IF YOU want a platinum-plated, fur-lined, ocean-going example of just how twisted life in Britain has become, the case of the 13-year-old paedophile victim branded as predatory should tell you.

Prosecutor Robert Colover – the man you’d imagine was supposed to stick up for this child in court – told a London hearing: “The girl is predatory in all her actions and she is sexually experienced.”

Then, unbelievably, he claimed the sexual activity was ‘forced upon’ perp Neil Wilson, who not only admitted sexual activity with a child but to two counts of making extreme pornographic images.

Then Judge Nigel Peters put the boot in again, re-using the p-word, telling Wilson the girl had been ‘egging you on’ and announcing that all he was imposing was a suspended eight-month prison sentence.

Why didn’t he just order the young victim to be branded an evil temptress and paraded round the city on the back of a cart and be done with it?

More pertinently, instead of condemning her, didn’t this prosecutor and judge even stop to consider just WHY a 13-year-old girl may be behaving this way?

Didn’t it occur to them that someone behaving as she did; truanting, cadging cigarettes off strangers, going off to the home of a man nearly three times her age, may have been the victim of previous abuse herself?

Or that, like so many other kids, she may be a victim of the appalling internet porn culture – created by adults – which has left millions of under-16s confused as to how they should behave over the tricky subject of sex.

But why would they do this when we have barristers like the hatchet-faced Barbara Hewson, whose job description apparently reads ‘human rights lawyer’, tweeting that: “Disgusting tho’ these men are, frankly the girls are often not much better.” She also put forward the view that it takes ‘two to tango’.

It does... if the two in question are consenting adults and there is no question of coercion. But we’re talking about a child here.

And we’re talking about the kind of abuse that blights lives, smashes trust and leaves hundreds and thousands of people living a half life, of self-disgust, loathing and shame.

And if ‘human rights’ lawyers, and judges and senior prosecutors don’t understand this, then why the hell are they still in their jobs?