Irish firefighter found guilty of rape in Boston!

What I take issue with is the suggestion that his guilt was somehow obvious because he returned home early.

He raped her and tried to flee.

Again hardly a mystery this one.

You don't know 100% that he raped a woman. He may have, but based on the available evidence there is definitely doubt as to whether he did it.

People are wrongfully convicted all the time. Juries are comprised of fallible human beings. I think he did it, but he might not have done it.

Your analysis is very simplistic.

You have no idea why he tried to come home early, unless of course you are a mind reader. !

Are you aware that sometimes people are wrongfully convicted?

Believe it or not juries don't have mystical powers to transport themselves through time and space to experience events as they happened. They are fallible human beings.

There are aspects of doubt about this case. Based on the evidence it's reasonable to believe he committed the offence. It's also reasonable to believe that he didn't commit the offence or may not have committed the offence.

Not convicted in the trial !

I don’t think the fact that he went to the airport is evidence of rape, you need a bit more than that.

As has been pointed out numerous times, no one, guilty or innocent is going to just casually carry on with their holiday once they've been questioned by American police as a person of interest in a serious crime.

"Oh well I'm glad I cleared up that whole rape business with the NYPD, renowned worldwide for their fairness in dealing with suspects. Now off to the parade!"

I think he's guilty btw, but not because he booked an early flight home!

I don't think the flight indicates much either tbh.

It has more crime. Cities with murder rates north of 30 per 100000, compared to 1-2 for Dublin.

Drug crime rates are equally nuts.

USA has a huge underclass and a barely existent social safety net. This is a primary driver of their crime.

So cities like San Francisco have effectively legalised drugs, legalised petty theft which has lower incarceration levels and turned the cities into absolute sh1tholes.

You need to show data that suspects for sexual crimes have a higher conviction rate in USA than elsewhere. The fireman got two fair trials unless you have evidence they weren't fair?

Comparison with North Korea and the like are idiotic

EDIT NYT piece with some data on conviction rates for sexual crime differ from other crimes.

https://archive.ph/s9ysP

https://archive.ph/s9ysP

There isn't any DNA evidence that he raped her. It's her word against his. Overall I think the evidence suggests he did do it, but there is reasonable doubt. He may not have done it. We know that false or incorrect accusations happen sometimes.

Go on ill be the one to say it. In a reverse situation, if this was a foreigner in Ireland that tried to escape everyone here would be baying for blood and wouldn't give his guilt a second thought.

It was a hung jury. Only takes one to dissent. Which if that was the case. 23 jurors voted to convict.

Maybe the one juror shared your views. Who knows.

He booked a hotel bed for the night , she should have booked her own bed if she wanted to stay for the night.

I don't know 1000's mainly 10s of 1000s of mainly Kashmiri men got away with gang raping vulnerable children for a generation in UK and rather than offending anyone the UK authorities in most cases didn't even bother recording the ethnicity of the rapists.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/16/grooming-gangs-in-uk-thrived-in-culture-of-ignorance-casey-report-says

When we had a high profile murder of a young woman here the media was awash with how violent men were i.e. native irish men. When it emerged he was not Irish the narrative changed completely and it was only quite recently his Roma origins were reported.

How was the reporting of the wanabee gay serial killer Yousef Palani reported once it emerged? All chat about homophobic violence prior to his background being known. Was there any mainstream newspaper discussing the huge problem within muslim culture with regard to homophobia?

Personally I'd just like to see rapists and murderers in jail irrespective of their background/race.

They were showing this on a tv channel called courttv last week on iptv, I was following some of it there. The defense were pushing for the beyond reasonable doubt angle and some of the "experts" the tv channel were getting their own opinions from during the case were also saying the whole reasonable doubt thing. It came down to his word against hers (and the legal teams) as there was no dna matched to him and both stories had some anomalies (Some of which have already been mentioned here), not saying he didn’t do it btw before anyone suggests otherwise…