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'The court of appeal ridicules itself by saying . . . that it is unlikely that a 20-year-old girl would go to bed with a man in his 40s,' said the convicted man, Billy Butt, a former record producer. The court upheld Butt's conviction for raping nine women, all of whom were in their 20s and late teens.
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