In London, former newspaper publisher Eddy Shah has been cleared of raping an underage girl. Some people in Edmonton share his sense of outrage.

If you haven't heard of Eddy Shah, he almost became a newspaper magnate in the 1980s. Things didn't quite work out for him, but they did yesterday when he was cleared by a jury at the Central Criminal Court of historic sex offences. Since the Jimmy Savile scandal we have seen an explosion of these cases, and many are still waiting to go to trial. To date there has been one conviction - Stuart Hall. There has also been an acquittal - that of actor Andrew Lancel. The two cases could hardly have been more disparate. Hall, who is now an old man, was an opportunist predator who took advantage of young girls while working as a TV presenter. Lancel was accused by someone he had once regarded as a friend, a male.


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