Basically we have had so much under funding of our criminal justice system. It’s unreal so much so that The number of rape victims in England and Wales abandoning their cases rose by 40% in the first six months of this year, amid the growing courts backlog.
thats 147 wow
Crown Court staff were ordered in October to cancel 404 sitting days across the rest of the financial year, which would have been presided over by part-time judges.
It's prompted fears that hundreds more victims of crime will face delays.
Chair of the Criminal Bar Association, Mary Prior KC, told LBC "many" of the cases being adjourned concern violence towards women, and coercive and controlling behaviour.
"These are real people who just can't wait anymore, they simply don't have anything left to give. People are saying had they known what they would face, they simply wouldn't have rung the police in the first place", she said.
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “The new Government increased the number of Crown Court sitting days to a total of 106,500 – more than in six out of the last seven years.
“While we are bound by a challenging financial inheritance, this Government is committed to bearing down on the Crown Court backlog. On top of increasing sitting days, we are extending magistrates’ court sentencing powers from six to 12 months, freeing up to 2,000 days in the Crown Courts to handle the most serious cases, and recruiting more judges.”
isn’t it bad that our systems in this country are in such a bloody mess and yet we have people actively gaslighting us telling us that no the last party did not cause any problems and no I don’t think labour might be able to solve all this in five years, but how do we get this sorted? How do we get more money because people don’t want to pay more tax?
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/rape-cases-uk-victims-courts-crime/