It’s been a tough week for Paris Brown. Britain’s first “youth police and crime commissioner” is hardly the first to be on the receiving end of a Mail on Sunday hatchet job. But at 17, she’s among the youngest.
The “foul mouthed teen crime tsar”, so called by the same paper, found square miles of newsprint devoted to her foolish tweets, just days after her appointment was announced. Soon after it emerged that her own Kent police would be investigating her offensive comments, she resigned.