MPs demand prosecutors reverse 'covert change' causing plummeting rape charges
Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy MPs are calling on authorities to reverse a “covert change in policy” on rape cases amid plummeting prosecutions. “The government is neglecting people across this country by failing to guarantee the right to justice and support after sexual violence has taken place.” The MPs, from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Green Party, said that a legal challenge launched against the Crown Prosecution Service accused it of a “covert change in policy” that caused charges to plummet. open image in gallery Protesters dumped documents representing rape victims’ phone data outside the CPS’s offices in November But police and crime commissioners called for the documents to be withdrawn the following month, amid warnings that the “traumatising” intrusion might stop victims reporting sexual assault and abuse. The Centre for Women’s Justice and End Violence Against Women coalition have launched a legal challenge over the “catastrophic drop in rape prosecutions” that accuses the CPS of secretly changing their policy and practice.
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