If this is even slightly true (it’s not) then why have so many women’s charities come out to condemn scrapping the Human Rights Act?
Believing that the Human Rights Act is just “something criminals hide behind” shows a worrying lack of understanding. Just have a read below to see who it protects:
“The Court’s unanimous ruling is also a powerful affirmation of the importance of the UK Human Rights Act (HRA). For years, some tabloids and UK politicians have grotesquely misrepresented the Act, describing it as “a charter for terrorists and criminals.” Theresa May has even suggested it should be scrapped. But these claims are false and her proposal would undermine the rights of everyone living in the UK.
The act has brought countless benefits to ordinary people in the UK, including in some high-profile cases. For example, the HRA played a pivotal role in securing justice for families of the 1989 Hillsborough stadium football disaster, when 96 fans were crushed to death. Without the Act, South Yorkshire Police’s gross negligence behind the deaths would almost certainly never have been uncovered.
And the HRA has now allowed [John] Worboys’ victims to hold police responsible for their failure to properly investigate when the women first filed complaints. The case against the Metropolitan Police was brought by two rape victims, who reported their attacks back in 2003 and 2007. But their concerns were treated dismissively and no action was taken. Worboys went on to rape and assault women many more times, until he was finally convicted in 2009. The Met have said that Worboys may have committed up to 100 rapes in London between 2002 and 2008.”
www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/23/uks-black-cab-rapist-ruling-shows-importance-human-rights-act