I often wonder why those that lie in court are not prosecuted for perjury, but like any prosecution, there has to be a reasonable chance of a conviction and it has to be in the public interest.

I can understand why people would want this girl to be prosecuted, because she has cost the police and criminal services a lot of time, cost the taxpayer a lot of money, resources have been diverted from those that are truly affected by criminal acts and so on. But as people have said she didn't make the decision to prosecute, CPS did. She only presented the facts as she believed them to be - no doubt with a little garnish on them.

That said there is a young man whose reputation and career have been all but destroyed by this case and that is unacceptable. The police and CPS should be doing their jobs more thoroughly.

Probably the most important reason for not prosecuting in many cases and in these incidences in particular is that it would scare many people (women mainly) from making such allegations. You wouldn't want a situation where a person not able to prove they have been sexually assaulted, are then in danger of being prosecuted themselves and as most statistics show, sexual assault is very difficult to prove with only 1 in 14 allegations leading to a conviction. Of those that go to trial, only about 50% are convicted.