Thanks for the clarification, Christopher; I fear I was going on memory.
It's still a disgraceful figure.
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On 30/3/06 8:40 AM, "Christopher Walker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> <snip>
> Maybe if we can get rape convictions up above a world average of 2.7 per
> cent (less than 1 per cent in Britain) a result [AC]
> <snip>
>
> The UK conviction rate is nothing to be proud of: it is a fraction of that
> achieved for other forms of attack However, <1% sounds wrong. It was
> roughly 5.5% in 2005 and the last Amnesty/Rape Crisis report I saw (this
> year) quoted a broad brush rate of 5%.
>
> It is, of course, the consensus that many rapes go unreported. According to
> Vera Baird, a lawyer and an MP, 9% of complaints now result in conviction
> (March 2006, though I don't know where she gets this figure from) against
> 25% in 1985, when reporting rates were much lower.
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