Lucy Beaumont highlights ‘insanity’ of consent laws as she urges change

Lucy Beaumont has shared a post on Instagram calling for the age of consent laws in the UK to change, presenting an 'insane' scenario in which it would be legal for someone who is still legally considered a child to have sex with a man in their 60s.

She wrote on Instagram: "If you have a 12-year-old daughter, in four years time a man in his 60s can legally have sex with her. It's hard for me to write this and I'm sure for the majority of us it's hard for us to read it.

“But we have to. He is not a criminal. We can't prosecute him.

“BUT the insanity of it .. the law agrees with us; she's still thought of as a child.

“He can't legally buy her a drink and he can't have a nude image of her. But he can sleep with her.

“And f*ck her life up.”

"Who is the law protecting? #closetheagegap."

Beaumont made headlines earlier this week for revealing herself to be one of the whistleblowers who raised concerns about David Walliams after a three-year investigation by The Guardian and ITV News accused him of sexual misconduct involving young women.

Walliams denies these allegations and any suggestions of criminality in their report, releasing a statement in which he said: "I am not a sexual predator."

The comedian appeared on Sky News, where she claimed that a young staff member on a TV show she was working on came to her to inform her that Walliams was allegedly bringing young women ,who were 'definitely' over the age of 16, into his dressing room. She believed they were 'vulnerable'.

Beaumont added that she had never witnessed any poor behaviour from Walliams, but added that she believed that there needed to be a major change in safeguarding on TV shows.

More to follow.