BBC News Text :
[A woman has won a £35,000 payout from
the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after
her rape case was dropped amid claims
she could have had
“sexsomnia”.
Jade Blue McCrossen-Nethercott, 32,
contacted police in 2017, telling them
she thought she had been raped
while asleep after waking up half-naked
and finding her necklace broken on the floor.
Charges were dropped after lawyers for
the alleged perpetrator claimed Jade had a
medically recognised, but rare, sleep disorder
that causes a person to engage
in sexual acts while asleep.
The paper quotes a BBC interview in which
she said the CPS had taken
her "to the darkest points of my life”
and that it felt “like a big triumph to
be able to hold them accountable”.]
