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new celeb arrest
Word is that Dave Lee Travis has just been arrested in the aftermath of the Savile scandal. He follows Gary Glitter and Freddie Starr who were both taken in for questioning and then released in the last few weeks. Strikes me the police are only arresting these people to please the Media. Nothing will ever come of these arrests otherwise as the "victims" - genuine as they may well be - don't have any evidence against these celebs, so nothing is proveable in court. Your thoughts please
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Let's hope DLT's accusers are a little more on the money than the person who wrongly identified Lord McAlpine.
There is evidence which could support a prosecution in the form of the testimony of the alleged victim. That is all that may be necessary. It is a popular misconception that there has to be more than one witness or independent witnesses to secure a conviction. Whether the CPS consider the testimony of the alleged victim alone to be strong enough to support a realistic chance of conviction, however, is another matter.
There is evidence which could support a prosecution in the form of the testimony of the alleged victim. That is all that may be necessary. It is a popular misconception that there has to be more than one witness or independent witnesses to secure a conviction. Whether the CPS consider the testimony of the alleged victim alone to be strong enough to support a realistic chance of conviction, however, is another matter.
//ITV said "appropriate disciplinary action" had been taken after a presenter inadvertently broadcast a list of names of alleged child abusers taken from the internet. //
Would that be in respect of the silver/grey haired presenter - and if so I wonder what form the ' appropritae disciplinary action ' took
Would that be in respect of the silver/grey haired presenter - and if so I wonder what form the ' appropritae disciplinary action ' took
I'd be really careful about naming names until they are given officially. To save flipnflap getting a knock on the door at 7am one morning by the police, it might be better if this thread was taken down?
Unless, of course, the name has been given officially? Has it?
There's going to be a few more being contacted after falsely naming Lord McAlpine.
Unless, of course, the name has been given officially? Has it?
There's going to be a few more being contacted after falsely naming Lord McAlpine.
As I understand it, during the course of the investigation at the N. Wales Care Home, the victim was shown a photograph of a man who he recognised as his abuser. The Police then wrongly named this man as Lord McAlpine (although it does seem that it may have been someone with a similar name), to the victim and to the media.
The person who wrongly identified Lord McAlpine is well known:
http:// www.tel egraph. ...-not -my-att acker.h tml
He has had the decency to admit his mistake. A number of "celebreties" who repeated the allegations on various social media sites have not been so forthcoming.
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He has had the decency to admit his mistake. A number of "celebreties" who repeated the allegations on various social media sites have not been so forthcoming.
Steve Messham claimed that it was the policeman who showed him pictures of his abusers who identified one of them as McAlpine.
This seems unlikely to me, to put it politely. He's either lying, McAlpine is lying or there is a policeman somewhere who for some reason wrongly named the person in the photo.
Additionally, the person that the MP Tom Watson refers to in relation to the Bryn Estyn abuse is probably a different person, not McAlpine anyway.
There's a lot more digging to be done there I think, but of course many have now been scared off from doing so by the threat of legal action.
As I said before it's hardly surprising Jimmy Savile got away with what he did when we see this.
This seems unlikely to me, to put it politely. He's either lying, McAlpine is lying or there is a policeman somewhere who for some reason wrongly named the person in the photo.
Additionally, the person that the MP Tom Watson refers to in relation to the Bryn Estyn abuse is probably a different person, not McAlpine anyway.
There's a lot more digging to be done there I think, but of course many have now been scared off from doing so by the threat of legal action.
As I said before it's hardly surprising Jimmy Savile got away with what he did when we see this.