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Freud Communications postpones summer party after Sir Clement Freud abuse claims emerge

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By John Glenday, Reporter

June 16, 2016 | 2 min read

Freud Communications has postponed a private party for senior staff and its families at the eleventh hour after the abuse revelations surrounding the late Liberal MP Sir Clement Freud emerged.

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According to the ITV, the company's founder, Matthew Freud called an abrupt halt to last night’s party at his Primrose Hill mansion after news broke that ITV was to broadcast horrific allegations that his father was a serial child abuser.

In light of this the PR guru informed all those who were to attend the event that the night would not proceed, explaining that it would not be possible nor appropriate to continue in the circumstances.

In an email, Andrew McGuinness, chief executive of Freud Communications, wrote: “With everything that's going on we think it's best to postpone this evening.”

Exposure: Abused And Betrayed - A Life Sentence shattered the public reputation of Sir Clement by exposing his double life as a sexual abuser over a period of forty years.

In the piece two women have come forward to allege that they were abused by Clement Freud in the late 1940s and 1970s.

A third woman has also come forward to talk of the abuse she experienced and has called for him to be stripped of his Knighthood.

Jill Freud, wife of Sir Clement, issued a statement where she said that she was "deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women".

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