Emma Thompson pulls her name from Polanski petition

November 8, 7:43 PMLA Legal ExaminerJames Hirsen

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Emma Thompson at the screening of 'An Education' (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

Actress and double Oscar winner Emma Thompson has erased her name from a terrible document. The actress removed her name from the petition that protested the attempt to extradite Roman Polanski to Los Angeles.

Polanski skipped out of the jurisdiction prior to sentencing in an unlawful sex with a minor case that took place three decades ago.

The shameful list contains top Hollywood stars and directors including Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen, who have senselessly supported a guy who did deplorable things to a 13-year-old girl.

According to the U.K. Independent Thompson was influenced by a meeting the “Sense and Sensibility” actress had with an Exeter University student named Caitlin Hayward-Tapp.

"It turned out she was very willing to hear what I had to say,” Hayward-Tapp told the Independent.

“She [Thompson] said she knows Roman Polanski and that she had had calls from friends asking her to sign the petition. She knows what a terrible early life he [Polanski] had," the student added.

“She said she had already been thinking a lot about the petition, as others had expressed their dismay at her signing it. We talked for 15 minutes, and by the end she said she would get her name removed.”

Hayward-Tapp ought to come to the states and have a word with the other misguided stars that placed their names on that misbegotten list.