Only eight charges after eighteen months trawling!!

Only two women at the moment but this advert might bring one or two more out of the woodwork

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27720875

And it looks, from the ages and the years, that neither of the two are the Savile/Duncroft accusers, who apparently "have not been believed".

Paul Gadd was arrested due to the allegations made by Karin Ward of fictional orgies with Jimmy Savile & Freddie Starr at BBC TVC on Clunk Click. Ward, born in 1958, was widely reported as being 14 in March/April 1974. Clunk Click was filmed at the BBC Shepherd's Bush Theatre not TVC. Gary Glitter & Freddie Starr did not appear together on the same edition of Clunk Click. None of those three indisputable facts seemed to bother The Metropolitan Police, not even the BBC who issued suicidal apology immediately.

Whatever one thinks of Mr Gadd, or indeed Chris Denning, is it another sinister legal development here at play. Give a dog a bad name, it would seem, and it doesn't matter a joy as to whether or not the criminal turns over a new leaf or not - they will keep coming after you with historic allegations and, what with good character and reputation seeming to be the main defence in court, are effectively unable to defend themselves adequately. So the short initial sentence becomes effectively a life sentence. Lying low and keeping out of trouble isn't good enough anymore.

How will he be able to get a fair trial, GUILTY until proven innocent in any sexual court case.

so after 40 years 2 complainants have come forward and this time they cannot claim GG was "so powerful" and partied at Chequers with Maggie, advised Charles on his marriage and all the other claptrap we have heard to date.

This is man who has been reviled for the last 10 years and still- they didn't come forward.

Obviously the Duncroft liars were not believed (which bodes well for Freddie Starr- hopefully he is still suing)...is this a case of these two told totally believable stories as opposed to the others who were just too wacky to believe?

I have a funny feeling that this case will fall apart but not before GG has been dragged through the mill.

British law has become a joke and a disgrace.

Love it if GG sued her for slander.

hedda wrote:
so after 40 years 2 complainants have come forward and this time they cannot claim GG was "so powerful" and partied at Chequers with Maggie, advised Charles on his marriage and all the other claptrap we have heard to date.

This is man who has been reviled for the last 10 years and still- they didn't come forward.

Obviously the Duncroft liars were not believed (which bodes well for Freddie Starr- hopefully he is still suing)...is this a case of these two told totally believable stories as opposed to the others who were just too wacky to believe?

I have a funny feeling that this case will fall apart but not before GG has been dragged through the mill.

British law has become a joke and a disgrace.
Great points. And even more so, why didn't these "girls" come forward following the computer images or 1999 ex-girlfriend/newspaper set-up or the Vietnam stuff? They didn't, so what was their problem, back then? Beggars belief.