Rape
14-year-old Viktorija Sokolova was murdered and raped by an unnamed 16-year old boy. He has been found guilty of her rape and murder at a park in Wolverhampton. Her body was left half-naked on a bench and discovered by a local resident.
The soap sought to challenge societal attitudes towards the issue.
We need to entrench the idea of enthusiastic consent. Until that happens, victims will continue to be let down by the criminal justice system
Myths about how rape victims are expected to behave continue to pollute our society, and jurors are taking these attitudes with them into the court room
We need to place the blame where it belongs, and that is on those who perpetrate the violent acts
Survivors, campaigners and counsellors have experienced a whirlwind 12 months.
No one would judge me if I wanted to scream at them with every insult - but I don't think that's what I'd want to do
I reported my sexual assault but I was still silenced. I didn’t realise but Ford's words have become mine, the undertow of my thoughts and dreams and fears for 21 years
The returning character will be attacked in the coming weeks.
My first encounter of male rape as a police station officer taught me how important conversations about this issue are