The State - News from Aug. 12, 1985

A 58-year-old businessman convicted of raping an 18-year-old immigrant will get a a new hearing the day before his six-year sentence is to start because the woman now says she lied about the incident. San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Thomas McGinn Smith ordered the district attorney’s office to show at a hearing Sept. 11 why John Veasey should not get a new trial. The real estate broker was convicted of raping a woman in October, 1980, two days after he had hired her as his live-in maid in Burlingame. But the victim, a recent arrival from Tonga at the time of the incident, filed an affidavit July 30 saying she had consented to have sex with him and that language problems were partly to blame for her erroneous charges.