Protests erupted outside the court after a gang was jailed for sexual abuse instead of rape VINCENT WEST/REUTERSProtesters demonstrated across Spain last night after five men were cleared of raping an 18-year-old woman at the running of the bulls festival in Pamplona and convicted of a lesser offence. The men, aged 27 to 29, attacked her in the lobby of a building in 2016 and shared video of the abuse on a WhatsApp group called “the wolf pack”. The prosecution said that she had been too terrified to resist and sought rape convictions with a 22-year sentence. Yesterday Judge José Francisco Cobo ruled that there was no evidence of the violence or intimidation that would have defined the attack as rape. José Angel Prenda, Alfonso Jesús Cabezuelo, Ángel Boza, Jesús Escudero and Antonio Manuel Guerrero,…

Source: The Times April 26, 2018 16:11 UTC