UK government to consider changing age of consent after allegations against Russell Brand
The government has said it will consider calls to change the age of consent after a woman waived her right to anonymity to publicly claim she was raped by Russell Brand as a 16-year-old schoolgirl. Mia Latter, now 37, alleged she had been orally raped by the jailed comedian when she was a teenager and he was 30 years old. In an interview with the Sunday Times, she called for the introduction of a staggered age of consent – which would make...