Drastic changes to the manner sex crimes are examined have been hailed as a "huge step forward" by campaigners. Recent instructions to be issued to all police forces and prosecutors will need rape suspects to satisfy the officials that a woman agreed to sex.

Police and prosecutors must now put a considerable charge of responsibility on rape suspects to show how the complainant had allowed "with full capacity and freedom to do so", as per the new guidance. Rape sufferers should no longer be accused by society if they are too inebriated to consent to sex, or if they simply freeze and say nothing, Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, said.