The drunk QC who engaged in a sex act outside Waterloo station during rush hour has persuaded police to expunge her caution, clearing the way for the Bar Standards Board to drop its probe into her.

Police arrested the barrister and gave her a caution for outraging public decency last summer after shocked commuters watched her clinching solicitor Graeme Stening with her pants around her ankles. Both the woman and Stening accepted the caution, but six weeks later she claimed she was too drunk to consent and had been the victim of a sexual assault. 

"Graeme meets [redacted], Waterloo Station, ev-er-y Friday night"

The move guaranteed the QC lifelong anonymity (and gave rise to some unfounded rumours as to her identity), while Stening was subjected to an eight month investigation before police confirmed he would not be prosecuted. The QC demanded a review of the decision, but the police upheld their original conclusion on the grounds of a lack of evidence, and witnesses who said that the QC was a willing participant.

However, after almost a year she has successfully convinced the police to drop her caution. It means her record has been cleaned and the BSB, which was investigating the QC in relation to her caution, no longer has a basis on which to continue. RollOnFriday asked the BSB whether it should carry on anyway to establish whether she smeared Stening with a false allegation to win herself anonymity, making a mockery of sex victim anonymity legislation and weakening the rule of law in the process. RollOnFriday also asked the QC to comment anonymously. Neither responded.