SamCam’s sister: I was left naked in pool

DAVID Cameron’s sister-in-law has claimed that an ex-boyfriend’s father tore her clothes off on a family holiday when she was in her teens.

Emily Sheffield, the younger sister of Samantha Cameron, said the man and his friend removed her top in a swimming pool as a ‘jolly jape’ while her then-boyfriend ‘egged them on’.

Miss Sheffield, the former deputy editor of British Vogue, described sexual harassment as ‘endemic’ and called for change.

She recounted her own experience, after going on holiday with a boyfriend and his family. ‘A few days in, his father and his middleaged friend, probably both 50, decided it would be a jolly jape to strip me in the pool. The man’s wife walked inside the villa, my boyfriend egged them on from the poolside. I fled with my top removed.’

The 44-year-old also said an unnamed male boss, 25 years her senior, asked if she would ‘ **** him’ during a lunch meeting. ‘Recovering from my initial shock, I said no, naturally,’ she wrote in the London Evening Standard. ‘He countered with a long explanation of how I would be a failure in my career.’ Miss Sheffield, who is married to actor Tom Mullion, said the former boyfriend had also bragged about harassing women with his friends on holiday by playing what they called ‘Bucking Bronco’. This involved luring girls ‘back to their cheap high-rise hotel’ before pinning them down and shouting ‘Bucking Bronco’.

‘Their friends would then rush inside and start loudly counting to ten, to see how long it took the woman – or in this case a young girl probably not yet 18 – to buck off the man,’ she wrote.

Another boyfriend ‘exaggerated everything we had done sexually’ to his friends after they split up, she said. ‘None of these experiences left me hurt – mostly angry. I could continue with more tales, as could most women. The endless revelations prove that the above, and much worse, is still happening’.

However, despite detailing her own treatment, Miss Sheffield warned against ‘kneejerk reactions’ to sex abuse claims. ‘As much as we hope some good will come of all these recent torrid retellings, there is also a danger that we are getting lost in the headlines and drama – knee-touching, bathrobes, swathes of sexual predators. It has now become a full-blown media maelstrom.’