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21 December 2017

Met police to review all live rape cases as second trial collapses

An MP who was cleared of rape has called for a nationwide review of the police disclosure of evidence in sexual abuse investigations. Nigel Evans said evidence was being cherry-picked in “too many cases” after Britain’s biggest police force ordered a review of all current rape and sexual abuse cases yesterday. The Tory MP, who was cleared in 2014 of raping a student, called for the review to be expanded after a second rape case collapsed within a week.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/met-police-to-review-all-live-rape-cases-as-second-trial-collapses-tm92z035t