Is still defying Brexit Predictions but for how long . A warning about dementia why living near major Roads Letters from a princess to palace steward dianas handwritten notes are sold at auction. Coming up in the sport on bbc news, hull city appoint former olympiakos boss marco silva as their new manager. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Jill saward, the first survivor of rape to waive her right to anonymity, has died. She was 51. In 1986 she suffered a violent assault by two men during a burglary at her fathers vicarage in west london. At the end of the trial of the rapists, thejudge said her trauma had not been so great. Jill saward went on to become a tireless campaigner and many believe her efforts changed the way we now deal with sex crime and its victims. Our Home Affairs Correspondent june kelly looks back at her life. Jill sawa rd jill saward was 21 when, in 1986, she became the victim of a crime which caused revulsion across the country. There was horror that,
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nbc bay area s investigative unit reviewed records for rape and sexual battery cases from the san mateo sheriff s office dating back to 2018. through public records request, we obtained information on 60 cases and cross referenced their original charges with the final outcome. we found 32% of the cases were either rejected by the da s office or later dismissed; 11% are ongoing; and about half, only 57%, were resolved. of the 31 cases where the da charged the defendant with a sex crime, 19 resulted in a sex crime conviction; four were convicted of a sex crime by jury; but in eight cases, 26% of the time, the defendant negotiated a non-sex related plea deal. shin-mee: sometimes the facts or the witness statements change after we file the case, and if our case is weaker than we originally assessed it to be, then we are going to enter into negotiations with defense. hilda: but a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of
is shattered. investigative reporter hilda gutierrez looks at how often defendants charged with certain sex crimes take plea deals. hilda gutierrez: this was originally brought as a rape case that police say included a videotaped confession and an apology note by the defendant, so the victim wonders why prosecutors offered him a deal that leaves him with no sex crime on his record, and says she was not consulted. hilda: carrie banks grew up believing in the justice system. she comes from a law enforcement family. her father and uncle worked for the belmont police department. carrie: and i grew up knowing that if you did wrong, you d get in trouble, and the police would help you, and the police did. hilda: but she says her trust was shattered when she was raped. carrie: but i knew, like, the process would work, at least i thought. hilda: it was the summer of 2021. banks, a mother of two, was at a local piano bar in san carlos, where she recalls talking to an acquaintance she had met the