Office for National Statistics data shows that 83 per cent of rapes go unreported, with 38 per cent of survivors saying they didn’t think the police would help them.
Police officers deemed to pose a risk to the public cannot be sacked according to a High Court ruling branded ‘absurd’ by Met chief Sir Mark Rowley (Metro, Wed).
Fewer than three per cent of rapes recorded by police in the year from October 2023 resulted in someone being charged, let alone convicted.
And for anyone who thinks ‘peeping’ is a minor crime, may I remind you that Gisèle Pelicot’s husband (who repeatedly drugged his wife so multiple men could rape her) was initially arrested for upskirting.
It appears French police take sexual offenders more seriously than our forces do.
