Honours system under scrutiny after sex abuser kept title for years

Hubert Chesshyre, who had many senior roles in the royal household, abused a teenage chorister in the 1990s.Photograph: PALawyers have called for an overhaul of the honours forfeiture system after it emerged that a sex abuser retained an honour bestowed for services to the Queen some three years after a court recognised him as a paedophile. The system is too slow to acknowledge an offender’s offences, say lawyers specialising in abuse claims, and, in the case of those who have died, cannot