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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Helen Pidd

Judge apologises to sexual assault victim ‘greatly let down’ by English court system

Cambridge crown court
The sentencing at Cambridge crown court was adjourned for a third time after Blade Silvano was not produced, and a pre-sentence report was still not ready. Photograph: Andrew Michael/Alamy

A judge has apologised to a victim of sexual assault who was “greatly let down by the failures of the system” after her abuser failed to come to court to be sentenced due to problems finding wheelchair-accessible prison transport.

The woman, who cannot be named, was sexually assaulted by a woman pretending to be a man in 2016 and 2017, whom she had met on a dating site.

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