article_snippet: One Detective Inspector was found to have a case to answer for misconduct but retired before the inquiry could be completed.
article_snippet: By the summer of 2013 force investigators had identified the Det Insp should attend a formal misconduct hearing but investigators left 2013 force in January 2014.
article_snippet: Arrests were made but one case was dropped by state prosecutors.
article_snippet: It was not until a year later that a full investigation was launched.
article_snippet: CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE .
article_snippet: An early police investigation in 2009 was passed to prosecutors but astonishingly no action was taken.
article_snippet: Instead a senior CPS prosecutor 'refused charge', claiming it was unlikely to lead to a successful trial.
article_snippet: That was despite the existence of forensic evidence including DNA swabs from a victim's underwear.
article_snippet: It was two years before that decision was overturned.
article_snippet: Yesterday's report found prosecutors thought a victim would be seen by the court as an unreliable witness, and blamed the cost of bringing the case and 'officer workload' for that decision.