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<p>The percentage of cases where prosecution offers no evidence because the victim
or witness no longer supports prosecution for theft, fraud, robbery and possession
of weapons offence can be found in the below table.</p><p>The table details the cases
in which the victim or witness no longer supports prosecution on the day of trial
(%) by selected offence group, England and Wales, 2014-2023 (data for 2023 covers
only the period from January to March, the latest available).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>All
offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Robbery</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Theft
offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Possession of weapons</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Fraud
offences</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td><td><p>3.1%</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td><td><p>3.8%</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1.8%</p></td><td><p>3.1%</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td><td><p>2.6%</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1.9%</p></td><td><p>3.4%</p></td><td><p>2.6%</p></td><td><p>2.9%</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td><td><p>3.8%</p></td><td><p>2.3%</p></td><td><p>3.2%</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>1.9%</p></td><td><p>3.3%</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td><td><p>3.2%</p></td><td><p>0.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>1.9%</p></td><td><p>2.8%</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td><td><p>3.0%</p></td><td><p>0.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td><td><p>2.5%</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td><td><p>2.5%</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td><td><p>3.1%</p></td><td><p>2.5%</p></td><td><p>1.8%</p></td><td><p>0.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>1.4%</p></td><td><p>3.0%</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td><td><p>1.4%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td><td><p>3.7%</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td><td><p>0.7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The
data presented covers trials which do not go ahead on the listed trial data as the
"prosecution offers no evidence because the witness/victim no longer supports
prosecution". This is measured as a proportion of all listed trials in that period,
excluding trial vacations.</p><p>The data is first published as part of the National
Statistics series ‘Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly’, latest data available to
March 2023. The data is only available from 2014 onwards.</p>
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