UK Rape Survivors Face ‘Digital Strip Searches’ and Other Deterrents to Justice

New Home Office data has revealed that a mere 1.5 percent of rapes reported to police in England and Wales led to a charge or summons between April 2018 and March 2019, down from nearly 14 percent three years earlier. And an analysis released July 31 of rapes reported in London in April 2016 found that 6 percent made it to trial and only 3 percent resulted in conviction. This is despite a dramatic increase in the number of rape allegations reported to police during the same period. The Home Office links the low likelihood that authorities will pursue legal action for sexual violence to the “greater…

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