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Should rape suspects be named before charge?

Should rape suspects be named before charge?

A commentator says yes. Courts say no

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Joshua Rozenberg
Aug 16, 2020
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Don’t voters have the right to know the name of a Conservative MP accused of rape, asks Tim Shipman in an opinion column for today’s Sunday Times.

A news story in the same edition tells us that the MP will be free to return to the Commons next month. “His bail to return on a date has been extended to early November 2020,” the Metropolitan Police are quot…

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