A man who worked for both the BBC and Independent Television (ITV) has been jailed for his abuse of teenage girls up to 30 years ago. The Guardian has the main story here although sentencing will be announced at the beginning of March 2012, and most likely take into account time served.
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England’s Daily Mirror led in its Sunday 28th July Edition with the news that one of Jimmy Savile’s regular record shops had a list of names uncovered under plaster recently. It’s unclear whether these are victims, but it’s at least 200 more names for the police to trawl through and find out. The Mirror story…
“My middle son told me something the other night that made my stomach twist into a painful knot. He told me that his preschool teacher wasn’t very nice to him, but he hadn’t told me about it before because he knew that I liked her. This may seem like a little thing. But, it isn’t…
It’s been another big general week for the mainstream news schedules, dominated as they are by the Boston terrorist bombing and the shootout in which one of the bombers were killed in America, plus the Fertilizer plant explosion in Texas. Midweek, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest in the UK and that…
This story about men in the UK being sentenced for grooming and then abusing young girls had an interesting fact in it that I wanted to share. The court heard how the men identified vulnerable girls for abuse and then groomed each one of them until they were under the control of the gang. They…
Caspar Walsh has used his semi-regular colunmn with the Guardian newspaper to inform us that since his book was published, his writing workshops in prison have now extended to sex offenders, sharing some of his own experience along the way. His view is interesting, though The Guardian has done the disservice of not allowing comments…
