We don't need to look at this particularly carefully to understand why our justice system isn't working for victims. Between 2010 and 2016, a third of the Ministry of Justice budget was cut. This was the department hit second worst after the Department for Work and Pensions. The budgets of courts were cut; the number of courts were cut from 330 to 150. Now, the impact of that, of course, is bound to have worked its way through the whole justice system, from the CPS and the way that they deal with cases, to delays in courts, to litigants being forced to represent themselves. The support and services available to victims and survivors is also eroded. If you're a victim of sexual violence seeking counselling then you are likely to be told, in making that request, that the waiting list in your sexual violence crisis centre will have closed because of a lack of funding. As a result, mental and emotional health is sure to decline.

Now, the rape crisis centre in north Wales is the only rape crisis service across the six north Wales services providing specialist counselling for all victims, and this what their director, Jane Ruth, said: