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Sex assault victim relives hell of false drug dealing accusation by attacker's lawyer
drug dealer while giving evidence.The woman said she was subjected to “inhumane” questioning by her attacker’s lawyers during repeated attempts to blacken her character.Lord Carloway, the Lord Justice General, said the victim was forced to endure “repetitive and at times irrelevant questioning” and described the case as a “serious failure in the administration of justice”.Shannon, 24, who has asked for her surname to be withheld, was attacked by Gavin MacDonald, her boyfriend’s flatmate, at a property in Bathgate, West Lothian, in August 2017.MacDonald, 52, was sentenced to 27 months in prison last September after being found guilty following a trial at Livingston Sheriff Court.He launched an appeal against his conviction claiming that, in
