After six days under attack, husband’s folly was final straw

UNITED KINGDOM
The Times

Laura Pitel Political Correspondent

The reputation of her late brother had been called into question and her actor nephew was left to come to her defence on national radio.

However, the last straw for Baroness Butler-Sloss, the short-lived chairwoman of the sex abuse inquiry, came when her husband was dragged into the affair.

A diary story in the Daily Mail yesterday reported that the retired high court judge Joseph Butler-Sloss, now 87, was caught paying for sex with prostitutes in Kenya in 1988.

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