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Judges said alleged victim’s story was not credible enough because she was unattractive

Two men were cleared of rape charges partly because the alleged victim looked “too masculine” to be a target of attraction.

The men had been convicted of raping a woman who was 22 at the time of the attack in 2015, by a court of first instance in 2016.

They were then acquitted by the Ancona appeals court, with the judges’ reasoning document including a passage that said the woman’s story was not credible enough as she resembled a man and was therefore unappealing.

“It was disgusting to read; the judges expressed various reasons for deciding to acquit them, but one was because the [defendants] said they didn’t even like her, because she was ugly. They also wrote that a photograph of the woman reflected this.”