lady brittan.your experiences have been so difficult in all of this. an mp on the committee took lady brittan back to events seven years ago. when you were first contacted by the police, did you alreadyl about guilt on the issue? did you feel that there was any kind or prospect of fairness - in the way the matter| was being dealt with? i suppose if i were to be frank, at that particular period of my life, remember, this is way back at the end of �*14, early �*15, my husband was critically ill in hospital, it is a very difficult thing a husband or wife in hospital have to talk about, and he was so clear that his conscience was clear, that we didn't talk about it, and so i managed the death, the funeral, all of those i had to do in the first thing that really got to know about all of this was when the officers knocked on my door at eight o'clock in the morning on, i think it was the 5th of march, and i was shocked beyond belief. i had no idea what it was about. of course i sort of half followed some

the widow of the former home secretary, leon brittan, told mps on the home affairs committee that itn said that she hadn't heard the precise details about the false claims against her husband ——a fantasist�*s claims of a vip paedophile ring were ever believed. lady brittan said that she hadn't heard the precise details about the false claims against her husband until after his death in 2015. it was only later when i realised that the presumption of innocence had not been given to these men. and then also, i realised reading the report that all sorts of things that had happened which perhaps shouldn't have happened if the policing had been a little bit less... put it this way, in favour of the person who was doing the complaining. the government suffered more defeats in the house of lords over its domestic abuse bill. in one, peers backed proposals for tougher supervision and monitoring of serial domestic abusers and stalkers. a lib dem peer shared her own experience at the hands of a stalker. he dropped letters through my letterbox just so i knew that he knew where i lived. he phoned

your thoughts on the discussion that has got very — it's got brittan talking, hasn't it, this terribleorrific, and _ story of sarah everard? it's horrific, and my _ story of sarah everard? it's horrific, and my thoughts and prayers — horrific, and my thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends, — prayers are with her family and friends, i— prayers are with her family and friends, i cannot imagine what they would _ friends, i cannot imagine what they would he _ friends, i cannot imagine what they would be going through. it certainly has got _ would be going through. it certainly has got britton talking, and it's a good _ has got britton talking, and it's a good thing. these are stories, and i have _ good thing. these are stories, and i have learned and seen a lot notjust on people's— have learned and seen a lot notjust on people's experiences over social media, _ on people's experiences over social media, but— on people's experiences over social media, but talking to family and friends — media, but talking to family and friends and things that i personally wouldn't _ friends an