My concern was not about politics.

My lord, people have done worse things than that in conspiracies.

She is quite capable of saying 'no' to him.

We have demonstrated that the complainant has a penchant for making false allegations of rape or attempted rape. That has been demonstrated.

This is not a shy 15 or 16-year-old girl ... She knows how to stand up for herself.

We know this is not an ordinary rape trial. It has very much a political element -- not in the court but to the outside world.

A finding of lack of mens rea (guilty mind) is the obvious finding.