Among those early complainants in 1998 were Joachim Starbatty, professor of political economics at Tübingen University, and Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider, a law professor from Erlangen.
Compare this with the devastating effects on the women whose rape could have been prevented if earlier complainants had been believed.
This is unfortunately likely to be all the more so because of the long-term publicity which has now been given to the unsatisfactory way in which earlier complainants have been treated by the criminal justice system.
The questionnaire was based on open interviews with a total of 15 complainants whose complaints were finalised (11 interviews with individual complainants and one focus group meeting with four other complainants).
Sir Keir said: "It was very important for me to meet the complainants very early in the process so that I could assure them as to how I was going to conduct the review, engage with them and do my best to ensure they had confidence in the process.
The data for the complainant and complainer were only extractable in 61% of the studies.
Earlier in the hearing, the younger complainant's mother described to the court the moment her son disclosed to her that Lakey had allegedly taken his virginity illegally.
The complainant, a man in his early 20s, alleged that a plainclothes cop had stopped, frisked, and searched him after he stepped out of a bodega.
As Evans was acquitted of rape at a retrial on Friday, five years after having sex with the woman in a hotel room, activists expressed fear that an earlier appeal court ruling which allowed the complainant's sexual behaviour to be taken into account by the jury would set a dangerous precedent, and could deter women from coming forward to report sexual offences.
When he didn't resign, the school launched a Title IX investigation, with no complainant, that accused him of sexually harassing a former student five years earlier—but the former student sent the school a signed affidavit saying that the charges were baseless.
