Sentence examples for rape complainants from inspiring English sources

"In the course of my research I have not found any country that pursues these cases against women rape complainants in the way the UK does.

AA says asylum seekers are still subject to the kind of questioning that would provoke outrage if it were police treating rape complainants in this way.

As Clare Dyer observes, in her story about complainants texting their attackers, most rape complainants drop out in the investigation stage.

There has long been concern that lawyers have tried to undermine the protections given to rape complainants in section 41, including by slipping past sexual behaviour into evidence via medical reports.

Importantly, in Finland, Sweden and Norway, rape complainants are also extended certain procedural rights which give them a much stronger legal position in relation to the criminal justice procedure.

The police weren't moved to start treating rape complainants better "because they are bleeding heart liberals", but because just trying to "trip up" a complainant or dismiss their story, is not the best way of eliciting credible evidence.

Evidence laws were reformed to limit cross-examination about a rape complainant's sexual history and reputation.

He denied making a comment about the rape complainant being rubbish in bed, saying to police "you don't make jokes about things like that".

The rape complainant said she went back to his home after they had seen each other at the Klute nightclub, where she later described herself as having been "crazy drunk".

OK, he occasionally lapsed into DCI-ese (" It's fair to say that I was on the receiving end of what can only be described as a heated exchange," he said of his final conversation with the rape complainant Jane).

The barrister suggested the rape complainant, who cannot be named, regretted having sex with the much older politician in his home in his Ribble Valley constituency in spring last year and invented the rape allegations to mask his shame.