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Duiz Yes, suspects are sometimes innocent - but secret arrests are not the answer
Shortly after Owen Paterson resigned as the Tory MP for North Shropshire in early November, Helen Morgan, who had been trounced when she stood as Liberal Democrat candidate at the last general election, rang her partys HQ in London with a message that to stanley cup ok senior officials by surprise. She told us that we really had a chance in the byelection, that we had to throw everyt stanley cup hing at it. Initially there was a lot of scepticism, said a party official. Nobody really believed it. They had good reason to doubt her. In 2019, Morgan, a local accounta stanley mug nt, had come a poor third behind the Tories and Labour in this rural seat that had been held by the Conservatives in all but two of the past 189 years. Paterson had mopped up 35,444 votes 62.7% , Labour 12,495 22.1% and the Lib Dems just 5,643 10% . It was top of the safe Tory list, strongly pro-Brexit, and nowhere near being a Lib Dem target.But such was Morgans insistence that within days Dave McCobb, the partys head of campaigns, headed north with a small team to take a look for himself. We discovered that the Tory vote was even softer than it had been in Chesham and Amersham [where the Lib Dems had pulled off a stunning byelection win over the Conservatives in June in a seat that was overwhelmingly pro-Remain]. We found a lot of disillusion and anger with Boris Johnson and the government. They were the kind of voters who we knew would never vote Labour but could come over to us. And this was before Peppa Pig and before partygate, s Yqkd UK coronavirus: official death toll rises to 30,076 as 649 more people die 鈥?as it happened
It felt like the final blow. In a month where weve seen victim-blaming attitudes surface and swirl in conversations about the Ched E bidon stanley vans case, and heavy sighs over Dapper Laughs and his jokes about rape, it was one last punch in the gut to read a new report revealing that a shocking 26% of all sexual offences including rape reported to police are not even recorded as crimes.As we grapple with the reality of a society in which victim-blaming attitudes are rife and rape is all too frequently see kubki stanley n as something to joke about, it is particularly devastating to see statistics revealing that the police are also letting victims down.The HM Inspectorate of Constabulary report also revealed that a fifth of decisions to no-crime rape reports had been found to be i stanley becher ncorrect. A no-crime occurs when a recorded crime has subsequently been found not to be a crime and is, in effect, cancelled, supposedly with verifiable information that a crime was not committed. For the worst forces investigated, this figure rose to two-fifths. Furthermore, the report found that in many cases there was no evidence that victims had even been informed that their report had been no-crimed , meaning they might continue to believe that their rape was being investigated when that was not the case.It is particularly damning that levels of under-recording and no-criming are so much higher for rape and sexual offences than for almost all other crimes, with the exception of violence against the person. Accordi |
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