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by coffin_dodger » Mon Aug 05, 2013 4:13 pm
David Cameron strategy guru attacks Clarke's Ukip remarks
David Cameron's campaign chief Lynton Crosby has drawn up plans to unmask potential “racists” and “paedophiles” within Ukip as he criticised a senior Cabinet minister for previous unauthorised attacks on Nigel Farage’s party....
Semper, is it just me, or are these jokers sounding shriller and more ridiculous by the minute? I'm kinda thinking it's running swiftly past irony into farce.
by semper occultus » Tue Aug 06, 2013 3:13 am
by Col Quisp » Sun Aug 11, 2013 4:27 am
by smoking since 1879 » Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:12 pm
by Col Quisp » Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:42 pm
Britain's top police officer today dismissed claims that the investigation prompted by the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal has turned into a witch-hunt.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe made defended the probe after former newspaper tycoon Eddy Shah, recently cleared of raping a schoolgirl in the Nineties, told BBC Radio 5 Live at the weekend that the inquiry was mostly “based on emotion”.
Sir Bernard said accusations made to Operation Yewtree could not be ignored. He said: “I don’t think it’s a witch-hunt at all, we’re just going where the evidence takes us and victims are making allegations.
“The alternative is to ignore them, and if you look at Yewtree the broad allegation is that they have been ignored for 20, 30 years.
“These things are hard to investigate. Obviously it’s a serious issue for the suspect who’s under investigation after that time, but we don’t take these things on lightly, and we do try to keep it confidential.
“If you look at all the debate there’s been about Jimmy Savile, for example, this man for 30 years appears to have attacked many victims and no one listened. Is it wrong to pursue it now?”
Yesterday an 80-year-old man became the 14th person to be arrested under Operation Yewtree, launched in the wake of abuse claims against the late TV presenter Savile.
The first arrest in the inquiry was former pop star Gary Glitter, who was held in October last year and recently bailed again until November.
Another eight men remain on police bail, including comedians Jim Davidson and Freddie Starr and TV presenter Rolf Harris.
Asked whether Operation Yewtree was turning into a witch hunt, Mr Shah, 69, said: “It’s developing into that — it’s easy policing and it’s easy prosecutions. It’s based on emotion, most of it. It’s going back to the witch-hunt theory.
“In a civilised society there’s got to be more checks and balances before these sort of accusations are used.”
His comments came after a row sparked when prosecuting barrister Robert Colover described a 13-year-old sex abuse victim as “predatory”.
by Col Quisp » Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:03 am
by Allegro » Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:45 am
Maybe it's Richard Berry? Just guessingCol Quisp » Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:03 pm wrote:
It's actually a good song, not written by someone in Herman's Hermits, as I had posted earlier. someone named Barry Richards wrote it. Who the hell is Barry Richards?
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by coffin_dodger » Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:57 am
Col Quisp wrote:
"Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe made defended the probe after former newspaper tycoon Eddy Shah, recently cleared of raping a schoolgirl in the Nineties, told BBC Radio 5 Live at the weekend that the inquiry was mostly “based on emotion”.
Abused girls can be to blame, suggests Eddy Shah
Former newspaper owner Eddy Shah has said under-age girls who engage in consensual sex can be "to blame" for the abuse they experience.
Mr Shah was recently cleared of raping a schoolgirl in London hotels when she was between 12 and 15.
He said charges of rape involving girls under 16 who "threw themselves" at celebrities could be "technical".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23653172
by Col Quisp » Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:13 pm
Revealed: Sexual predator Jimmy Savile was regular visitor to Catholic school at centre of abuse scandal
1 Aug 2013 07:42
FORMER BBC presenter was frequently invited to Fort Augustus Abbey by Benedictine Order monks.
PREDATOR Jimmy Savile was a frequent guest of monks at the Catholic boarding school at the centre of a sex abuse scandal.
The serial sex attacker regularly drove to Fort Augustus Abbey at a time when ex-pupils claim they were being terrorised by some of the monks.
A BBC TV investigation, Sins of the Fathers, this week alleged that nine monks at the Benedictine Order school repeatedly beat, sexually assaulted and, in one case, raped boys in their care over several decades.
Victims of the abuse complained but their testimony was ignored and covered up. Police are now investigating.
Savile, who is known to have attacked scores of young girls and boys during decades of abuse, would park his Rolls-Royce, registered JS 247, at the school gates before swanning around the grounds.
The former BBC presenter, known to have abused children at schools on other occasions, was invited to Fort Augustus on several occasions, according to pupils there.
Disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien, a good friend of Savile’s, was also a regular visitor at the school.
The revelations of Savile’s visits to the school came as it emerged that many more pupils have stepped forward to claim they, too, were victims of monk teachers.
Savile spent much of his time in the Highlands even before buying a cottage in Glencoe in 1998, which was just over an hour’s drive from Fort Augustus.
