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Prosecutor on Caroline Flack case speaks out after suicide and says it was right to pursue assault trial
Caroline Flack case has spoken out after her suicide and says it was right to pursue an assault trial. Ed Beltrami, who was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) north London division at the time, 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 her London home in February aged 40.Flack was awaiting trial on an assault charge for an alleged attack on her boyfriend Lewis Burton.Mr Beltrami said: “You’ve got to do what you think is right.
