The First Minister said: “I quote them that many survivors described the process of going to court more traumatic than the rape itself. That is an unacceptable position in any justice system.
The First Minister agreed that performance against the 62-day target “must be improved”, accepting that while this had been “impacted and affected by the pandemic” there were “challenges around the 62-day target pre-pandemic too”.
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