Steady progress on rape
But why fetter the courts?
The Ministry of Justice says it is on track to restore the number of adults charged with rape to levels last seen in 2016. It has already achieved this ambition for the number of adult rape cases referred by the police to prosecutors and for the number of cases sent by prosecutors to the court. Convictions have also increased.
There was a drastic drop in…
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