Very quickly, it was lawyers with experience in prosecution and defence, those responsible for the courts, law enforcement frustrated with cases that they have poured themselves into, only to have the result be a stay of proceedings without coming to their natural conclusion, and, importantly, victims who have actually lived through this experience. These are the people who have seen a crime committed against them go unpunished as a result of delays, not as a result of an accused person defeating the charges and receiving a verdict of not guilty.
We tried to understand the experience. I'm sure that you as an MP have probably seen, as I have, this injustice play out over the course of your career in politics. When you sit down with somebody who tells you they were assaulted sexually and that the perpetrator lives in their community and was charged but let go because the clock ran out, I can tell you that doesn't feel like justice to the victim. It doesn't feel like justice to me, and we need to take action.
