Clement Freud: Fourth women comes forward with claims 'paedophile MP' assaulted her

Rosemary Rimmer-Clay claims Freud assaulted her aged 19, while she was studying at Dundee University

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A fourth woman has come forward claiming Sir Clement Freud sexually assaulted her.

Rosemary Rimmer-Clay was attending Dundee University, where Freud was rector, when they met at a Burns Night dinner on campus in 1975.

She told ITV News that Freud had invited her for a coffee. She said she “didn’t see anything sinister in it” at the time, and agreed to go with him.

The two ended up at Ms Rimmer-Clay’s flat, where he said he would cook her an omelette. She mentioned that this seemed strange to her, because they had just eaten a big meal at the on-campus dinner.

“Actually, I think that was a kind of ritual he had,” she told ITV. “He gave it to me in this very ceremonious way and watched me eat it.”

Ms Rimmer-Clay said that Freud then “lunged” at her.

In an attempt to get him away from her, Ms Rimmer-Clay shared with Freud that her sister taught his daughter, something which she said left him “horrified”.

“He kind of backed off, then he came over again and said ‘well at least give me a kiss’. I was thinking ‘this is vile, I don’t want to give him a kiss, but he had me up in a corner,” she said.

Ms Rimmer-Clay had never been kissed before, and described the incident as a “really horrible experience”.

She said that if she had not had the personal connection with his daughter, she thought that she would have been at “huge risk”.

“He was a very cold person,” she said. “There was nothing kind of fun or happy about him, he was just going to get this thing that he wanted, it was a power thing really and it felt very unpleasant. I was intimidated.

“He was abusing his power to prey on very young girls. I went from thinking ‘this is someone I really admire’ to thinking ‘he’s just a revolting creep.”

Three other women have come forward with accusations again Clement Freud, including Sylvia Woosley, who claims he began abusing her when she was 10 years old, and continued frequently assaulted her while she was living with Freud and his wife in London as a teenager.