Thousands of rape and murder victims being ‘denied swift justice’ due to coronavirus lockdown

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Labour says government should apologise for ‘wholly avoidable’ delays

Jury trials were put on hold for two months on 23 March and by the start of June the number of outstanding cases in crown courts stood at nearly 41,000.Sir Bon Neill, Tory chairman of the Justice Select Committee, called for extra funding to allow all courts to sit at maximum capacity “for as long as it takes” to get the backlog down.

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