Lizzie - I hope that you are never in the situation that some women experience. The absolute embarrassment of the 'he said she said', even now is enough to stop even prominent women from reporting these things, let alone a girl of 15, which Linda Nolan was when it happened to her. Many women choose to confront the abuser there and then and not take it further, particularly when the abuser has power and influence as is the case with the Yewtree abusers.

Then there is the situation. You are 'telling tales' on a much loved, very influential entertainer who is friends with those in high places. When, as was prevalent at the time, there was general atmosphere of 'she must have asked for it', would you really want to totally jeopardise your own position in the company? This applies to any woman who has been assaulted in this way, not just the well known. And so what if Feltz's husband could support her? That is a very chauvinistic attitude to take. Should she have been content to just be the wifey because she had lost her own career?

It is all very well, to sit in an ivory tower and say what should be done. In my own personal experience it would have led to a great deal of personal embarrassment and real problems for my then partner in the workplace to have done that and there was the very strong likelihood that it would all have been swept under the carpet to avoid any 'unpleasantness' and I could have been labeled as a troublemaker and sidelined in my own career.

Thankfully, now, these incidents are being brought into the light and that is good to see. Maybe there will be a change in the relevant culture and women and children will be less afraid to tell on adults for these abuses. I'm not going to hold my breath though. When even high politicians collude in covering up abuses what hope have the rest of us got?