It's Getting Busy In The Courts

[sir.prize]

Wonder how more will follow the William Roache verdict.
Currently:
Stuart Hall - Broadcaster. Charged and found guilty.
Andrew Lancel – Actor (Corrie). Charged and acquitted.
Michael Le Vell – Actor (Corrie). Charged and acquitted.
William Roache – Actor (Corrie). Charged and acquitted.
William De’Ath – BBC Producer. Arrested then dismissed.
Ted Beston - BBC radio producer. Arrested then dismissed.
Mike Osman – DJ. Arrested then dismissed.
Jim Davidson – Comedian. Arrested then dismissed.
Paul Gambaccini – Broadcaster. Arrested but remains uncharged.
Freddie Starr – Comedian. Arrested but remains uncharged.
Jimmy Tarbuck – Comedian. Arrested but remains uncharged.
Rolf Harris - Broadcaster. Charged awaiting trial.
Max Clifford - Publicist. Charged awaiting trial.
Dave Lee Travis - Broadcaster. Charged on trial.

[Peter Pedant]

dismissed I regret can also mean employment terminated but that is not what I think you mean

not proceeded with.

I think this is gonna go the way of satanic abuse and witchcraft trials...

[ToraToraTora]

No idea if these guys are guilty or not but it's starting to look like a compo band wagon/Lawyer feeding frenzy!

[sir.prize]

No doubt plenty of headline fodder for the tabloids.

[FredPuli43]

And meanwhile there was a case on the news today of a school teacher whose assaults on boys were in 1959. He was convicted. Whether the accused is famous or not, the case is only as good as the evidence turns out to be. Sometimes, even after a long lapse of time, it is so good that the defendant pleads guilty. What is reprehensible is arresting and bailing defendants, whoever they are, and leaving them on bail for months without charge. If there is a reasonable suspicion, sufficient to justify an arrest, it might be thought that that suspicion would be confirmed or not within a couple of weeks. As it is, and this practice is highlighted because the suspects are famous, it seems that there is an arrest and bail while the police hunt around for any scraps of evidence. If the suspicion is founded on a woman's complaint, why on Earth can her statement not form the basis of an immediate charge? If she's not to be believed then don't charge.

[sherrardk]

Stuart Hall wasn't found guilty, he admitted it.

[Booldawg]

If a verdict of not guilty can be reached with the Chuckle Brothers as a defence witnesses then I should imagine theres not a great deal of meat to the bones.

[Canary42]

You missed one.

Jimmy Savile. Judged and found guilty by the Mucky Media without trial.

[sir.prize]

. . . I also omitted (deliberately) the Leader of the Gang.

[sir.prize]

Booldawg - you refer to a totally different trial.

[Hopkirk]

Oh, Canary, do you think JS was innocent?

[sir.prize]

Three Coronation Street actors hauled before the courts.

Three Coronation Street actors acquitted.

Did someone get it wrong?

[sara3]

so when you say "currently", you're counting 11/14 that aren't actually "busy (or otherwise) in the courts"?

[emmie]

Savile's MO was well known, some of the colleagues, have admitted as such, that there were hundreds of victims many of whom were very young indeed.

[FredPuli43]

Being a Coronation Street actor certainly helps.

[sir.prize]

Correct, sara

[emmie]

if he is remotely guilty, and i know he has been acquitted, then his victims must feel pretty lousy..

[FredPuli43]

"In these situations, there are no winners.." said William Roache after being acquitted. That is a curious remark. Read one way, it suggests that he knows that there was something in the allegations but not enough, as it turned out, to get him convicted.

[emmie]

that;s the kicker, truth to the allegations, but can't be proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

[sir.prize]

You could be right Fred - that is why CPS decided after careful consideration of the facts that it was correct to prosecute. But again they were wrong.