Woman paid £35,000 over CPS’s decision to drop rape case after ‘sexsomnia’ claim

Jade McCrossen-Nethercott said the CPS had ‘taken me to the darkest points of my life’. Photograph: Handout

A woman has been awarded £35,000 in compensation from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after her rape case was dropped over claims that she could have had an episode of a rare sleep condition called sexsomnia.

Jade Blue McCrossen-Nethercott, 32, contacted police in 2017, when she was 24, after waking up to discover she was half-naked, and with the sense that she had been raped while she slept.