Dana Fowley watched two men, Ian Davidson and Neil Kendall, accused of raping her when she was just 10 walk free – why?

The case collapsed after Dana Fowley’s mother, 46-year-old Caroline Dunsmore, who is serving a 12-year jail sentence for the abuse of Dana Fowley, gave the High Court in Dunfermline contradictory accounts from the witness box.

On the first day of the trial, she told jurors that she had watched television while her daughter was raped by the men at a chalet at Abernethy Caravan Park.

However, on Monday, Dunsmore said she had been “mistaken” in her account and that neither Mr Kendall or Mr Davidson had sex with her daughter.

The Crown said Dunsmore’s evidence had been an essential part of their case.

The judge Lady Stacey acquitted both Mr Kendall and Mr Davidson of the charges against them and said they were allowed to go free. BBC.

This leaves Dana Fowley’s word against her abusers – yet again the rapists win: I refer you to the appallingly low conviction rate of just 6% for rape which Afua Hirsch reported for The Guardian back in March of this year.

A travesty of justice, what hope does a child have when a 29-year-old woman can’t obtain justice?