I would weave the bravery of women...

Maybe I lied, maybe I'm kind of out of words at this point (although I do want to know if John Dewar will get an extra ten years for being part of a group that carried out organised crime).

It's such a small victory - after all it's not the crime but the cover-up. But the jury believed Louise Nicholas. This is vindication and it reinforces that if John Dewar had investigated properly, then things might have happened differently.

The verdict isn't just about this case. Over the last 18 months I've heard the stories of many women who had been raped by the police. A friend rang me tonight and told me about a conversation she'd had with Janie, a woman she knew. Janie had been raped by a police officer at about the same time as Louise Nicholas. Janie said that this verdict felt like vindication for her.

More later...