Former 6th Doctor’s View On Savile
Actor Colin Baker, the 6th Doctor of Dr Who fame, filmed a mini-episode with a fan via Jim’ll Fix It and gave his impressions of Jimmy Savile during filming to the Daily Mail here.
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Charges Dropped Against Bernie Fine, Former Assistant Basketball Coach
In a fairly quiet note last week, the investigation into accusations by two former Syracuse University ball boys against former assistant coach Bernie Fine was dropped, without any charges being filed. Coming on the heels of the Jerry Sandusky case, this seemingly similar case got lots of national media attention in the US when the…
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Daily Mail Mistaken CSA ID General Features
The Daily Mail published and updated its view on the mistaken identification of the wrong politician in the North Wales child abuse scandal last Friday, updating it on Monday 12th November. That article is here. This first article from last week was not the hatchet job on Stephen Messham implied by one of the Independent on Sunday’s articles linked…
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Inquest into Brit Paedophile Murdered in 2008
The Daily Mail reported on the inquest regarding the murder of a convicted paedophile in 2008 which remains unsolved. That article from the weekend is here.
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Independent on Sunday Articles on Wales and the BBC CSA Cases
Some of the best journalism of past weekend on the English and Welsh child abuse scandals ofthe past 40 years came from the Independent on Sunday. In addition to its own retrospective on the North Wales Jillings report (here in case the link didn’t appear in the previous story) they also profiled a family of…
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Mid-1990s Unpublished North Wales CSA Care Home Report Rediscovered
The Jillings report, the first concluding document from the original investigation into systematic abuse at Welsh children’s care homes, has been rediscovered in council archives. This follows public demand for it to be fully released last week. The article is here with last Thursday’s quoted demand for the report in the story crawl at the end. The Independent on…