Narita Bahra KC marked the First 100 Years by becoming the first Female Criminal Silk to Begin the “Lethbridge Gloves” Tradition on Silks Day on 11 March 2019.
Narita Bahra KC was honoured to carry with her a pair of white silk gloves to the Silks swearing in ceremony, to mark the centenary this year of women being allowed to enter the legal profession.
The gloves also pay tribute to the criminal barrister Nemone Lethbridge, who was not able to become a silk. Now in her 80s, Lethbridge represented the infamous Kray twins in their early days. But was forced to leave the Bar for almost 20 years after it became public that she was married to a convicted murderer — Jimmy “Ginger” O’Connor.
Nemone Lethbridge sent a message to accompany the gloves, reading: “Congratulations centenary silk! Onwards and upwards forever! With love and admiration!”
Narita Bahra KC’s portrait was issued in The Times: “It was an absolute honour to carry the gloves, I never thought that I — an Asian woman from a state school — would be taking silk”.
Nemone explained in a recent episode of Desert Island, that Narita’s wearing of the gloves marked a new tradition, from therein, where they are now handed over to a new female criminal silk annually to keep Nemone’s story alive.
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