He was photographed in the library of the school in 1970, looking at ease in a striped boating blazer.
A Metropolitan Police report into allegations of sexual assault by Savile found the presenter and DJ was a “prolific, predatory sex offender” who abused more than 200 people over a 60-year period.
He died aged 84 in October 2011.
Savile was a massive celebrity in the Highlands and was honorary chieftain of Lochaber Highland Games for nearly 40 years.
After buying his cottage, he entertained guests there, including Prince Charles.
After Savile’s huge catalogue of sexual crimes came to light following his death, his cottage was repeatedly attacked by vandals. It was sold in February this year for £203,000.
A converted Range Rover Savile may have used to abuse young girls failed to sell after a hate campaign.
The 1978 Carawagon estate – complete with double mattress in the back – was bought for £3000 in 1978 and was fitted with a bed, wash-hand basin and curtains.
Alan Draper, an academic and former adviser to the Catholic Church in Scotland on child protection issues, said he was not surprised at the new claims emerging.
He added: “I’m not sure I would wish to make any specific comment on Jimmy Savile’s connection. He was a well-known Catholic and he did a lot of charity work but it has also emerged that he was a sexual predator.
“It would be impossible without proper evidence to connect the two.
“However, I am not surprised that more victims have come forward. I thought the BBC documentary was quite sensitively done and moving and sometimes this treatment can encourage victims to come forward after many years.
“I would hope the police investigation would result in charges being brought against anyone who might still be alive who is accused of criminal behaviour.
“I also believe that any abbot or person involved in covering up such offences should be subject to criminal charges.”
The BBC documentary claims one priest was allowed to move from Fort Augustus to his native Australia, where church bosses were none the wiser about allegations made against him in Scotland.
He was suspended by the Australian church after the BBC tracked him down. More than a dozen former pupils at Fort Augustus and its feeder school Carlekemp, in East Lothian, have come forward to back up Monday’s heart-rending tales of abuse at the hands of several monks, some of whom are still alive.
Five men claimed on the Sins Of Our Fathers documentary that they were raped or sexually abused by Father Aidan Duggan, an Australian monk who taught at Carlekemp and Fort Augustus between 1953 and 1974.
Duggan died in 2004 but some abuse claims relate to men who are still alive.
Donald Macleod, who attended Fort Augustus from 1961, said he was raped by Duggan when he was 14 but was not believed.
The investigation also uncovered allegations that Fort Augustus was used as a “dumping ground” for problem clergy who had confessed to abusing children.
O’Brien, who was forced to leave Scotland earlier this year after being forced to admit to inappropriate sexual behaviour, was guest of honour at the school’s old boys’ dinner last year.
The cardinal, who resigned as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh in February after the allegations of sexual misconduct, also appeared at several prestigious events at the school, where some of the monks who now stand accused were also in attendance.
After Savile’s crimes were known, O’Brien demanded the disgraced DJ be stripped of his papal knighthood – bestowed in 1990.
The pair met when O’Brien was priest at St Patrick’s Church in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, in 1971.
Savile was a regular visitor because his mother Agnes was friends with O’Brien’s colleague, Fr Denis O’Connell.
by Col Quisp » Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:40 am
Rolf Harris, an Australian entertainer, was charged as part of a U.K. police probe into sexual-assault allegations.
Harris, 83, faces nine counts of indecent assault with girls as young as 14 and four offenses of making indecent images of children, the Metropolitan Police Service said in an e-mailed statement today. The alleged assaults took place from 1980 through 1986, while the images were made last year, police said.
Harris was arrested in March by officers investigating child abuse by people in the entertainment industry. The investigations began last year with accusations against the late British Broadcasting Corp. television star Jimmy Savile, which triggered a scandal at the world’s largest public broadcaster.
“We have determined that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest,” Alison Saunders, chief prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said in a separate e-mail.
Lawyers at Harbottle & Lewis LLP, who have represented Harris in the past, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. He is scheduled to appear in court in Lonon on Sept. 23.
Harris, who has been honored three times by Queen Elizabeth II, was the host of U.K. television programs including “Animal Hospital” on the BBC in the 1990s and wrote songs such as “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” in the 1960s.
by Col Quisp » Fri Aug 30, 2013 12:35 pm
Thousands of families and children watched the parade and the float - which featured a man dressed up as the sex predator surrounded by others dressed as schoolgirls, against a Jim’ll Fix It backdrop.
Many festival goers have threatened to boycott the annual community event in Lauder in Scotland following the stunt, saying they felt allowing the float mocked the many victims of one of Britain’s most prolific predatory paedophiles.
Writing on the event’s Facebook page after the parade Margaret Ryles said: "I feel there was no respect for those who were abused by this very sick sick man...and I think it was in very bad taste, offensive and insensitive."
