Rolf Harris Trial: Jury Discharged As No Verdicts Reached

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40095612

This now appears to be the end of the series of charges against Harris

[hc4361]

goodgoalie, you may have been to 100s of gigs but the (as example) abused 14 year old girl wouldn't have been and for some people a traumatic experience remains a very vivid memory. For you it would have been just another gig - for her it would be a huge experience and shock.

I have driven many cars in my life time over many thousands of miles but the journey I can remember in every horrifying detail is the one that ended in a fatality.

[Khandro]

The whole business has been a disgraceful shambles and anyone who has gloated over it should be ashamed of themselves.

[jno]

men didn't knit

of course they did. The first knitters' guild in France dates from the 16th century. It was (like other guilds) all male.

[hc4361]

I know I've mentioned it before (probably more than once) but I still don't understand how Bill Wyman has never been at least arrested for the Mandy Smith affair.

[hc4361]

Obviously, jno. They had to teach the women how to do it.

[goodgoalie]

Because she later married him?

[hc4361]

Makes not a jot of difference - she was 14.

[jno]

bien sur. A bit of hommesplaining.

[Mamyalynne]

You'd need the Police to answer that hc - Bill approached them himself.

This from 2013.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rolling-stones/9962776/Ex-Rolling-Stone-Bill-Wyman-reveals-he-approached-police-regarding-sex-claims.html

[hc4361]

I know he did, Mamya. All very odd to me - her mother should have been charged, too.

[naomi24]

jno, maybe they didn't sit around the guillotine. ;o)

[andy-hughes]

khandro - // The whole business has been a disgraceful shambles and anyone who has gloated over it should be ashamed of themselves.

I am sure no-one on here has 'gloated' but from what perspective do you view this as a 'shambles' - that Harris was not convicted, or that he was charged in the first place?