Lawyer’s comments deeply regrettable, says Caroline Flack’s mother

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Caroline Flack’s mother said it is “deeply regrettable” that a lawyer who told a Sunday newspaper that prosecutors were right to pursue the Love Island presenter’s trial, “could not have let my beautiful daughter rest in peace”.

Ed Beltrami, who was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) north London division at the time but has since started a new role as Wales’s chief prosecutor, told the Wales on Sunday newspaper that he could not just do what he thought would be “popular”.

The TV presenter took her own life in February aged 40. Her mother, Chris Flack, said in a statement to her local newspaper the Eastern Daily Press: “It is deeply regrettable that Mr Beltrami could not have let my beautiful daughter rest in peace. “It is as