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Victims’ false expectations

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Victims of crime and their families have been led to believe that their role in the criminal justice system is greater than it is in reality, the chief inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said yesterday.

Anthony Rogers told me that the “narrative of putting victims at the heart of the criminal justice system is leading to false expectations”.

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