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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]
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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.
CW
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