Barrister reprimanded for victim-blaming

One of the UK’s top barristers was reprimanded today (FRI) for making ‘offensive’ comments about a child abuse victim while her mother sat in court. Howard Godfrey QC said the 16-year-old ‘was not a young and innocent girl’ as he represented her attacker Simon Raglan in the Court of Appeal in August 2015. Raglan had been jailed for two years for groping the child after plying her with home-made alcohol. But Godfrey, the highest paid criminal barrister in 2010, claimed…