By a dead man I notice... quite ghastly and three cheers to the media for highlighting it. Mind you, the media seems not to wonder why all this sudden historical abuse is getting discovered. And they dare not hint that it might be possible the claims have been exaggerated or inflated or even, God forbid, invented. Not even unintentionally. I suppose the media knows that memories do not ever change, that media does not encourage or simply provoke delusion. The media knows more than us uninformed individuals. And it is, after all, a good story.

We should encourage compensation to these poor abused old men. A far better use of our tax monies than hospitals, schools, police, benefits...

Let's shut down the NHS, police stations (and the BBC while we're about it) and give our tax monies and licence fees to all the poor, abused elderly who are suddenly remembering they were goosed by a vicar, doctor, foster parent, comedian or prison officer 45 years ago when they were 15.

That makes sense, doesn't it? Thank God we're all so balanced.

JK2006 wrote:
By a dead man I notice... quite ghastly and three cheers to the media for highlighting it. Mind you, the media seems not to wonder why all this sudden historical abuse is getting discovered. And they dare not hint that it might be possible the claims have been exaggerated or inflated or even, God forbid, invented. Not even unintentionally. I suppose the media knows that memories do not ever change, that media does not encourage or simply provoke delusion. The media knows more than us uninformed individuals. And it is, after all, a good story.

We should encourage compensation to these poor abused old men. A far better use of our tax monies than hospitals, schools, police, benefits...

Let's shut down the NHS, police stations (and the BBC while we're about it) and give our tax monies and licence fees to all the poor, abused elderly who are suddenly remembering they were goosed by a vicar, doctor, foster parent, comedian or prison officer 45 years ago when they were 15.

That makes sense, doesn't it? Thank God we're all so balanced.

Well said Mr King.

Thank you Patt; though let us never forget what a great man (Wilde?) once said "sarcasm is the lowest form of wit".

JK2006 wrote:
Thank you Patt; though let us never forget what a great man (Wilde?) once said "sarcasm is the lowest form of wit".

Nothing like a good old dose of compensation to cure amnesia.

headlines screaming PAEDOPHILE RING but the claimant says he was 17.

what part of the Age of Consent do they not understand ?

should they also be saying PAGE 3 TOPLESS PAEDOPHILE PHOTOS for your garage wall?.

no link to Sir Jimmy Savile OBE yet.

still time though.

JK2006 wrote:
Thank you Patt; though let us never forget what a great man (Wilde?) once said "sarcasm is the lowest form of wit".

Wilde was wrong. Sarcasm is often very funny.


I have never understood the purpose of compensation at all. It is hardly going to put things right is it?

One idea is to make compensation ONLY payable to psychiatrists for treatment of poor, damaged victims. Claims would drop very fast.

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
I have never understood the purpose of compensation at all. It is hardly going to put things right is it?

No - but it does pay for a nice flat screen TV when you are on the dole !

Strange how this is in the news now. Neville Husband was convicted back in 2003, and £500,000 in compensation was paid out in 2009. Why has it taken so long for these current claims to come out, since the original case was fairly high profile and surely everyone who had been abused would have come forward at the time.

Andy wrote:
and £500,000 in compensation was paid out in 2009.


........ a nice flat screen TV in EVERY room !

I'm sure they will have pissed it all away by now.

Isn't it amazing that within a couple of weeks since a BBC documentary about abuse, over 200 people who have never previously mentioned it, have suddenly remembered that they had been abused whilst at Medomsley Detention Centre (by two people who are conveniently dead):

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-26047112

Andy wrote:
Isn't it amazing that within a couple of weeks since a BBC documentary about abuse, over 200 people who have never previously mentioned it, have suddenly remembered that they had been abused whilst at Medomsley Detention Centre (by two people who are conveniently dead):

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-26047112

I'm sure I was there ! - memory fading - I'm sure I was !

10% cut (of the compo) to anyone who can help me remember (ie back me up)?

Here are some curious reports concerning one of the men central to the trial of Neville Husband, cook at Medomsley detention centre. It involves apparently finding sexually explicit photos of a city council leader in the street, photos reportedly stolen in a burglary, handing them in to the council and the ensuing consequences.

24 March 2002 Judge grants smear ban

18 June 2002 York history lecturer on bail after police arrest

30 September 2004 Council blunder over sex photos

18 November 2004 How to get your complaint across

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