Savile Extracts from 1970s Autobiography
The Daily Mail collected some extracts from one of the disgraced BBC Presenter’s memoirs in an article from the Mail on Sunday. That is here.
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Dead English Actor Accused In Another BBC Abuse Allegation
Actor Leonard Rossiter, star of English TV Comedies Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, was accused last night of witnessing the second of two sexual attacks on a TV extra aged 18 in 1968. This was before those two hit comedies in the following decades before his death in 1984. The Sun led with this…
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BBC/Children In Need Telethon Governor Banned Savile In 1990s
A former BBC and Children In Need Governor from the late 1990s took the decision to ban Jimmy Savile from further appearances on the appeal’s main show around the time that his biggest show, Jim’ll Fix It, was nearing its conclusion. The BBC has the story with video clips here.
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UK Police Deluged by 4000 Social Media-Related Complaints
It’s not about child abuse but we have posted stories about the effects of blogging and social media communication in the past, and The Mail on Sunday printed another one again today regarding police in the UK, who have three arrests a day stemming from a block of 4000 complaints about online harrassment, trolling or…
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English Comedian “Willing To Talk To Police” about CSA Allegations
Freddy Starr, the English comedian whose name was caught up in the Jimmy Savile case without any formal charges being brought by police, presented himself to police to answer questions regarding parallel accusations of indecent assault against one of the women re-interviewed about abuse by Jimmy Savile. He claims his lawyer was told that the…
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Annual BBC Telethon Under Pressure To Increase Abuse Charity Donations
Children In Need (CiN) is the annual winter appeal of over 80 years’ standing. After every November appeal the final tally is redistributed to other charities “on the ground” to help children. The Sunday Express reported today that the charity’s trustees are facing pressure to increase the amount of money going to charities related to child abuse. It’s…