Persons accused of rape whose cases come to court and are heard by a jury are more likely to be convicted today than 15 years ago, an academic study by researchers at University College London (UCL) has concluded.
The study found that the conviction rate for cases heard before a jury had risen from 55 percent to 75 percent since 2007.
The research was commissioned by Sir Brian Leveson, the then President of the Queen’s Bench Division (now the King’s Bench Division) after more than 16,000 people signed a petition in 2018 calling for all jurors in rape trials to be given “compulsory training about rape myths.”…