Stuart Hall...Its a lockup.

[Hardy]

Guess we'll see you in court, sport.
Guess we'll see you in court.

[Main Street]

Isn't this a re-arrest for Rolf? I think he was (at least) questioned last November.
He's out on bail according to aptly named, Kangaroo Court.
http://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2013/03/30/rolf-harris-arrested-in-uk-sex-scandal-police-investigation/

[All of a Sludden]

BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has admitted 14 charges of indecently assaulting girls including one aged nine.

The 83-year-old of Wilmslow, Cheshire, pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to the offences, involving 13 victims, which occurred between 1967 and 1985.

Three charges of indecent assault and one of rape will lie on the court file.

His lawyer said Hall apologised to his victims and added: "He is all too aware that his disgrace is complete."

He has been bailed until sentencing on 17 June.

A BBC spokesperson said: "The BBC is appalled by the disgraceful actions of Stuart Hall and we would like to express our sympathy to his victims. We will continue to work with the police to assist them in this and any other inquiries they are making."

'Opportunistic predator'

Hall admitted the offences last month but they could not be revealed due to reporting restrictions.

Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West, Nazir Afzal, described Hall as an "opportunistic predator".

He added: "We prosecuted Stuart Hall because the evidence of the victims clearly established a pattern of behaviour that was unlawful and for which no innocent explanation could be offered.

AdvertisementDCI Neil Esseen and Nazir Afzal from the CPS spoke outside the court

"His victims did not know each other and almost two decades separated the first and last assaults but almost all of the victims, including one who was only nine at the time of the assault, provided strikingly similar accounts.

"Whether in public or private, Hall would first approach under friendly pretences and then bide his time until the victim was isolated.

"I would like to thank the victims for having had the bravery to come forward. This case clearly shows that the victims of abuse will not be denied justice by the passage of time and abusers will be held to account."

Mr Afzal said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) would not be proceeding with the rape charge as the woman who made the allegation no longer wished to give evidence in light of the guilty pleas.

Football commentator

The court heard in the 1980s Hall molested a nine-year-old girl by putting his hand up her clothing.

Court Ten at Preston Crown Court was so packed for the short hearing, the police officers present had to sit on the jury bench.

Stuart Hall cut an elderly figure, allowed to sit alongside his barristers rather than being made to sit inside the dock.

He only spoke to confirm his details, and sat impassively during proceedings, as his lawyer told the court that Stuart Hall was sorry.

He also kissed a 13-year-old girl on the lips after he said to her: "People need to show thanks in other ways."

On another occasion in the 1970s he fondled the breast of a girl aged 16 or 17, the court was told.

Hall was initially arrested in December and made a statement labelling the claims "pernicious, callous, cruel and above all spurious".

He has been a familiar face and voice in British broadcasting for half a century, and was awarded an OBE in the 2012 New Year Honours.

The former It's A Knockout presenter was working as a football commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live and wrote a weekly sport column for the Radio Times magazine until his arrest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22379286

[T Fearon]

Is it too late to play the Joker?

[Gaffer]

Boom Boom it's Jimmy Tarbuck !!!!!

[All of a Sludden]

Jimmy Tarbuck could be getting that Live From Her Majesty's gig back sooner than he thought.

[NAG1]

In all seriousness what was going on with these guys that they thought that they could get away with this type of behaviour?

[5 Sams]

Who's next I wonder...they all seem to be getting picked off one by one???

[Main Street]

Eddy Shah, today is his day.

Eddy Shah had sex with schoolgirl, court told
Former newspaper proprietor, on trial at the Old Bailey, denies raping underage girl during the early 1990s

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/07/eddie-shah-court

[All of a Sludden]

Who's next I wonder...they all seem to be getting picked off one by one???

There have been a lot of rumours doing the rounds since the Savile story broke. I won't mention any names, but if you Play Your Cards Right, I am sure someone will give you a hint.

[orangeman]

Anything for a pair ?  Deballed hopefully.

[Milltown Row2]

Will there be a Brucie bonus?

[Shamrock Shore]

Ah now - it's easy to start a rumour on any 'entertainer' over 70 and say he was at it.

FFS - they all couldn't have been.

I did hear Bob Monkhouse had a fondess for young rent boys but he's dead so it's safe from a libel point of view.

[seafoid]

In all seriousness what was going on with these guys that they thought that they could get away with this type of behaviour?

The world was very different in the early 70s.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/06/in-defence-of-the-1970s

These men, born in the 1920s, were a product of more repressive times and they were taking advantage of the sexual revolution, regarding all younger women as easy meat for exploitation. The younger you were the more attractive and more powerless. Male predators could embarrass and bully you into believing that fending off unwanted advances was something your grandma had to do to protect a modesty and virginity now out of date.

These all-hands blokes of light entertainment, fumbling and groping and patting and nudging, standing too close, kissing on the lips instead of the cheek, fondling your knee under the table, or getting your back against the wall and lunging, did not decide of their own accord to stop. A decade which is now remembered for being the height of the sexual sleaze scandal in the BBC was also the one in which feminists began to ask whether liberation was worth being pawed at and thrust into without consent.

[seafoid]

Guess we'll see you in court, sport.
Guess we'll see you in court.

so we tanned his hide when he was alive Clive
We tanned his hide when he was alive
That's his reputation in the shed, dead
That's his reputation in the shed.