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The damage false allegations can do to a person is awful but it's far, far worse when that person is convicted and jailed or dies. Sean busily says "quite rightly" about Savile and Huw Edwards and others and doesn't seem to realise how much worse it is when someone ends up convicted of crimes that never happened - let alone that they never did.
Until the Savile inquiry I was unaware that such a procedure actually had the ability to convict an individual of crimes like that did, I thought that was only possible in a court of law when somebody, whatever the alleged crimes, is at least allowed a proper defence of themselves.