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The Crown Prosecution Service said Starmer was "extremely concerned" about the collapse of proceedings.

Largest ever trial of police officers collapses 2011

Starmer on the other hand, presents this as the way forward for prosecutors, who should be doing more to enable disabled people to be heard by the courts and have cases againt them taken seriously.

Rape and crimes against the disabled: the state admits it should do more | Afua Hirsch 2011

For example, Starmer referred to another story in the Guardian about a man named Jim Watts, featured in our miscarriages of justice section "Justice on Trial".

Rape and crimes against the disabled: the state admits it should do more | Afua Hirsch 2011

Speaking at the University of Sussex, Keir Starmer has acknowledged that disabled people lack confidence in the criminal justice system, and that prosecutors have to do their part in reversing that.

Rape and crimes against the disabled: the state admits it should do more | Afua Hirsch 2011

The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, had supported the decision and backed a full review into the circumstances leading up to the collapse, the court was told.

Largest ever trial of police officers collapses 2011

Later, according to Starmer, a senior barrister was appointed to run the prosecution and "he is clear that he did not at any stage give a definitive view that the narrow interpretation was the only possible interpretation".

John Yates's phone-hacking testimony leaves some unanswered questions 2011

And Starmer admits that the kind of incidents reported by the Guardian where both the police and prosecutors have humiliated disabled people by failing to take them seriously, are part of the problem.

Rape and crimes against the disabled: the state admits it should do more | Afua Hirsch 2011

The current director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, has told the committee that, at an early stage of the original inquiry, an in-house lawyer at the CPS did raise this interpretation but added that it was "very much untested, and further consideration will need to be given to this".

John Yates's phone-hacking testimony leaves some unanswered questions 2011

Starmer cites figures that in London, almost double the number of disabled people have suffered some sort of harassment or crime than people without disabilities.

Rape and crimes against the disabled: the state admits it should do more | Afua Hirsch 2011