Yvette Cooper warns 300 women are raped daily, slams Tories on charge rate

Yvette Cooper lambasted the Tories in an impassioned speech saying the charge rate - which has "dropped" - was "worse for sexual violence and domestic violence"< /p> Yvette Cooper vowed that a Labor government would "be very serious about getting justice for the victims" (

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Three hundred women will be raped today, but only 1% of those cases – just three – will make it to court, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has warned.

In an impassioned speech slamming the Tories for not getting the rape charges under control, the MP slammed the government, saying it had 'completely failed to put in place a proper system to get the detectives we need and that's why then you have victims who don't get justice”.

Ms Cooper said: 'The most shocking figure of all is that today around 300 women will probably have been raped. Of these, around 190 cases will be reported. 'a handful, maybe about three cases will make it to court.

"Over the last few years, the last six years in particular, the number of felons charged has dropped and the charge rate has dropped to just one in 20 recorded crimes charged.

"It's worse for serious sexual violence and also for domestic violence."

Speaking during a taping of The Political Party podcast, Ms Cooper blamed 12 years of Tory mismanagement as the reason for overstretched and unsupported police forces that have led to high death rates. historically low charge "whether for fraud, whether on domestic violence".

She told the podcast, which is set to host Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Sir Keir Starmer in the new year, 'victims are left behind'

She vowed that a Labor government would "be very serious about getting justice for the victims".