Closing the gap on rape prosecutions

The director of public prosecutions, Max Hill, dismisses suggestions that the CPS is too cautious in its approach to rape cases. There is no truth in the suggestion that the Crown Prosecution Service is taking a risk-averse approach to prosecuting rape ( Senior police officer raises concerns over CPS’s ‘risk-averse’ approach to rape, 14 September). In my meeting with Sarah Crew, the deputy chief constable of Avon and Somerset police, I warned against exactly that, stressing tha