Wolf-whistling and cat-calling will NOT be treated as hate crimes, insists Britain’s top prosecutor 

 Britain’s top prosecutor has rejected calls for sexist abuse to be treated as a hate crime.

Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders spoke out against criminalising wolf-whistling or cat-calling, saying such a move would give female victims false hope that their tormentors would be punished.

Labour MP Stella Creasy has said that misogyny should be made a hate crime to tackle ‘upskirting’.

But in written evidence to a Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry on hate crime, Mrs Saunders said: ‘Legislation is not the starting point to tackle [misogyny]; it is about changing attitudes and shifting societal views on women.’