Charging women who retract domestic violence or rape allegations
This week we’re responding to a consultation by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on charging women who retract allegations of domestic violence or rape with perversion of the course of justice. There are no statistics on how many people in the UK falsely report rape or domestic violence each year. When Baroness Stern released her review of rape reporting last March, she highlighted the lack of accurate data on false rape allegations as a concern. The Telegraph, in the...