Some underage girls must take the blame for abuse, Eddy Shah claims Prosecutor Robert Colover has been suspended from prosecuting sexual offence cases pending a review by the Crown Prosecution Service after the "inappropriate comments." The sentencing judge, Nigel Peters QC, is being investigated by the Office for Judicial Complaints for remarks he made before he gave Neil Wilson an eight-month suspended sentence and allowed him to walk free from court. In his first in-depth interview since his own court case, Mr Shah described charges of rape relating to girls under 16 who "throw themselves" at celebrities as "a technical thing." He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "Rape was a technical thing - below a certain age. But these girls were going out with pop groups and becoming groupies and throwing themselves at them. Young girls and young men have always wanted a bit of excitement when they are young. They want to appear adult and do adult things. Mr Shah was asked if he thought the Scotland Yard's Operation Yewtree investigation into Savile and others is in danger of becoming a witch hunt. I think it's developing into that - it's easy policing and it's easy prosecutions. It's based on emotion most of it," he said. It's going back to the witch hunt theory. I'd rather be dunked in water for two minutes and if I came out alive I was not guilty, and if I was dead I was guilty. In a civilised society there's got to be more checks and balances before these sort of accusations are used. It's great headlines in papers, it's great to talk about these things. And it's emotional stuff and the emotion always falls on the side of the person who is supposed to have been raped. Mr Shah said he had been helping a "very well-known person" charged by Operation Yewtree investigators deal with the "horrible, horrible feeling" of "emptiness about everything" that he had experienced when he was accused of rape. He also revealed for the first time that he had suicidal thoughts during his trial. "Every night I worked out different ways of committing suicide to help me go to sleep, actually," he said. I was very low, the only time I was lower than that in my life was when we were told (Mr Shah's wife) Jennifer had three months to live all those years ago. You cannot describe the depths you go to. You just want to fall down and never get up again, you think 'maybe the stress will kill me and that'll sort the problem out'. I wasn't frightened of dying, let me put it that way. Mr Shah, whose birth name is Selim Shah, founded the now-defunct Today newspaper in 1986. After clashes with unions, he was the first person to invoke Margaret Thatcher's anti-union laws. He later went on to become the author of several novels.