Charlotte Meredith
Express.co.uk
May 9, 2013
A TOP female barrister has sparked outrage after claiming the age of consent in Britain should be lowered to 13 in order to stop the “persecution of old men” in the wake of the Savile sex abuse scandal.
Lawyer Barbara Hewson’s shocking comments have been condemned by children’s charities after she dismissed child sex abuse crimes as mere “low level misdemeanours” which would not normally be prosecuted.
Describing the recent arrests of multiple celebrities like Stuart Hall under Operation Yewtree as a “grotesque spectacle,” Hewson bizarrely likened what she saw as the post-Jimmy Savile “witch-hunt” to Soviet-era Russia.
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