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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Martin Bentham

Rape victims set to be spared trawls of social media by police

Rape victims should not have to face police trawls of their social media accounts or checks on how drunk they were, police were told today - as the Government admitted it was not “job done” despite more suspected rapists being prosecuted.

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said more rapists were also being jailed and serving longer sentences than in 2010, as he hailed an increase in the number of “people being punished, convicted and disgraced” for the “appalling” crimes they had carried out.

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