On the Martyna Ogonowska Case

UK : 17 years in gaol for stabbing rapist
Sarah Cain | 27 May 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

10:22 I have been targetted as an enemy of women for saying, if they are raped, they have no right to mete out death penalty on the rapist's child, which is also theirs, through abortion.

I've also said, if a woman getting raped killed in self defense, I'd not count that as a crime.

Seems the UK got that somewhat backwards.

Michael Hirst

@michaelhirst4191

But she wasn’t being raped. The story as told in this video is seriously wrong* both as to the facts and as to the law, as I and several others have explained in comments to it

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

@michaelhirst4191 For the last 11 days, I did not find your comments directly under the video, didn't check comments under other comments.

Do you have a blog post that collects your comments under the video?

* It seems to match this paragraph from The Guardian:

Sentencing her at Cambridge crown court in 2019, Judge Farrell QC told Ogonowska that Jaskiewicz “undoubtedly touched you sexually and was violent to you shortly before he was killed”. But he said it did not qualify as self-defence because Ogonowska, who he accepted suffered from some mental disability and had experienced previous trauma, had taken a knife to the scene.

UK woman loses jail term appeal after killing man as he sexually assaulted her
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent | Fri 9 May 2025 17.56 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/09/uk-woman-loses-jail-term-appeal-after-killing-man-as-he-sexually-assaulted-her