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…
Staff working for the ex BBC Director General Mark Thompson were allegedly warned about Jimmy Savile on two occasions by two separate sources, Sky News has reported. Their summary from Sunday 28th October, which preceded Savile’s great-niece’s disclosure later the same day, is here.
Sky News reported on the evening of Sunday 28th October that a relative of Jimmy Savile has disclosed and claimed some family members might have known but also turned a blind eye due to the presenter and DJ’s fame. That story is here.
At the same time as Gary Glitter’s arrest, Childline founder Esther Rantzen reported that she receieved further disclosures by email after the first Independent Television (ITV1) documentary was screened nearly a month ago, and passed them on to police. That story is here at the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday site.
An ex-Conservative minister has claimed to have seen evidence that an aide to Margaret Thatcher committed child abuse against children in a care home in North Wales for 20 years betweeen the 1960s and 1980s. The boss of the main establishement was convicted of child abuse in the mid-1990s and another former Tory claimed the aide was a…
Ex pop star and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter was re-arrested over the weekend by detectives investigating child abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile and others. The BBC has the story here. – CBG
