内容摘要：Mr Reiz said: "There is no psychiatric evidence before the court that could suggest that a mental disorder contributed to the defendant's actions.

Mr Reiz said: "There is no psychiatric evidence before the court that could suggest that a mental disorder contributed to the defendant's actions.

"I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show,” he said.“I can only believe they were done so on purpose. It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent.”

He continued: “It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths several steps backward - back through time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma differently than women."Those awful lies have been disrupted and exposed by countless brave victims over the last two decades who have broken through their personal shame and bravely spoken out.”"I think it’s interesting that he’s issued a statement without having seen the show.

He acknowledged: "It's really hard, if it's your life, to see your life up on screen."The thing I find interesting, that he doesn't mention in his quote, is that if you watch the show, I would say 60-65% of our show centre around the abuse, and what they claim happened to them.

"We do it very carefully and we give them their day in court, and they talk openly about it."

But, Murphy added, he and his team felt it was important to also show things from the parents' point of view."But with recent changes to national insurance contributions on top of general inflationary pressures, the losses on these services have become unsustainable," he said.

The firm had been in discussions with McGuinness's team over a subsidy for the services but had been unable to find a solution, leaving Stagecoach with "no option," Mr Walker said.McGuinness has previously pledged to bring the North East's bus network back under public control for the first time since the 1980s.

However, this could take years to finalise.The Mayor said: "Cuts to services like this show that the current bus system is broken.