‘Double standards’ as false rape claim woman kills herself

The father of a mentally ill woman who killed herself days before going on trial for making a false rape claim has questioned the decision not to take legal action against Lord Janner because of his dementia.

David de Freitas hit out at the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) decision not to press sex charges against the former Labour peer due to his ill health, when his own daughter was prosecuted for a single offence and was a suicide risk.

Mr de Freitas’s daughter Eleanor killed herself on April 4 last year, three days before she was due to stand trial accused of perverting the course of justice.