Oxford University must urgently investigate sexual violence and harassment against students by staff, one of Britain’s top lawyers has said, as new figures reveal that five dons have been disciplined over their behaviour in the last two years.
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, head of Mansfield College Oxford, warned the problem could be more than twice as bad as the figures suggest, and urged Oxford to launch an inquiry.
An unpublished report written by Baroness Kennedy, obtained by The Telegraph under Freedom of Information laws, recommended last July that a review of staff discipline was taken “very soon”.
The report, commissioned by Oxford, criticised secretive drinking societies and so-called...