Half of crime victims not told about support

Just over half of families of homicide victims and victims of rape and sexual assault say they were not informed by gardaí of support services, according to a new survey.

And seven out of 10 of these victims said they felt re-victimised by the criminal justice system.

Details of the survey, still to be published in full, are contained in a new report, Preventable Harm, published by the Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development.