The BBC's Michael Buerk needs to apologise to victims of rape!

Ched Evans' victim was drunk and deserves no credit, says BBC's Michael Buerk

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The BBC has apologised after presenter Michael Buerk claimed the victim in the Ched Evans rape case emerged with no credit because she was "so drunk she could barely stand".
Buerk made his comments in a trailer for BBC Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze.
He did not say that Evans had raped his victim, only that he "had sex with her" in sordid circumstances.
Evans, a former Sheffield United player, was released from prison last week after serving half of a five-year sentence for raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel. The girl had been drinking before one of Evans's friends picked her up and took her back to the hotel.
In the trailer, broadcast during Radio 4's Today programme, Buerk said: "Nobody comes out of the Ched Evans rape case with any credit - not the victim who'd drunk so much she could barely stand, nor the two footballers who had sex with her in the most sordid of circumstances.
"The jury convicted only one of rape and now, after serving half his five-year sentence, ashamed but unrepentant, Ched Evans has been released and there is talk of a £500,000 contract to return to his club, Sheffield United.
"But the internet is aflame. The victim, hiding like an IRA informer in official anonymity, is being hounded by internet trolls.
"So is Evans's girlfriend, abused as a gold-digger for standing by him. 150,000 have signed an online petition calling for the club not to have him back, but the fans chant 'Super Ched Evans' at home games - a very modern moral mess.
"Difficult, incendiary questions about consent, remorse, atonement, the heightened moral responsibility of public figures, but it all boils down to one question: should Ched Evans play again for the Blades?"
_{Ched Evans's girlfriend, Natasha Massey, has been criticised for standing by him}
A BBC spokesman apologised for the wording used by Buerk. The corporation has received nine complaints from listeners so far.
"There was no intention to suggest that the victim was in any way at fault, and we apologise if the way this live trail was phrased suggested this," the spokesman said.
"Tonight's Moral Maze will ask whether a convicted rapist who maintains his innocence should be entitled to get his job back."
Buerk is the latest presenter to wade into the controversy over Evans's release.
Judy Finnigan caused outrage when she also said the victim had "had far too much to drink", and that "the rape was not violent".