If you have been raped, make sure you don't look happy...

A barrister has caused outrage by suggesting a rape victim could not have been upset by her ordeal because there were photos of her on Facebook looking happy. 

The woman was attacked in 2001 when she was 19 and has since tried to kill herself. 

Her attacker, Anthony Francis, was caught seven years later as a result of a DNA sample. 

His barrister tried to persuade a judge to be lenient by showing pictures posted on the social networking site of the woman laughing and smiling at a fancy dress party in the years since the rape. 

Colin McCarraher, defending, told Reading Crown Court last week: 'What we have is a person who has post traumatic stress but is quite capable of going out and having a good time at a fancy dress party.' More...

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• Female soldiers more likely to be raped by fellow-soldiers than killed in action...