In the Guardian today, the above and:
Police forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse, previously known as “revenge pornography”, according to research that has triggered a super-complaint over the way such crimes are handled.
Lawyers have gathered evidence from 100 people who reported intimate images being shared online without their consent. Their research suggests that image-based abuse is still frequently dismissed or not recognised as criminal offending, despite being described by the former prime minister Keir Starmer as a national emergency.
Referrals to the Revenge Porn helpline, the charity that helps victims get non-consensual images removed from the internet, increased by more than 4,000% between 2015 and 2025, but data from 39 police forces in England and Wales shows that charges were lodged against perpetrators in an average of just 4.5% of cases last year. In some forces the figure was lower than 1%.
In Scotland?
Recorded crimes of “threatening to or disclosing intimate images” in 2025–26 – The clear-up rate for that category rose from 41.3% to 49.5% over the same period.
More than 10 times the average in England and Wales.
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