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Why I Was Right To Prosecute Caroline Flack
The Sunday Mirror
|June 07, 2020
CPS chief defends court decision over tragic star
The lawyer accused of pursuing a “show trial” against Caroline Flack insists he made the right decision in prosecuting her.
In a highly unusual intervention, Ed Beltrami asked what would have happened if the Crown Prosecution Service had dropped the case and the Love Island presenter had then attacked lover Lewis Burton again.
CPS boss Mr Beltrami admitted the case had troubled him since 40-year old Caroline took her own life.
But he said: “You’ve got to do what you think is right. You cannot do what you think is popular.”
He added he had never heard of her before the file landed on his desk.
Caroline died on February 15, weeks before she was due to stand trial for an assault on model and former tennis pro-Lewis, 28, at their £1million North London flat on December 12. She was charged without Lewis’ backing.
This story is from the June 07, 2020 edition of The Sunday Mirror.
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