JULIA Somerville is a 48-year-old national television newsreader in Britain who was arrested this week in connection with the heinous crime of paedophilia.
She was released hours later and has now gained in public stature. Her crime - to take pictures of her young daughter in the bath, playing around and apparently covered in shaving foam.
She took the pictures, on a roll with many other innocent family snaps, to Boots the chemists where an over-zealous arbiter of public morality - the film processing technician - reported it to the police and the arrest took place.
There was an almighty row about how her name came to be leaked of course, whether it was the police or Boots. And one can only feel dreadfully sorry for Ms Somerville. Nonetheless sometimes it takes an injustice to a major figure in society to bring an issue to the public's attention.
I have always thought it none of the photo processors' business to take an interest in what appears on the films they are processing. Whether my holiday snaps contain scenes of wild orgies, bungee jumping or cocktails around the pool with John Major, it has absolutely nothing to do with them.
True, if they contained images of me privately carving up a corpse or pushing a donkey off a cliff then they should take action.
But to go to the police with Ms Somerville's daughter's photos is quite chilling. On the window sill behind me there is a photographer's envelope containing photos of my two daughters, then aged five and eight, completely naked in the bath with one of their friends. One even has soap suds on her nose.