Bid to bar reporting Ken Clarke’s name in sex accuser’s trial fails

‘Exaro saw off an attempt to bar reporting the name of former cabinet minister Kenneth Clarke over allegedly false accusations of sexual assault. Benjamin Matthew Fellows, 40, an actor, is due to face trial at Southwark crown court this summer on a charge of intent to pervert the course of justice in late 2012 after he is alleged to have falsely accused Clarke of indecently assaulting him in 1994. Fellows was allegedly posing at the time as a 15-year-old boy.’

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