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How do I stop pressing charges
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How to I stop pressing charges
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If the Police are involved you should attend the Police Station and make a retraction statement giving your reasons.
Nowadays however it is the Crown Prosecution Service who will decide whether or not they will continue with the prosecution and if necessary they will summons you to court to give evidence whether you want to or not so it may be an idea to try and talk to them first if it is at the stage where they are involved.
Nowadays however it is the Crown Prosecution Service who will decide whether or not they will continue with the prosecution and if necessary they will summons you to court to give evidence whether you want to or not so it may be an idea to try and talk to them first if it is at the stage where they are involved.
i'm not answering for Rojash, but i presume he means it's not in the victims gift whether to carry on with a prosecution or not. If for example the CPS says there is not enough evidence to carry on to trial with a likelihood of success, nothing the victim says or does can change that can it? just like if the victim has (for example) been murdered, they are not around to press charges, but a prosecution still goes ahead. court cases are not bednobs Vs the bad guys, they are the crown Vs the bad guys. If you know different, perhaps you could tell me because i'd hate to be giving out the wrong info
Sorry Bednobs, I dont fully understand your post.
Rojash, "It's never been an option in the UK for the victim to choose NOT to press charges, once a crime has been reported".
Lets take Domestic violence cases for example, CPS Policy for Prosecuting Cases of Domestic Violence includes policy and guidance for police when the victim chooses to withdraw support for the prosecution (Code 5.9).
If I walked into a police station and wished to report that I had been assaulted I can choose not to press charges etc.
Rojash, "It's never been an option in the UK for the victim to choose NOT to press charges, once a crime has been reported".
Lets take Domestic violence cases for example, CPS Policy for Prosecuting Cases of Domestic Violence includes policy and guidance for police when the victim chooses to withdraw support for the prosecution (Code 5.9).
If I walked into a police station and wished to report that I had been assaulted I can choose not to press charges etc.
You can certainly give the police/CPS an indication of your willingless or otherwise to support a prosecution (and a phrase to this effect is usually made at the bottom of a witness statement). However, the decision to proceed or otherwise (and how to treat you if you are or become a reluctant witness) is almost always within the sole gift of the CPS. It is not the victim or any other witnesses who "press charges". Prosecutions in England and Wales are brought by the CPS.
It is my understanding that in the olden days, DV victims could ask not to press charges. So many cases werebeing dropped that the toing and froing and wasting police and CPS time, the manipulation of the DV victims, their fears, or the relationship being back on etc caused new legislation which said that DV prosecutions could still go ahead by the CPS wether or not the victim wanted them to. Therefore taking it out of the victims hands. I'm no expert, but that is what I thought was in effect these days. My sister tried to save her abusive ex when they got back together again, but the CPS continued anyway, and he went to jail.