I have been pondering since the discussions about anonymity for rape defendants and there is one thing I am unclear about.
In the case of John Warboys, the taxi driver rapist. Did he stand trial in all the cases separately or was there a collective trial where all the charges were brought together?
If the police ask for other victims to come forward to support a prosecution are they coming forward to stand as corroborating witnesses or is their allegation taken into consideration in some other way?
I hope someone can help me make sense of this as I have been told a case must be made on an individual basis, but I seem to remember cases where the charges were against serial rapists and there was no indication of separate trials for each victim. Another one that comes to mind is the recent Rochdale gang.