Harvey Weinstein won’t face charges of indecent assault in Britain

LONDON (AP) — Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein received’t face expenses of indecent assault in Britain, prosecutors introduced on Thursday.

The Crown Prosecution Service, which in 2022 approved two expenses of indecent assault towards Weinstein, stated it determined to discontinue proceedings as a result of there was “not a sensible prospect of conviction.’’

“We now have defined our determination to all events,’’ the CPS stated in an announcement. ’’We might all the time encourage any potential victims of sexual assault to return ahead and report back to police, and we are going to prosecute wherever our authorized check is met.”

Weinstein turned essentially the most outstanding villain of the #MeToo motion in 2017 when girls started to go public with accounts of his habits. After the revelations emerged, British police stated they have been investigating a number of allegations of sexual assault that reportedly came about between the Eighties and 2015.

In June 2022, the Crown Prosecution Service stated it had approved London’s Metropolitan Police Service to file two expenses of indecent assault towards Weinstein in relation to an alleged incident that occurred in London in 1996. The sufferer was in her 50s on the time of the announcement.

In contrast to many different international locations, Britain doesn’t have a statute of limitations for rape or sexual assault.

Weinstein, who has denied that he raped or sexually assaulted anybody, stays in custody in New York whereas awaiting retrial in Manhattan, prosecutors stated in August.

After the retrial, he is because of begin serving a 16-year sentence in California for a separate rape conviction in Los Angeles, authorities stated. Weinstein was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 whereas already serving a 23-year sentence in New York.

His 2020 conviction in Manhattan was thrown out earlier this yr when the state’s high courtroom dominated that the choose within the unique trial unfairly allowed testimony towards Weinstein primarily based on allegations that weren’t a part of the case.

Weinstein, the co-founder of the Miramax leisure firm and The Weinstein Firm movie studio, was as soon as probably the most highly effective individuals in Hollywood, having produced movies resembling “Pulp Fiction” and “The Crying Sport.”

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Related Press author Brian Melley contributed to this report.