Lucy Beaumont backs campaign to close UK consent gap

Beaumont backs consent law change

Comedian Lucy Beaumont, 43, has thrown her support behind the Close The Consent Gap Campaign, which aims to change UK law that legally allows adults to have sex with children.

Beaumont was Walliams whistleblower

Beaumont has said she was a whistleblower in the David Walliams investigation.Walliams, 55, a bestselling author and former Britain's Got Talent judge, was named in an investigation by The Guardian and ITV News on Tuesday.

Multiple women accused Walliams

Multiple women accused Walliams of grooming them when they were teenagers. One woman described her alleged encounter with Walliams, when she was fifteen, as a sexual assault. Walliams denies any wrongdoing.

Beaumont raised concerns about dressing room

Beaumont said she had raised concerns about Walliams after being told he was hosting teenage girls in his dressing room while working on a TV show.

The insanity of current law

In an Instagram post, Beaumont wrote that under UK law a man in his sixties can legally have sex with a twelve year old girl in four years.

“If you have a 12-year-old daughter, in four years a man in his 60s can legally have sex with her.”

The law allows what it forbids

Beaumont said the law agrees a sixteen or seventeen year old is still a child, yet allows adults to have sex with them.

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

Beaumont told The Guardian

Beaumont said she did as much as she could do privately when she heard concerns about Walliams.

“I was one of the whistleblowers. I was one of the people to let The Guardian know.”

Walliams acknowledges thoughtlessness

In a letter sent several months ago to journalists, Walliams wrote that he behaved thoughtlessly towards people he had casual sexual relationships with and did not always take their feelings into account.

“I realise that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with.”