Are some women not believed when they say they've been raped?
Rape campaigners believe that the police are dropping too many rape cases before they have been properly investigated. One study suggests that eighty per cent of reported rapes do not reach the Crown Prosecution Service, because either the police or the victim decides not to go ahead with the case. Some campaigners are concerned that the police are increasingly charging women who report rape with wasting police time or perverting the course of justice, because officers do not accept that a rape has been committed.
Jenni talks to "Simona", who told the police that she had been gang raped by three men, but, was later arrested herself by the police for perverting the course of justice. Jenni also speaks to Simona’s solicitor Harriet Wistrich and to David Gee, rape advisor for the Association of Chief Police Officers.
