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Magistrates now had far less work and the crown court was heavily burdened by sexual offences cases.

"The minister of justice, Jeff Radebe, recently announced that sexual offences courts would be relaunched to help cut the backlogs of sexual offences cases".

Robert Colover, the barrister, has been suspended by the Crown Prosecution Service from covering sexual offences cases after he told a court earlier this week: "The girl is predatory in all her actions and she is sexually experienced".

The new law will also outline the role public officials and police should play in investigating and prosecuting cases, in addition to criminalising the obstruction of justice, protecting the identity of injured parties and witnesses, and – in a major shift for Somalia's clan-based society – prohibiting the out-of-court settlement of sexual offences cases.

Sunderland's mishandling of their former winger's child-sex offences case has cost them a chief executive in Margaret Byrne – who was forced to resign – and a whole lot of goodwill, but the decision not to suspend Johnson until his case came to court did not happen on Allardyce's watch.

Mr Grieve said tweets by a juror had caused one sexual offences case to collapse, costing £300,000 and "requiring all the witnesses to go through the process all over again".

Attempting to show a pattern of offending is neither new and nor restricted to sexual offence cases, the CPS said.

Parliament agrees, as it has set no time limit on bringing rape and sexual offence cases, as it has for other offences.

"This case has highlighted serious concerns over how the police and the Crown Prosecution Service bring sexual offence cases to court," he said.

Colover has been suspended from prosecuting sexual offence cases pending a review by the Crown Prosecution Service, while Peters's comments are to be investigated by the Office for Judicial Complaints.

Jack Straw, the former Labour home secretary, also suggested the DPP might be more cautious in bringing more high-profile sex offence cases in future.