Keeler son launches pardon bid

CHRISTINE Keeler should be posthumously pardoned because she was ‘slut-shamed’ by the British legal establishment, according to her son.

Seymour Platt will tomorrow formally launch a bid for his mother’s conviction for perjury to be set aside.

Mr Platt, 49, told The Mail on Sunday that his mother, pictured, was ‘victimised’ by her treatment in the wake of the Profumo affair. Showgirl Keeler scandalised Britain in 1963 when it emerged she had slept with John Profumo, the married Minister for War, while also seeing a Russian naval attaché.

She later admitted lying at the trial of Aloysius ‘Lucky’ Gordon, who had stalked and brutally assaulted her.

‘The treatment of Christine can be identified as “slut-shaming”, denigrating a woman for behaviour framed as provocative,’ Mr Platt’s pardon submission will say.