Live broadcast on August 24 news The Athletic issued another document on Greenwood incident, explaining The assertion in Manchester United’s statement that they believed that The players had not committed charges.
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About Recording
Greenwood did not deny that the male voice was him. The players also admitted in the statement that they had made mistakes, but thought that people would think the worst. Arnold, the CEO of Manchester United, said that they got “other explanations” about the recording clips and said that the online clips were only a small part of the complete recording.
About videos
This was released by the plaintiff to the social media in person. No one could know why the plaintiff decided to release these on the social media except herself. In fact, the titles are attached to these videos, indicating that she wants everyone to know what Greenwood did, which can’t help raising questions.
However, Manchester United concluded from their investigation that Greenwood did not physically abuse the plaintiff. Manchester United claimed that no objection was received after these findings were submitted to the plaintiff’s family.
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Police statement and Manchester United investigation
Manchester United said that the plaintiff did not take the initiative to contact the police, but the police contacted her and accepted the conversation of “obtaining the best evidence (achieving best evidence)” after the incident in January. Three months later, the woman withdrew the lawsuit, but this did not affect her willingness to state the facts at first.
Manchester United said that they had done a lot of work to understand the facts, but did not directly contact the plaintiff, but contacted her mother with her knowledge. The club also stated that the injured families were given the opportunity to correct the investigation results, but they did not do so, which also led Manchester United to the conclusion that Greenwood did not commit charges.
Legal viewpoint
Arnold, the CEO of Manchester United, thinks Greenwood is innocent in the charge, but he is neither a lawyer nor a judge, so his legal judgment may be questioned and criticized, however, the statement admitted Greenwood had made a “mistake” and they did not give further explanation.
The man city police and the British Royal procuratorate (CPS) did not seem to agree with this view. The police determined that it was necessary to conduct an investigation and had a dialogue with the victim and Greenwood, they did not conclude that this was a misunderstanding, but submitted the collected evidence to CPS.
CPS reviewed the evidence and decided to accuse Greenwood of rape, illegal control and coercion, physical injury and other crimes in last October after considering that it was sufficient for trial. But in February this year, with the withdrawal of key witnesses and the emergence of new evidence, the charges were dropped.
Manchester United said that the posts on the social media were only a small part of the evidence. Since the plaintiff had the right to remain anonymous for life, the new evidence would not be disclosed.
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