{"id":141713,"date":"2021-02-17T13:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=141713"},"modified":"2021-02-17T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:43:07","slug":"he-was-accused-of-rape-but-acquitted-then-he-committed-suicide-fearing-rapist-label-would-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-was-accused-of-rape-but-acquitted-then-he-committed-suicide-fearing-rapist-label-would-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"He Was Accused Of Rape But Acquitted. Then He Committed Suicide, Fearing \u2018Rapist\u2019 Label Would Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhe-was-accused-of-rape-but-acquitted-then-he-committed-suicide-fearing-rapist-label-would-stick%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=141713&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1182043746-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Grant Townsend, 26, was known around town in Starella Grove, west Hull in England, as a \u201cloveable rogue who always wore a smile,\u201d yet beneath that smile was a troubled mind.<\/p>\n<p>Townsend had suffered from mental health issues for much of his life, but those troubles were exacerbated in 2017 when he was falsely accused of rape. He was eventually acquitted, but his mother, Keely Gillbey, told investigators that he worried \u201cthe title of rapist would never go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hull Coroner\u2019s Court conducted an inquest into Townsend\u2019s death, determining that he committed suicide and citing his struggles to move on from the false rape allegations against him. Gillbey told investigators that after he was accused, Townsend \u201cfound it difficult to leave the house,\u201d but kept telling her he was fine and didn\u2019t need any kind of mental health support, the Daily Mail reported. Gillbey said she found a suicide note written by Townsend prior to his death that included a line where \u201che claimed his innocence,\u201d but that she never discussed the note with her son. She did, however, insist that he must have known she found the note when she threw out some pills she found in Townsend\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<p>After this incident, the Mail reported, Townsend found a girlfriend and moved in together. Gillbey said \u201cthey did have problems,\u201d and eventually broke up. Townsend struggled to find employment after the false allegations, which put a strain on the relationship. Townsend was kicked out of the home he shared with the woman and moved back in with his mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe day he came home he sobbed and he could barely go outside and was fed up with everything,\u201d Gillbey said, according to the Mail. She said after her son moved back in, she would find him crying in the kitchen. She said she knew he was really struggling with everything that had happened and that he was \u201ccrying himself to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The false allegations were merely the catalyst to what was reportedly a long history of traumatic incidents. Townsend was born in Kent, but his parent\u2019s divorce led to him and his mother moving to Hull, where he was \u201cbullied for his accent\u201d in high school and \u201cbegan hanging around with the wrong crowd,\u201d his mother told the Coroner\u2019s Court. She also said Townsend \u201cfound it difficult to understand and cope with knowing what his mum had been through,\u201d referring to abuse she had suffered in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Another blow came when Townsend\u2019s uncle died, Gillbey said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[L]osing his Uncle Grant, who he was named after, in a motorcycle accident 11 years ago \u2013 he took that really really hard and that\u2019s when I really did notice a decline in Grant,\u201d she told the court.<\/p>\n<p>His mental health became \u201cprogressively worse,\u201d however, after the false accusations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was found not guilty \u2013 it took them less than 10 minutes for all of them to come back with a not guilty verdict,\u201d his mother told the court, according to the Mail. \u201cBut it affected Grant in a big, big way, especially knowing what I had gone through as a child. To be accused of that affected him big time, it really did. I watched him deteriorate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gillbey came home to find Townsend had committed suicide on June 6, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a bit of a loveable rogue. To look at him, to meet him, you wouldn\u2019t know that anything was wrong,\u201d she said. \u201cHe always wore a smile when you\u2019d see him, he was always up for a laugh, loved being around his mates and his mates loved him being around them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Townsend, 26, was known around town in Starella Grove, west Hull in England, as a \u201cloveable rogue who always wore a smile,\u201d yet beneath that smile was a troubled &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181419,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1182043746-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"He Was Accused Of Rape But Acquitted. 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