We don’t need your lectures, Ched

CHeD evanS, that fine and upstanding defender of women’s virtue, has spoken out on the issue of female safety.

In an interview with The Times, the Sheffield United player warned women they are putting themselves in danger by drinking because there are ‘genuine rapists out there’ who will ‘prey on them’. Genuine rapists? as opposed to what? assailants who don’t really mean it?

Last year, you might recall that evans was found not guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman. Unusually, this was his second trial, having been convicted for the first time in 2012 and sentenced to five years in jail.

Today, he is an innocent man and has even been re-signed by his old club. Perhaps he believes his rehabilitation will be complete if he makes the right concerned noises about sexual consent — and his belief that the police only targeted him because he was famous.

Shall we remind ourselves of the facts? One sordid night six years ago, evans responded to a 3am text from a friend that he had ‘got a girl’ and taken her back to their hotel. evans whizzed round in a taxi, had sex with the girl after his mate did, while his brother tried to film events through the bedroom window.

evans later made his exit via the hotel’s fire escape — ever the gentleman!

Such touching concern for the safety of a young woman.

He really shames us all.