During the autumn the story broke that Coronation Street actor Michael le Vell (he plays Kevin Webster) was accused of child sex allegations and arrested and bailed. The story was front page news everywhere and his name was dragged through the mud.

A few days ago it was announced that the CPS had dropped the charges because of 'insufficient evidence'. The CPS were very weaselly in the words they chose in stating the charges were dropped.

Due to the nature of the accusation and his public profile and the publicity it therefore received, he will forever sadly have this associated with him.

This is why the government's backing down on granting anonymity to rape defendants unless found guilty was such a betrayal. Not just because Michael's case is another example of how someone's name can be dragged through the mud based on a false accusation (if he is not being prosecuted then it must be false - surely) but also because the coalition government put it in their manifesto.

Another sad chapter in the anti-male society we live in and to the anti-male modern-day feminists, he is just collateral damage.

Posted by Skimmington