"Figure 14: Reasons for prosecutions not resulting in a conviction for rape-flagged cases and other sexual offences","" "England and Wales, year ending March 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. CPS data are not designated as official statistics. 2. Other key reasons refer to: caution, bindover, conflict of evidence, essential legal element missing, unreliable witness and acquittals, although it should be noted that in Figure 14, the proportion of acquittals are represented as a separate category from the other key reasons. 3. ""Other reasons"" refer to a number of explanations for an outcome which does not result in conviction including missing statements and breach of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE). " "Unit","%" "","" "","Other sexual offences","Rape-flagged" "Acquittals","50.27647809","58.60786397" "Other reasons","20.96980","9.458023379" "Other key reasons","15.99319","15.78108395" "Victim Retraction","7.528711187","9.829968119" "Victim Non-Attendance","3.190131859","0.690754516" "Evidence of Victim does not support case/come up to proof but no retraction","2.04168439","5.632306057"