People who have suffered horrific sex attacks are being told they must hand over their mobile phones to police or risk prosecutions against their attackers not going ahead.
Max Hill, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said digital devices will only be looked at when it forms a ‘reasonable line of enquiry’ and only ‘relevant’ material will go before a court if it meets ‘hard and fast’ rules.He said: ‘If there’s material on a device, let’s say a mobile phone, which forms a reasonable line of enquiry, but doesn’t undermine the prosecution case and doesn’t support any known defence case, then it won’t be disclosed.
Liam Allan, then 22, had charges of rape and serious sexual assault against him dropped when critical material emerged The forms state: ‘Mobile phones and other digital devices such as laptop computers, tablets and smart watches can provide important relevant information and help us investigate what happened.
He added: ‘People who have been victimised and subjected to serious sexual assaults, for example, that’s an awful thing to happen to them and you don’t wish to make it worse by making their lives really difficult.
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