Monday, July 07, 2008

Postcode lottery of rape conviction / Sunday Times 6 July 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4276214.ece
Marie Woolf
"Campaigners blame inherent faults in the criminal justice system. They say in some cases police fail to take rape victims seriously. A quarter of reported rapes in the UK are not treated as a crime and are never pursued."
Statistics: PDF - http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/rape.pdf