BUNGLING former head of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders has been made a Dame to add to her 1.8million pension.
The former CPS chief left the 200,000-a-year role last year to join a private law firm after overseeing a raft of errors as the nations senior lawyer.
Under her tenure, a review into 3,637 rape cases saw 47 halted last year when it emerged key evidence had been kept from the defence.
She was also urged to quit in 2016 when the 30million Operation Elveden probe into allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials saw not one journalist convicted.
Her handling of Operation Yewtree into sex abuse allegations was also blasted after several celebrities were cleared.
Sam Armstrong, who was acquitted of rape when she was DPP, said: They can make her a Dame but they can never undo the shame that Saunders brought to the office of Director of Public Prosecutions.
Tory MP Nigel Evans, who was cleared of sexual assault and rape in 2014, blasted: She got it wrong during her period when she was the DPP and she has wrongly been rewarded for it.
She believed the false allegations and people are still suffering while she is toasting her damehood with champagne.
Meanwhile, health chiefs lined up to hail NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens, who was knighted.
Lord David Prior, chair of NHS England, said he had made a unique and vital contribution.
NHS Improvement said he was one of our greatest public servants.
The Royal Society of Medicine called him outstanding in an impossible job.
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