The alleged rape was reported in 2017 but is yet to go to court. The justice system is "broken", she says.

A woman who says she was raped in 2017 has described the criminal justice system as “absolutely broken” after a series of problems and errors allowed the accused man to allegedly start stalking her.

Despite reporting the rape allegation to police the day after it happened, the case is not due to be tried in court until next May - eight years after the alleged assault.

In that time, delays and errors by police, mistakes by prosecutors and court backlogs have contributed to the woman having a mental breakdown.

“It’s shambolic, embarrassing, disgraceful and debilitating,” says the woman, who is legally entitled to anonymity. “I shouldn’t have felt abandoned and hopeless.”

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    UK police are utter garbage. Sure the government repeatedly cut funding and the pay is atrocious. But any interaction I have ever had has been worthless.

    Give statement, it goes in their little book and off they trot. Likely to the shredder.

    I know one policewoman, now detective, who works in an area with a higher level of “illegal immigration” (south coast area). She gleefully explained how she and her colleagues racially profile just in case they are illegal.

    “A brown man walking home from tesco in the evening? Better pull over and interrogate him on the side of the road.”

    Scum.