Tuesday, January 30, 2007  Rape and the police  The Independent
this sunday ran a big feature on the continuing failure of
police in the UK to get convictions in rape cases. The numbers
are worse than ever and a chilling case study descibes how one
woman was mistreated, not believed and discouraged from going to
trial, then humiliated in the trial and the defendant, who had
previous convictions, and in spite of eye witnesses and stacks
of evidence, set free to rape again (which he did withing weeks
of the trial).  And is it any surprise the rates of conviction
are so low when the police are in fact commiting rape
themselves. I refer of course to a certain Greg Jones. Senior
Welsh police officer. Now here's the evidence: he went out
drinking with a mate and they met two women and went back to one
of their houses with them - as far as the victim was concerned,
this was to "carry on partying". Now Greg wasn't planning to
stay long at the mate's house because of course he needed to go
home to his girlfriend. Befo