Rape victims are waiting an average of 622 days to see justice
Rape victims are waiting an average of 622 days to see justice as they are warned no one is available to prosecute their case due to shortage of lawyers A woman pulled out after waiting 'longer than WWII in Europe' to give evidence Boris Johnson admitted too many women are waiting for cases to be heard Rape victims are being told there is no one available to prosecute their case
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Rape victims are facing a ‘perfect storm’ of years of delays and a shortage of lawyers to prosecute their attackers.
In one recent case, a woman pulled out of a prosecution after waiting six years to give evidence, with the prosecutor saying the case had taken ‘longer than the entire Second World War in Europe’.
Boris Johnson has admitted that too many women are waiting for their cases to be heard due to worsening court backlogs.
Ministry of Justice figures showed that in the second quarter of this year, the average time between a crime taking place and a court case being resolved was 622 days – up from 368 a year earlier
Now it has emerged that rape victims are being told there is no one available to prosecute their case due to a
