Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament

Rejected petition Protect the identity of sexual crime suspects until proven guilty.

All too often, innocent parties are accused of rape, paedophilia and other sexual crimes, only to be proven as innocent. However an allegation of such severity will have a detrimental effect to their reputation indefinitely

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/121317

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