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The Weekend Read: ‘The first victim’

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Reporting on Sexual Violence

My professional and personal awareness of sexual lence are the reasons i never would in court. Copies of a story i had written were handed out to the 12 jury members. The defence barrister suggested it was my job to report on sexual assault. In his closing address, the crown prosecutor asked what the relevance of writing this article had in my own case. He said there seemed to be some expectation that i should act differently when it came to reporting a crime to police.

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