A third woman who claims Sir Clement Freud abused her has called for his knighthood to be revoked.

Vicky Hayes, 64, said the late Liberal politician should be stripped of his honour after she went public with allegations he abused her.

She told ITV News that Freud would frequently visit her father's Lincoln seafood restaurant, known as Syd's, in the mid-1960s and that she first met him when she was 14.

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A fan of horses, Ms Hayes added that when she was 17, he returned to take her to Newmarket Races - assuring her parents that a housekeeper would also be present, and on the overnight trip plied her with champagne before allegedly abusing her.

Ms Hayes said she did not tell her parents, because her father would have "killed" Freud.

Ms Hayes said: "He should not be held up as a pillar of society, he is what I know him to be. He does not to deserve to keep his knighthood, I think he should be stripped of his knighthood."

She told Suffolk Police about the abuse in 2010.

A spokesman for the force said: "A historic allegation of abuse occurring more than 40 years ago was made to Suffolk Police in 2014, against a man who was deceased.

"This was formally recorded but as the suspect was no longer alive, there were no further lines of inquiry."

Ms Hayes is the third woman to come forward with allegations against Freud, with earlier claims prompting his widow to apologise.

Freud, who was friends with Gerry and Kate McCann, the parents of missing three-year-old Madeleine, who disappeared in 2007, was married to Jill, 89, for nearly 60 years.

In a statement released in response to the programme, his widow Jill Freud, 89, said: "This is a very sad day for me. I was married to Clement for 58 years and loved him dearly. I am shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women. I sincerely hope they will now have some peace."

ITV said two of Freud's children had viewed the documentary before broadcast on their mother's behalf.

A spokesman for the Liberal Democrats said: "These allegations are horrific. We are desperately sorry to learn that lives have been ruined by a man whose public face was so greatly at odds to his true character. It has clearly taken a lot of courage for these women to speak out, after a lifetime of having to hide it."