Here at Nineveh, we have spent a lot of time looking at the various flawed processes relating to the attacks on Professor Martyn Percy which implicate the Hierarchy of the Church of England, the Diocese of Oxford, the Staff of Christ Church Oxford and various ‘professional’ representatives of all of the above.

But what about the alleged ‘victim’ in all this ?

Ms Alanah Jeune chose to make her identity public some years ago, and continues to publish unfounded allegations even though her case has been dismissed by the most senior judge in the Church of England, as well as by Thames Valley Police.

Our consideration starts with this analysis published in the religious blog of ‘Archbishop Cranmer’ which for many years exposed unpalatable truths about evil and corruption in churches, until it finally closed, exhausted by the constant threats of legal action by angry church officials and their congregation-funded lawyers. We did unearth this interesting report which considers the situation from the perspective of a piece of very questionable journalism published in the UK Daily Telegraph on 13 May 2022. See https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/13/exclusive-victim-breaks-silence-reveal-alleged-sexual-harassment/ and then read this reflection on it: https://nineveh.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Alannah-Jeune-Camilla-Tominey-Archbishop-Cranmer-Article.pdf

She stridently declares that she was ‘sexually assaulted’ yet the act of which she has accused Prof. Percy (which he has always totally denied) was touching her hair for less than 10 seconds. No authority has ever deemed that this would have been in any way a sexual assault (were it to be true, which Prof. Percy states that it is not).

Miss Jeune has received a payment from Christ Church (made out of court and therefore not arising from any judicial process) but this was not at the behest of or with the approval of Prof. Percy, who also received a total of more than £2 million in damages and associated costs from Christ Church. As you will see below, there are even questions about whether she was an employee of Christ Church.

There are also some very serious questions which have never been answered about precisely what Miss Jeune’s employment and immigration status was in the UK at the time of the alleged incident and prior to it. Why should this matter ? Sadly, where someone is in desperate need to regularise their immigration status in the UK, they become vulnerable to all sorts of pressures and threats from those around them. They may also be very willing to please those who help them. This document raises questions which deserve deeper investigation to determine whether crimes have been committed here, since it creates a whole new perspective on matters. Read these questions here for yourself: https://nineveh.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Questions-on-Times-Dates-and-Places-re-Jeune-Visa.docx.pdf

It should also be noted that despite the enormous publicity which this matter received, no student, alumnus or member of staff from any institution where Prof. Percy has ever taught, nor any colleague from his long and distinguished career has come forward to make similar allegations to those of Miss Jeune. Yet this allegation arises at a particularly sensitive moment when Prof. Percy was engaged in complex litigation against Christ Church having already been completely cleared of a vast number of complaints levelled against him by the College.

It also should be noted that this was not a case of “he said, she said” because there was a witness present at the time of the alleged incident who asserted that “nothing untoward happened” but whose evidence was suppressed by the supposedly ‘independent’ investigation by Kate Wood.

Miss Jeune’s claims have changed over time and have become more lurid, so perhaps it is time to look at these more closely.

The document below looks at 9 specific claims by Ms Jeune and either refutes them or places them into a wider context, which demonstrates that each of them is either untrue or less sinister than the way in which they have been portrayed.

So please read this and judge for yourselves:
https://nineveh.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Refuting-A-Jeune.pdf