The evidence that would be required to be presented would be by way of DNA evidence.

I assume that you are describing the same set of allegations that i have heard of.

If a sexual assault has taken place then there should be a requirement for the forensic evidence to be put forward.

In the case of no forensic evidence existing then you and every other commonsense thinking person would sensibly conclude that there is no case to answer.

This though, is a perfect world situation and the now legal reality is that where no forensic evidence exists the Authorities will rely entirely on the word of mouth of a i dare say a group of people looking to make gains of one means or another.

We are living in very dangerous times where all of us can be severely disadvantaged due to the words of any other individual.

I will use the  example of Dave Lee Travis....her was arrested and held and subsequently embarrassed as the result of a woman saying that at sometime in the 1970s he had touched her inappropriately.

what evidence will exist to support such an allegation?

Yet...what evidence will exist to disprove the same.?

However....this and similar arrests and attempts at investigation will wholly rely on word of mouth and it is this that i am highlighting.

I genuinely fear that the allegations will be taken very seriously even where no absolute evidence is provided, this in turn could  encourage certain lobby groups along with the police and influential members of the judiciary to push parliament for more amendments to the law as to what will pass for evidence.

The bar has already been lowered to a low level already.

This was the result of the various cries that "Too many guilty people were walking from court"....of course this was never the case.

The truth of the matter was that there was no evidence to convict as  many people as these certain lobby groups wished for.

In order to appease them and Government wishing to appear to be acting tough on crime they merrily lowered the evidential bar

Many offences have now been politicised and there is little chance of securing the right result under these conditions.

This is the core of my point.