THE Scottish Government has said it will “carefully consider” a report that gave a damning indictment of police practices in relation to sex crimes committed against women in England and Wales.

The Angiolini Inquiry, set up in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard, found that too many perpetrators in England and Wales are slipping through the cracks and that prevention schemes are often “just words”.

In the latest report from the inquiry, looking at sex crimes against women in public places, Lady Elish Angiolini found that data on these offences is “difficult to obtain, patchy and incomplete”.

She also found that around a quarter, 26 percent, of police forces in England and Wales have no specialist policy for investigating sexual offences, including non-contact crimes such as indecent

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