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<p>Rape and serious sexual offences are devastating crimes that have a profound impact
on victims, and are some of the most challenging and complex cases that the CPS deals
with. Where evidence submitted by the Police is sufficient to bring charges, the CPS
will not hesitate to prosecute these horrific crimes.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS maintains
a central record to show the overall number of charging decisions where a decision
has been made to take No Further Action in cases recorded as rape on the system. The
data is shown below broken down by financial year:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>In 2015-16,
31.5% of cases of suspected rape were not prosecuted due to evidential issues (2,162
cases)</p></li><li><p>In 2016-17, 31.2% of cases of suspected rape were not prosecuted
due to evidential issues (2,061 cases)</p></li><li><p>In 2017-18, 29.7% of cases of
suspected rape were not prosecuted due to evidential issues (1,786 cases)</p></li></ul>
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