Lady Lavinia Nourse: Ex-High Court judge widow in 'anonymity until charge' call

That article contains a 4.35 minute video clip from her recent interview on Woman's Hour, where she speaks emotionally KyLof her life being shattered.

Full interview, also containing an interview with her lawyer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xm6m

Should be annonymity until conviction. Why should the potentially innocent (in just a legal sense) be splashed all over the press? What is the "public interest" in that? Never understood that argument....

Wyot wrote:
Should be annonymity until conviction. Why should the potentially innocent (in just a legal sense) be splashed all over the press? What is the "public interest" in that? Never understood that argument....

absolutely but you can imagine the media would fight this tooth and nail.

Have great sympathy for this poor lady

I suspect that “in public interest”, in this instance, relates to the “it will prevent victims from coming forward” nonsense. This approach assumes that genuine victims are incapable of reporting incidents independently, or seeking help or support to do so. It also runs the risk of having large numbers of liars and/or exaggerators come forward at once with the knock-on effect of making a case seem credible and true. Why can't reporting and support services simply be advertised instead?