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Police take ‘no further action’ in more than half of rape reports

Revealed: Majority of rape allegations in England and Wales are closed due to lack of ‘evidence’ or ‘public interest’

By Sian Norris
Police take ‘no further action’ in more than half of rape reports
Police on patrol in southern England | Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images
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TRIGGER WARNING - DESCRIPTION OF MEDICAL SEXUAL ASSAULT

“I have lived 53 years without being sexually assaulted, and then it happens to me in a hospital, in a place where I am supposed to be safe.” Diana* paused. “But in the end, I feel more traumatised by the police than by the assault. Which is ridiculous. Everything they did, they did wrong.”

Diana told openDemocracy how a consultant sexually assaulted her twice by inserting a medical instrument into her vagina just before she underwent a routine procedure that did not involve any sort of vaginal examination.

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