Vera Baird QC raises concern after Frances Andrade's son accuses police and CPS of letting his mother downOne of Britain's most senior lawyers has called for a review of how courts handle sexual abuse cases following the suicide of a professional violinist after giving evidence at the trial of her former music teacher.The former solicitor general Vera Baird QC raised concern over claims by the family of Frances Andrade, who killed herself days after testifying against Michael Brewer, that the cross-examination by the defence had been hostile and aggravated her trauma.Baird, now the police commissioner for Northumbria, said the family's assertion that the police had advised Andrade not to receive any therapy until after the trial was appalling."That is the police, in a very out-of-date way, treating the court as a sort of theatre," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme."The theory used to be unless literally the pain of being sexually abused comes out, because she hasn't had help to come back to normal, the jury will be unimpressed."If that is the way they thought then it is firstly … abysmal psychiatry and secondly it is an appalling misjudgment.