Undoubtedly North Yorkshire’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan deserves sympathy over her recent revelation that as a teenager she was the victim of a serious sexual assault in a situation that she still considers was partly of her own making.

She deserves no such sympathy, however, for the recent report about how she victimised her staff through disrespect, humiliation and bullying in a situation that was entirely of her own making.

Ms Mulligan’s irrational attempt to link the two events into a gender-specific #MeToo agenda (The Press, January 19) is perplexing and once again raises questions over her judgement.

Is she trying to say her recent behaviour is excusable because of her past?

Obsessing over one particular category of female crime victims because of her own personal early life experience is not what we expect of someone in Ms Mulligan’s role.

There are in North Yorkshire around 12,000 victims of violent crime each year, including all forms of domestic abuse, who deserve just as much focus.

I have previously identified shortcomings in Ms Mulligan’s credibility and accused her of lacking self awareness. I am afraid this episode raises further questions about her fitness for office.

Allan Charlesworth,

Old Earswick, York