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An extraordinary case was revealed on Friday afternoon.

In November 2020, a family court found that the ex-husband of Conservative MP Kate Griffiths, Andrew Griffiths (also a former Conservative MP for the same Staffordshire seat and former Conservative minister), raped her in her sleep, abused and coercively controlled her. These were civil proceedings, so the finding was based on the balance of probabilities, rather than the criminal standard of probable doubt. As is the norm in family court cases, this information was private and not made public.

But following a successful application by journalists, supported by Kate Griffiths, the details of this case, with both Kate and Andrew Griffiths鈥� names attached, were published on Friday.

Andrew Griffiths has denied allegations made by his ex-wife and 鈥渁damantly denied鈥� rape. Andrew Griffiths resigned from the government in 2018 after sending text messages of a sexual nature to two female constituents.

Emma Barnett spoke to Kate Griffiths鈥� barrister, Dr Charlotte Proudman, on Woman鈥檚 Hour on Monday to hear about the case and why Kate wanted the details to be published.

You can hear the full interview by heading to 蜜芽传媒 Sounds and listening to the Woman鈥檚 Hour podcast episode from Monday 13 December.

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