Judge throws out Andrew Tate’s legal claim to be told names of accusers

CPS says decision to withhold names is due to fears Tate and his brother could identify alleged victims online Andrew and Tristan Tate’s legal claim to be told the names of their female accusers has been thrown out by a high court judge who ruled that prosecutors had acted reasonably in treating the brothers as “notorious”. Mr Justice Chamberlain on Friday rejected an attempt to compel the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to inform the Tates of the identities of the women whose allegations have formed the basis for charges against the men of rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking. The Tates’ lawyers had argued that the director of public prosecution’s description of the brothers as “notorious” when explaining the withholding of the women’s identities illustrated how the men were being treated in an unreasonable manner that breached their right to a fair trial. In his judgment, Chamberlain said the DPP, Stephen Parkinson, had not been “unfair” in reasoning that there was a risk that informing the brothers of the women’s names could lead to their public identification on social media. He wrote: “The high profile of the claimants was not an irrelevant fa