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WEEKLY LEGAL NUGGETS

THE RADIANT JUSTICE CHAMBERS, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY THE LEGENDARY AND BIZARRE RAPE CASE THAT WAS UNANIMOUSLY OVERTURNED   The case of R v Collins (1973) QB 100 is one of the most bizarre case that a criminal law student will find in his studies as the facts are particularly remarkable and the judgment that supported the “I thought I had just got lucky” view has become one of the most debated judgment of all time. In this case, the defendant Mr Collins, a 19 year old workman who had previously worked in the house of the victim, a 18 year old young woman went out for drinks and at about 2:00am went to the house drunk. The young woman was sleeping in bed naked and the window to her room was wide open. The room was not on the ground floor so Collins took a ladder and climbed over to the window seeing her laying in bed naked. He went down the ladder to undress leaving only his socks on. The victim having met her boyfriend a few hours earlier to that time thought t...