Stephen Messham made one of his first public statements since last week’s mistaken identification of an ex-Conservative Party politician, and the Daily Mail’s hatchet job, when talking to BBC Wales’s Week In Week Out programme. Since this is currently unavailable to other regions on BBC’s iPlayer, the news website has the summary here. Also last week Sky News…
Lord McApline, the former Conservative politician wrongly accused on Twitter of sexual abuse in North Wales on the BBC Newsnight programme, settled with the BBC and was awarded GBP 185,000 Sterling or just under $293,500 plus legal costs. His legal team noted that it would be licence fee payers’ money funding the settlement and as such,…
A former Anglican bishop and retired priest were separately arrested on Tuesday 13th November as police investigated child abuse. The BBC has the story here and if the video is unavailable, click the story in the crawl below the text here to read further details.
Historical allegations of indecent assault against boys in care were renewed on Tuesday 13th November against a Member of Parliament who was in the forerunner to the modern Liberal Democrat party in England. The BBC has the story here.
Also last week, the Savile enquiry produced two new arrests, one last Thursday here and another last weekend, here. The latter arrest followed the producer’s appearances on various programmes regarding Savile.
Just before George Entwhistle’s resignation, The Daily Mail rounded up everything to date to last Friday 9th November including the full statement of denial from the wrongly identified ex-politician. That article is here and scroll to the bottom of the page for the full statement and retrospective video to last Friday night.
