This approach stopped decades ago, primarily because women were treated so poorly for late reporting that the vast majority of domestic assaults and rapes went unreported
As we have seen with several recent cases, if a witness is credible the police are now willing to support a case even if the victim reports the assault years after the incident
It's how the system works, whether or not you agree with it is a different story.
And a rape charge v a death threat charge are two completely different things, a rape majority of times can be proven via dna samples, and other such methods that would be involved in proving whether or not a rape has taken place.
A death threat, is your word vs the accused, if you can not prove and show to the courts sufficient evidence that at that very time your very life was in danger, then the charge will get thrown out.
Any lawyer worth a grain of salt will have it thrown out.
Police were never called at the time
The lady never took measures to remove herself from the situation
Lady in question days after still never reported the incident to the police
Instead she goes to the media
As far as to the facts that we know, she hasn't gone for an intervention order
With the facts that we know so far to date, and from what we know, when you put all the facts together, it seems she never really felt her life was in danger at any point.