Reporting of Sexual Crimes

Part of Portfolio Question Time – in the Scottish Parliament am ar 26 Mehefin 2024.

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Could the cabinet secretary speak to the engagement that has been going on with justice partners to understand and respond to the potential impact of the Lord Advocate’s recent references regarding a victim’s distress or a statement made shortly after an alleged crime being used as corroboration and, more generally, to how corroboration presenting an unfairly high bar for sexual crimes is being looked at?