Television presenter Charlie Webster has resigned as a patron of Sheffield United after the club allowed convicted rapist Ched Evans to train. The club said earlier this week that it had granted their former player permission to train with the side following a request from the Professional Footballers' Association.
Ms Webster told BBC's Newsnight that "at no point" had the club acknowledged the "extremity of his crime". She also said that "nobody" was making a decision about Evans, adding: "I suppose I feel I need to make a decision as a patron of Sheffield United. My decision is made on the fact that I don't believe a convicted rapist, as in Ched Evans, should go back to a club that I am patron of and should go back into the community to represent the community."
Charlie Webster pictured at the Great Yorkshire Run in September 2014 where she ran on behalf of Sheffield United's community appeal.
The former Wales international footballer was jailed for five years in April 2012 for raping a woman in a hotel room in Rhyl but was released last month after serving half of his sentence.
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