Jimmy Saville is still alive...

sorry mark!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25917895

Ken Barlow not guilty

So, DLT and Rolf verdicts to come.

KB was a certainty to be not guilty, i would have put money on it. I reckon DLT will be not guilty too, not sure about Rolf

DLT acquitted

no justice

How do you reckon that, exactly?

just being stupid.

seriously though, does the CPS need to take a look itself? That's what the papers will be saying I would guess, though of course it was the same moral panic they created that caused allegations like the DLT/Roache ones to come to court.

Close Shave For Hairy Cornflake

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26322552

Love that the picture looks like it was taken just as they told him.

Quack quack oops.

https://audioboo.fm/boos/602753-quack-quack-oops

given his acquittal for the other offences there might be an argument that the CPS are being willfully stubborn here

Have these unsuccessful cases perhaps been pursued to distract from investigations into police corruption behind Saville's escape from prosecution while he was alive? Just to 'David Peace' it all up, so to speak?

given his acquittal for the other offences there might be an argument that the CPS are being willfully stubborn here

Maybe, yes. They clearly believe they have the evidence to support a prosecution but are maybe still in denial of the power of celebrity in the face of such evidence, even washed up celebrity who was never all that in the first place.

i'm not sure it's about the celebrity only, i've heard lawyers argue that these cases were not strong enough. i think there's a real concern that bringing cases just to be seen to be doing something, or for more nefarious reasons as stevie suggests, is just going to muddy the waters for potential cases with a genuine prospect of conviction in the future

Anyone remember the Times profile of DLT published just before the Yewtree situ blew up? Female interviewer noted that he was "handsy" throughout, and wanted to show her his library of photographs he'd taken of friends' teenaged female daughters. Is behind paywall so I cannot link it.

DLT has a Paywall?

Dave Lee Travis: Look out, Suu Kyi - he's a bit touchy

yup, that's the one.

There’s a half-body sculpture of buttocks, thong and legs near the fridge, opposite a chalk board with “poo bags and Nurofen” written in capitals. Christ.

Hoping those poo bags are for the dog.

poo bags and Nurofen

Rejected line from Dana's 'All Kinds of Everything'.

Tarby walks

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/sinister-jimmy-savile-board-game-6981620#.U0rN0t_VU7Y.twitter

“The instructions suggest it would be harder to finish than Trivial Pursuits,” he said.

“The game’s complexity, and the fact Savile was the biggest sex offender in history, really puts you off from getting the die out...

“I know it’s not like an ouija board that could invoke the spirit of Savile.

“But imagine if this had been a pub quiz board game with Ian Brady’s face on the box?"

keep having to check that this isn't a spoof

'Woman guzzled lager with friends instead of getting help for dying puppy' in the sidebar gave me pause as well

hang on .. the owner is "loaning" it to the museum.

they may want it back at some point !!?

there's a subtext throughout that the owner obviously thinks it'll be worth a few quid when the moral panic's died down

well, yeah.

after all, gary glitter vinyl goes for a fortune these days.

(actually it probably does, but i am not going to check)

keep having to check that this isn't a spoof

I pretty much tossed a coin over whether to post it here or to the shit that looks like an onion article thread

Clifford guilty

Sentenced to eight years.

these cunts are completely loathesome, every aged light entertainment wasteman shuffling to and fro over the last couple of years, wish them nothing but ill, clifford probably the only one deluded enough to self-incriminate but they are all vermin

all this makes me mourn richard whiteley all the keener

The sentencing remarks, au revoir you piece of worthless shit.

http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/sentencing-remarks-hhj-leonard-r-v-clifford.pdf

Rolf Harris sexually assaulted girl of 13, court told

Why would anyone send this card to anyone?

https://twitter.com/CourtNewsUK/status/466284842767093760/photo/1

Rolf found guilty on all counts, and the judge hints he'll do time.

Guessed as much..

Amber was all, like, "nooo., I wanted him to do my portrait one day"

I said he's already done Lily Cole, and she said that's why..

(Summary: More people were hoping it wasn't true about Rolf than any other one)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/it-was-a-relief-when-i-got-the-knighthoodbecause-it-gotme-off-the-hook-an-exclusive-interview-with-savile-from-1990-has-a-new-meaning-9571057.html

uggghhh
"Now you, watching from afar, might say ‘Look at those young girls throwing themselves at him’, whereas in actual fact it’s exactly the opposite. I am of no interest to them, except in a purely platonic way."

"He is very keen on reason, very distrustful of emotion: he boasts often of his “logic” and his membership of Mensa." -- early Redditor

(A bit far? I suppose so. Posting it anyway to regret it later.)

Xpost I dunno, any 'old bloke' DJ would have said much the same thing. Apart from deflecting (or not answering) the question "Yes, but would you be interested in them?" there's nothing terribly 'obviously evil' in what got written..

Touring the Stoke Mandeville wards with him is a disconcerting experience: when he coos over a young woman paraplegic “A-ha, now I can have my way with you, my dear!” one can only pray that she appreciates the joke.

"One can only hope that he is only joking, this time"

"When she died she was all mine. The best five days of my life were spent with the Duchess when she was dead. She looked marvellous. She belonged to me. It’s wonderful, is death."

AAAAAGHHHHHHHHHH