improperly investigated prosecutions with gaping holes in the evidence.</p>
<p>In Pearson's case, the woman failed to pick him out of an identity parade, there was no forensic evidence, and there were no witnesses despite the train station being crowded with commuters.</p>
<p>The CPS also produced the CCTV footage during the three-day court hearing last week at half its normal speed - a critical change, given the case rested on whether Pearson had enough time to commit the assault. </p>
<p>"They said they did it for technical reasons; what they were we weren't told," Pearson said.</p>
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<p>The CPS had the CCTV evidence right from the start, and from it could have realised the complainant's statement was "total crap" and dismissed the case, he said.</p>
<p>He believed the CPS was overly keen to get convictions at all costs, after high-profile mistakes in cases such as those involving broadcasting personalities Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris.</p>
<p>The incident allegedly happened on December 3, 2014, although the first Pearson knew about it was when six police officers turned up on his doorstep on February 5, 2015. From the start he called the claim "preposterous".</p>
<p>He had no memory of the day he walked past the actress - it was the same "boring journey" from home to work he made regularly.</p>
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<p>That's... insane.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="557913" data-time="1455139597"><p>The nutter who made the allegations is going to be on GOT , I hope her new found fame hurts her career.</p></blockquote>
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It's on the internet now, I think the suppression only applies in the Uk but I'm not sure if the mods want it posted here. -
<p>nah best not to.</p>
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<p>why did she make the accusation?</p>
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<p>Are we sure it was her fault.</p>
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<p>i.e. was it a false accusation per se or were the police at fault for prosecuting the wrong man?</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="557918" data-time="1455141497"><p>It's on the internet now, I think the suppression only applies in the Uk but I'm not sure if the mods want it posted here.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Gotta feel for the bloke, but really if she wants to go that way, then its time to harden up, lawyer up, and sue the fucking bitch for everything she has</p>
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<p>is very sad she is allowed name suppression for saying what he did, yet he is dragged through the wringer and named for something he didn't do!</p>
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<p>He cannot.</p>
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<p>Fuck. That was the extent of my legal knowledge.</p>
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<p>It's on the internet now, I think the suppression only applies in the Uk but I'm not sure if the mods want it posted here.</p>
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<p>Fuck. That was the extent of my legal knowledge.</p>
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<p>Court system is fucked.</p>
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<p>I read quite a compelling argument that it isnt her fault, she may well have been sexually assaulted by someone. It is really the police and prosecutors who decided that it was him and pushed it through against all evidence. Personally I think the people who decided to push the case should all be fired and prosecuted (somehow)</p>
