Singer Chrissie Hynde has been criticised for saying that it can be a woman’s fault if she is raped.

Chrissie Hynde
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The Pretenders rocker, 63, told the Sunday Times Magazine that women who dress provocatively while walking down the street drunk are to blame if they are attacked.

“If I’m walking around in my underwear and I’m drunk? Who else’s fault can it be?”

She had also said that women shouldn’t wear high heels so that they are able to run away from an attack.

Her comments were condemned by the charity Victim Support.

Lucy Hastings, the charity’s director, said: “Victims of sexual violence should never feel or be made to feel that they were responsible for the appalling crime they suffered – regardless of circumstances or factors which may have made them particularly vulnerable.”

The singer was attacked herself in Ohio when a motorcycle gang forced her to perform sex acts on them.