www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/clare-s...at-uk-detention-cent

The UK government is about to deport five women who have experienced or witnessed sexual abuse at Yarl's Wood detention centre, according to the campaign group Movement for Justice.

A spokesman for the group, protesting outside the Home Office this afternoon, said:

“Five of the eight women facing deportation to Pakistan tonight have experienced or witnessed sexual harassment from male officers in Yarl's Wood. The attempt to deport the witnesses is part of the Home Office's desperate attempts to cover up the scandal."

It would not be the first time. In 2009, the Home Office expedited the deportation of a five year old boy who was sexually abused at Yarl's Wood. His mother's pleas for a specialist’s opinion, for therapeutic help for her son, for an independent investigation, were all refused.

Or an ITV personality, Hedda - the bigger the show, the greater the fame, the more likely that false allegations are made.

JK2006 wrote:
Or an ITV personality, Hedda - the bigger the show, the greater the fame, the more likely that false allegations are made.

That's misleading in the case of Yewtree - ITV was pretty much ring-fenced, as if in the 60s and 70s the BBC was a real-life Satyricon whilst over at ITV studios everyone was reading the Bible. It was and remains an anti-BBC operation, helped in the early days, of course, by ITV. Scandalous and yet I haven't yet seen one supposedly independent newspaper discuss that bias.

Other investigations are, as you say, true to the old pattern, with Corrie always a favourite whenever the police get a bit itchy. It's usually every ten years or so that a new obsession with that soap begins.

The Savile fiasco certainly prompted or accelerated all the Northern allegations - Stuart Hall, Michael Le Vell, William Roach etc etc... ITV - by broadcasting the vile Exposure programme - seriously damaged its own flagship soap.

Coronation Street has always been the gift that keeps on giving for the police. Was the Len Fairclough/Peter Adamson case the first? But I've no sympathy for ITV, they shamelessly seized on an anti-BBC documentary by that creep, and now it's karma time. Where are the brave ITV exposes on the likes of Hughie Green, Jess Yates, Benny Hill or Jimmy Edwards? They're all dead, after all. Surely ITN-shareholder the Daily Mail ought to be waving its simple sword of truth about over this. Maybe someone will suddenly 'discover' the Carlton Christmas VT tapes and all of the other, very easy to access, 'damning' material that shows how DLT-style behaviour was all too common over on commercial broadcasting.