Only 1.5% of rapes recorded by police in England and Wales were prosecuted in 2019
In a separate case, a gay woman who said she was raped by a man was accused of “engaging with the defendant” before the attack. Charges against a suspect, who was caught on CCTV, were dropped.Rape Crisis is among the signatories of a letter to the justice secretary, Robert Buckland, amid an “end-to-end-review” of how rape cases are handled in the criminal justice system.The High Court’s refusal of permission for judicial review over plummeting prosecutions is currently being appealed.
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