THE victims’ commissioner for England and Wales quit her post in anger today at the government’s legislative attacks on the rights of victims. 

Dame Vera Baird announced in a damning letter on Friday that she will leave the role on September 30, at the end of her contract. 

In a letter, sent to Justice Secretary Brandon Lewis, Dame Vera criticised the government’s “inadequate” Victims Bill and the Bill of Rights, which she argues “so severely threatens victims’ human rights that it undermines what little progress the Victims’ Bill is set to bring.”