Crime: Rape
Lord Campbell-Savours asked Her Majesty’s Government:
To what extent DNA and other forms of personal identification could be retained and of assistance in the identification of false accusers in rape investigations.
during the course of the question:
Lord Faulkner of Worcester:
My Lords, did my noble and learned friend read the report in last Thursday’s Guardian, in which it was said,
“Research published yesterday by the Crown Prosecution Service ... and Home Office Inspectorates estimates that of the 50,000 rapes thought to occur each year, between 75% and 95% are never reported. And almost a third of reported cases recorded by police as ‘no crime’ should have been properly investigated as rape”?
Are those not the real concerns that we should have about the problems of rape, and do they not rather overwhelm the sort of statistic that my noble friend Lord Campbell-Savours continues to bring back to this House?
© Lords Hansard 6 February 2007
To what extent DNA and other forms of personal identification could be retained and of assistance in the identification of false accusers in rape investigations.
during the course of the question:
Lord Faulkner of Worcester:
My Lords, did my noble and learned friend read the report in last Thursday’s Guardian, in which it was said,
“Research published yesterday by the Crown Prosecution Service ... and Home Office Inspectorates estimates that of the 50,000 rapes thought to occur each year, between 75% and 95% are never reported. And almost a third of reported cases recorded by police as ‘no crime’ should have been properly investigated as rape”?
Are those not the real concerns that we should have about the problems of rape, and do they not rather overwhelm the sort of statistic that my noble friend Lord Campbell-Savours continues to bring back to this House?
© Lords Hansard 6 February 2007