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Sexual assault survivors suffer ‘devastating’ crown courts backlog impact, report finds
A woman showing signs of depression as rape and sexual abuse victims are suffering from the ‘disastrous impact’ of an increasing backlog in the crown courts, according to a new report
RAPE and sexual abuse victims are suffering from the “disastrous impact” of an increasing backlog in the crown courts, a damning report revealed today.
The charity Rape Crisis England and Wales said that its Breaking Point report outlines how a crisis in the crown courts has led to a record high logjam of 7,859 sexual offence cases and 1,851 adult rape cases.
Its freedom of information request to HM Courts and Tribunal Service revealed that the number of vacated and ineffective, “therefore delayed,” rape trials more than doubled from 2019-2020 to 2021-2022.
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