Max Clifford's Turn To Remember What He Was Doing Over 50 Years Ago.

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26463068

Clifford has been famous over the years for being able to fix things for celebrities, provided they have enough money to pay him. Will his undoubted skills in this area help him in the next few weeks ?

[naomi24]

If you're talking to me, Ummmm, yes, really.

[ummmm]

Well i was abused. There was no violence or force...should I have just got over it then?

How far is too far when it comes to groping? Over clothing? Under clothing?

[sherrardk]

Clearly a number of people don't wish to 'put it behind them' and neither does the CPS. What an odd attitude.

[naomi24]

Did you sue, ummmm?

[woofgang]

I don't agree with the "must have been really unattractive if you never got groped" comment. I am sixty now, was a very attractive teenager in the age of very mini miniskirts (though I do say it myself and you wouldn't believe it now) and never once got groped. I do remember that a couple of boys made overtures, I threatened them with violence and that was the end of it. I am a convincing and uninhibited threatener :)

I think, though, that there is, and was then, a difference between a sleazy idiot with wandering hands who needs a good kicking, and someone who believes, or believed then that a certain type of people (young women, young men, children, secretaries, you know the list) are/were "fair game" "asking for it" and so on, and who systematically act/acted on that belief. That's abuse and not something that anyone should have to put behind them.

I suspect that what is coming to court now is a mixture of false and mistaken allegation and genuine victims....

[viv38]

In the Daily Mirror today, his 'crimes' have been listed. One of them was a 12 year old girl. In some he made young girls give him oral sex and in another he made a young girl strip in front of him. What I can't understand is why they have done this with him and didn't do it with Roache and Travis. It makes him look very guilty indeed.

[woofgang]

I don't think the tabloids like him.

[Stargazer]

Viv I believe that the two mentioned got away with it for lack of concrete evidence. ie there was definitely evidence but there were loopholes and clever cross examination by the Defence lawyer confusing the victim as to the accuracy of their memory etc. So doubt crept in.