We already know that some of the offences are not what i would call crimes.
The whole thing is very puzzling.
It all started with an anonymous letter that Yasmin Alibhai-Brown claims to have received (and threw the envelope away)
Maybe I am wrong, but wouldn't the girl be over sixteen if she was invited to the BBC studios with a view to being employed there? It was around 1971. As far as I can tell, she was a gold-digging trollop and she regrets it now. I am very sorry that she is upset by it, but lousy relationships are not unusual.
From the letter....
So what was it that happened? The head and my mother accepted the invitation, and I went off alone to the studios. (Alone! What a green light that must have given him!) The first and then the second time, all was circumspect, public and above board. Then I was invited back again. It was the end of the working day, and Stuart took me to his dressing room, where he gave me plenty of champagne before having sex with me. (In his dressing room, in the BBC studios.) I still can't bear champagne and the memory of his crepey skin makes me shudder. And yet I went back for more. He took me to other places.
Why am I so angry? Because what he did was to spoil my sense of myself, my relationship with myself, my feeling of who I was for many years. His actions filled me shame and secrecy, and had a terrible effect too on my relationship with my mother.
He took advantage of my youth, naïveté, loneliness, and manipulated me into having sex. I didn't seek him out, he sought and groomed me. I didn't find him sexually attractive - quite the reverse - that crepey skin, the vanity, the perma-tan. But I craved what he gave me in other ways. Attention, and a sense of being wanted, something that was signally missing elsewhere in my life. And I felt then that he was affectionate with me. How it makes my skin crawl to write that. Sadly the world is too full of girls (and boys) who are looking for love, and find too late that they have found sex with a predator instead. These children are everywhere - not just in children's homes. What can we do to protect them from the Stuarts?
The full thing...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-...stigate-8601824.html
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's part in it....
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/how-...igation-8601517.html