Prosecutors urged to ditch 'weak' rape cases to improve figures

The Crown Prosecution Service says it is ‘completely untrue’ to say the advice at its workshops signalled a change of approach to rape cases.Prosecutors in England and Wales have been urged to take a more risk-averse approach in rape cases to help stem widespread criticism of the service’s low conviction rates, the Guardian can reveal.The controversial advice to take a proportion of “weak cases out of the system” has been given to specialist rape prosecutors in trai