Prosecutor: No Le Vell 'witch hunt'

A top prosecutor has denied there is a “celebrity witch-hunt” in the wake of the acquittal of Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell on child sex abuse charges.

Nazir Afzal, the Crown Prosecution Service national lead on child sexual exploitation, said “nobody should be above the law” and it is the Crown’s job to look at evidence, follow it wherever it may go and then present it.