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Victim support group warns justice backlog is having a 'devastating' impact on mental health

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A victims’ charity has repeated calls for controversial trial without jury after warning a backlog in justice is causing a “devastating impact” on mental health.

Kate Wallace, chief executive of Victim Support Scotland, revealed a 400 per cent increase in “safeguarding reports” on potential suicide.

She said it is “unacceptably cruel” to allow criminal trials to delay for years because of serious coronavirus restrictions on courts.

Wallace suggested sitting without a jury despite a furious backlash to the proposal among MSPs when the Scottish Government tried to pass an emergency law in March.

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