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The police have a pretty terrible reputation these days – sexism, violence, racism – and McDonald would go on to have first-hand experience. Time and again, she would complete an investigation only to be told by a CPS lawyer on the other end of the phone that there was “no realistic prospect of conviction”.

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He’d go to court and say things like, ‘Oh, but I’m going to miss my sister’s wedding,’ and the judge would let him go.Under a year later, thanks to a controversial new initiative, she was a detective in the London Metropolitan Police Service. Given that she could have held precious few memories of Anne Boleyn, it is often assumed that her mother exerted little influence over her. of police-recorded rapes in England and Wales leading to prosecution in 2020-21, many women’s worst nightmares must have been written off as “crap rapes”. The men in charge told her it wasn’t her “job to care” about what happened to the many women left without justice. But etched in her memory were her fellow women on the rape team all telling her the same thing: that they “wouldn’t report it” if they themselves were raped.