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out of the woodwork they come with pathetic tales as a middle aged TV presenter (she looks younger) fulminates that a man asked her out somewhat demolishing the claim he was a paedo
hedda wrote: out of the woodwork they come with pathetic tales as a middle aged TV presenter (she looks younger) fulminates that a man asked her out somewhat demolishing the claim he was a paedo
At least the Mail quotes victim Rolf in his own words:
"I understand we live in the post truth era and know few will want to know what really happened during the three criminal trials I faced – it's easier to condemn me and liken me to people like Saville and Glitter.
I was convicted of offences I did not commit in my first trial. That is not just my view but the view of the Court of Appeal who overturned one of my convictions. I had already served the prison sentence by the time of the appeal.
I changed my legal team after the first trial, and I was told that if the truth was out there, William (Merritt) would find it and he did.
The evidence he found proved my innocence to two subsequent juries.
I'd be in prison serving a sentence for crimes I did not commit if it were not for William's investigation. It is difficult to put into words the injustice that I feel."
Inviting her up to his room to show her his wobble board and extra leg? Not very original. If he said this, and she didn't just make it up from basic knowledge of his performances, they were both adults and surely she could have just told him to piss off. At least the article gives William Merritt and his book a mention.
Another media bunny who has bounced back into the limelight with her story of abuse by Rolf Harris is Vanessa Feltz, giving an interview to TalkTV. She has introduced a new element, claiming that she used a blue cushion, visible in the photo of them together on the bed where she did the interview for the Big Breakfast, to separate herself from him. Her story still doesn't add up. With her ample form filling out a long and what looks to be figure-hugging dress, which she says was heavily beaded, how was he supposed to have, as she claims, gathered up the thick material and inched his hand up her leg to her thigh and knicker elastic, all in view of the cameras (with footage of this never emerging)? In the photo, they're both reclining on their side facing each other, her with her legs tucked up under her and pointing away from him. So how was he supposed to have reached her leg in the first place, without reaching over her? The only way he could have got near her leg would have been if she was lying flat on her back or was reclining on her other side and had her back to him.
The photo is shown in both of these links, the first the recent TalkTV interview, the second an Express article/video interview from several years back where, as with her other previous interviews, she makes no mention of the cushion.
There used to be a video on YouTube of her at a premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and she was interviewed on the red carpet with an anecdote about how she'd supposedly been conned by people who worked on her roof. I suspect that she may have a ready anecdote for every occasion.
Vanessa Feltz used to go my sister's pub, she said 'Vanessa Feltz is one obnoxious cow' all my sister's do make me laugh they try hide their Irish accents but it comes out when they are angry.
Green Man wrote: Vanessa Feltz used to go my sister's pub, she said 'Vanessa Feltz is one obnoxious cow' all my sister's do make me laugh they try hide their Irish accents but it comes out when they are angry.
The media does seem to have some unpleasant people. Like Amanda Platell, who wrote an article about being Rolf Harris's friend when he was arrested, then wrote an article about being groomed by him when he was convicted.
Camilla Long is another one, always bitching about someone in her Sunday Times column. She put out an article about DLT when he was facing allegations saying that when she met him to interview him she didn't think there was a part of her body he didn't touch (clearly exaggeration, or she'd have gone to police to report assault) and that she had been giggling with fear while interviewing him (completely absurd). She had gone to his trial and he had protested about her being in the courtroom. She's interviewed in this BBC report, looking over her glasses to try to look serious.
Some people in the media really are the lowest of the low. TalkTV reporters, instead of interviewing William Merritt about his book (an interview with Mike Graham was apparently scheduled last year, then dropped at the last minute and never rescheduled), are interviewing each other and spreading vile rumours about Rolf Harris, even worse than the claims made in court. They're also saying there's a famous abuser who hasn't been outed publicly (and who everyone in the media supposedly knows about but for some reason can't report to police).
And complaining about media reports or trying to get information to journalists seems to be a complete waste of time. Individual journalists seem not to have public e-mail addresses and the feedback e-mail addresses simply generate "we're too busy to read e-mails" automatic replies.
Now Ulrika Jonsson has claimed in her column in The Sun that Rolf Harris groped her. The same Ulrika Jonsson who declined to deny that John Leslie was the unnamed man who she said in her autobiography had raped her, thereby sending his life on a downward spiral, with other women making allegations, for which charges were dropped or he was acquitted.
In 2002, Leslie was mistakenly named by the TV presenter Matthew Wright as Ulrika Jonsson's rapist that she wrote about anonymously in her 2002 autobiography.
Wright subsequently said he could not remember saying Leslie's name during the show.
In a Sky One show, Wright offered John Leslie an apology. Leslie confirmed he would not sue Wright, saying: 'I think he just made a really big mistake and unfortunately I was the one paying the price.'
Jonsson made no public comment on Leslie's naming and did not cooperate with police over the matter. Police investigated Leslie but never charged him with the alleged offence.
Jo wrote: Some people in the media really are the lowest of the low. TalkTV reporters, instead of interviewing William Merritt about his book (an interview with Mike Graham was apparently scheduled last year, then dropped at the last minute and never rescheduled), are interviewing each other and spreading vile rumours about Rolf Harris, even worse than the claims made in court. They're also saying there's a famous abuser who hasn't been outed publicly (and who everyone in the media supposedly knows about but for some reason can't report to police).
And complaining about media reports or trying to get information to journalists seems to be a complete waste of time. Individual journalists seem not to have public e-mail addresses and the feedback e-mail addresses simply generate "we're too busy to read e-mails" automatic replies.
All journos are scumbags like their bosses. They are activists in suits!
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