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Lady Lavinia Nourse: ‘I was so frightened, absolutely petrified, of what was going to happen’
Lady Lavinia Nourse, the 77 year old widow of former high court judge Sir Martin Nourse, was sensationally acquitted of 17 counts of historical child sex abuse just over a month ago.
In her first broadcast interview, she's calling for those accused of child sex abuse to be anonymous until charged.
She says that the case has left her life in pieces and describes the experience of being on trial for such abhorrent crimes.
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