Rapist jailed after prostitutes bring private prosecution
Independent, Wednesday 20 September 1995, p.11
Two women who brought the first private prosecution for rape and indecent assault after the Crown Prosecution Service dropped their cases saw their attacker jailed for 14 years yesterday.
Coming the week after a London family – in another private prosecution – succeeded in committing for trail two men accused of killing their son, the case again calls into question the CPS’s judgment and code of practice. . .
After the sentence, one of the prostitutes … said they had been forced to take the law into their own hands "to gain justice". "This case has proved all women have the right to say no, whatever the circumstances, "she said. But she added the they had only been able to pursue the case with the support of Women Against Rape and the English Collective of Prostitutes – the costs and difficulties of a private prosecution meant most women were denied such an option.

Private case brings rapist to justice
The Guardian, Thursday May 18 1995
. . . Speaking after the trial, Nina Lopes-Jones of Legal Action for Women said . . . "This shows violent men are walking free. The CPS has to review its policy and practices in the light of this verdict.". . . 
"This establishes that the issue is consent and that every woman has the right to say ‘no’, regardless of whether it’s in the home, on the street, or in the home of a client. The strength of a case should be decided on the facts rather than on the prejudices of the CPS".

Women Say CPS fails to prosecute most rape cases
Protest Groups present dossier of alleged attacks that have never gone to court.
The Times, Friday May 5 1995, p.4The Crown Prosecution Service was accused yesterday of failing to prosecute rape cases.  Two women's groups, Women Against Rape and Legal Action for Women, published a dossier of cases they said were among the many turned down by the CPS.
They listed 15 cases where women have alleged rape the the CPS has refused to prosecute...
"Increasingly, people have been forced to take the law into their own hands by bringing private prosecutions and civil actions when the CPS refused to prosecute" the groups say...
Five of the victims are or were children at the time of the attack; three are women with disabilities: three are black; one is an immigrant and two are students. Only two of the women and children were raped by complete strangers.
... Women Against Rape said "The director of Public Prosecutions seems to think these are individual instances we are concerned about; but there is a pattern here."...
The victims were all particularly vulnerable, she added.  They included women with disabilities, black and immigrant women woman prostitutes.  "The CPS denies any discrimination against particular sectors but the facts contradict this."