{"id":496834,"date":"2026-03-26T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496834\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:31:08","slug":"rape-accused-does-not-know-how-his-dna-got-on-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496834\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape accused &#8216;does not know&#8217; how his DNA got on victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lisa Wilding KC, defending, asked Mr Quinn: &#8220;Do you accept that it is your DNA on [the complainant&#8217;s] vest?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I do, yes,&#8221; he replied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Do you know how it got there?&#8221;, Wilding asked. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I do not know,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilding KC continued: &#8220;Did it get there because you raped and attacked her on that night?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No,&#8221; replied Quinn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During a police interview before he was charged in 2024, the father of six told the police he had had sex with scores of women around the period of the attack, which took place on 19 July 2003, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking in his defence, he told jurors he was ashamed of his lifestyle at the time, which included cheating on his now ex-wife, but he did not know the complainant in this case. The victim, during her evidence earlier in the trial, told jurors she did not know Quinn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Wilding KC, defending, asked Mr Quinn: &#8220;Do you accept that it is your DNA on [the complainant&#8217;s]&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-496834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}