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I'm confused. Your comment talks about her father and her fiance. What did she do?

"Amiee Chancellor is a despicable human being" is pretty heavy, but the only thing related to her in your comment is that "she forged documents in order to hire him as her election agent." Not cool, but is there more here?

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She lied to protect a known pedophile. I have limited myself to facts which have been proven in court. As a UK citizen, I am unable to make any statement which I cannot prove, less I be sued for libel. However I'll point out again that she lived in the house, the child was there for days, and there were photos of Amiee and the ten year old victim found by the police on Amiee's phone. There are plenty more facts available about this case which might cause you to question the decision making process of the CPS.

EDIT: I would link sources but the only sites which have properly covered this story are highly transphobic so I will refrain.

Hire her father after the allegations were known (to her and the public) as an election agent which put him into contact with vulnerable people[1], which is arguably both very reckless and borderline crony.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/12/green-party...

I don't know anything about the case that's not covered in this article... but I have the impression she's being judged by what her father did, which I find despicable. She deserves to be treated independently of that as I am sure it was not easy to live her whole life in the shadow of what happened.

Though I have no idea, I suppose her father couldn't get a job (I suppose he has paid his 22 years in jail now) so she might have felt like she had to step in to help?? I don't find that a huge problem, though if she did indeed forge documents , then of course she should be held accountable.

EDIT: I am sorry, I hadn't read the details of the case, so I assumed the crime had happened 22 years ago (as the father was free to work, I assumed he had paid his time)... but it seems he was on bail (!!!) from the crime, which happened in 2016!!! How does one get bail after such a crime?! I withdraw my comment above, this story is far too horrible and I don't want to be on the wrong side.

As far as I understand, he is currently in jail.

I think bail before conviction is fine if the person is not a flight-risk. (Innocence before being proven guilty, etc.) Far too many stories of people who are denied or unable to post bail (usually people without power or means) and get stuck in jail for months before ever seeing trial.

"photos on her phone" is pretty damning.

Oh wow, I completely missed that. Sorry!

Regardless, during the trial photos of Aimee with the victim were discovered on Amiee's phone.

Thanks for pointing that out. Yes of course, that's completely different.

Does anyone know where to find more info about this? It's such a strange situation.

EDIT: There are some details here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/coventry-captive...

though nothing about Aimee being in the photos. I'm curious how she wasn't implicated in that case. How weird...

While the site itself is pretty terrible, kiwifarms has a well written up history with evidence to back it up.

I'm sceptical about that detail because the UK is pretty zealous at paying attention to and prosecuting women believed to have been actively supporting the sex offences and there dont appear to have been any charges, or even any insinuations from the press.

What were the photos, though? People are saying photos of her with the victim, but were they pictures that implied she knew about the abuse?

Is lying to protect pedophiles not despicable?

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