The Jim'll Fix It themed float was entered into the Lauder parade by members of the local Twenty 10 Club on July 31 - and was awarded third place in the Best Vehicle category.
Gregory Kynoch from Edinburgh was in the crowd and said the stunt was "inappropriate" and said he would not be returning to the community event.
On camera, the Borders village of Lauder looks chocolate-box pretty – but as events unfolded during the centuries-old Common Riding on Saturday 3 August, it became clear that even the sweetest confectionery can conceal poison.
Many thousands – families, children, visitors and tourists – attend the Lauder Common Riding and amidst the spectacle parading past them in Lauder that day was a float. For those unfamiliar with the term – a decorated flatbed truck. Not just any float.
This had taken many weeks of careful planning. There had been costumes to choose and create, wigs to buy, make-up to select, the making of props and most important of all for nine of the young men of the Lauder Common Riding's Twenty 10 Club – a theme. Not just any theme.
This had to be topical, prize-winning and entertaining, impress the local lassies and be suitable for a family audience. Most of all it had to show that the young men of Lauder were a credit to their village and the cherished heritage of the Common Riding.
None of these young men may recall precisely who came up with the theme of serial child abuse, sexual assault, rape, paedophilia and homophobia – but somehow it must just have been too good an opportunity to ignore. Could anything be more entertaining, more funny, than the broken bodies, minds and lives of children and adult survivors of such abuse? Was there a fight to see who could dress up as serial sex offender Jimmy Savile? Was the person who drew the shortest straw dressed as the gay, ultimately AIDS-stricken Freddie Mercury and did they have to lose weight for the part?
For six of the men it was simpler – all that was required of them was to dress and pose in as sexualised a fashion as possible to represent under-age schoolgirl victims. Context was everything – and the men of the Twenty 10 Club had left nothing to chance.
Just in case anyone was in any doubt as to the meaning of the float, two signs were placed behind it – one for Top Of The Pops and one for Jim'll Fix It, representing two of the locations where Savile and his cohorts abused victims, some of whose cases have yet to be heard in court and may never do so. A cover version of the theme from Jim'll Fix It was written, rehearsed and performed through the village throng.
When it emerged from the far side of Lauder, with thousands watching and cheering, the float was awarded a prize in the 'Best Vehicle' category by the judging panel. Within a few days, the grotesque pictures and story had gone global.
Local MSP Christine Grahame – who is convener of the Scottish Parliament's justice committee and its sub-committee on policing – condemned the display, but defended free speech and was 'sure those involved didn't go out to deliberately offend anyone'. I politely beg to differ.
The organising committee of the Lauder Common Riding denied any responsibility and avoided the opportunity to apologise or explain how their event had descended into controversy. In a palpably ignorant defence of the grotesque tableau, novelist Douglas Jackson asserted that 'a substantial percentage of Lauder folk laughed' at what they saw.
Peter Saunders of the National Association of People Abused in Childhood, wholeheartedly condemned the incident, calling it 'crass' and 'the height of distaste' and pointed out that, amongst those witnessing the event or reading the reports that followed, it was 'inevitable' that some had been victims of childhood abuse or knew victims.
I was one of them.
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and severe depression and anxiety – to name just some of my diagnoses – have left me permanently disabled as a result of the horrific cycle of abuse I experienced.
Each illness was re-activated by what I can only describe as a public outrage purposely designed to offend, titillate and trivialise. I was profoundly offended that the abuse and sexual violence which I have fought so hard to overcome were mocked in public. That it was still deemed appropriate in a modern Scotland to make a joke of gay men with HIV – a virus I have successfully held at bay for almost 20 years – by associating them with rapists and paedophiles is shameful. I had to seek professional support.
I visited the Lauder Common Riding Facebook page and spent all day trying to explain the damage that had been done in glorifying abuse and sex crime in the guise of amusement and entertainment.
I invited those on the float and the organisers to meet me and other abuse survivors to better understand the impact of their actions. Nobody accepted and my access to the page was blocked.
On Thursday 9 August, with the knowledge and approval of the National Association of People Abused in Childhood, I submitted a hate crime report to Police Scotland on grounds of disability and sexual orientation. I have not received a response. Yesterday I attended a scheduled police community surgery at the LGBT centre for health and wellbeing in Edinburgh. The police didn't show up.
In 2009, after decades of ill health, I had been rendered so disabled by my experiences of abuse that I was taken by the police to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital because I had expressed that I was suicidal. I was refused any help or admission to hospital and the police arrested and detained me, photographed, searched and fingerprinted me, charged me with breach of the peace (suicide) and told me I'd be in court the next morning. I was locked in a cell overnight without any legal or named representative being informed that I was there.
It was the same police station where, only a few years earlier, over many weeks and with no support, I had painfully reported my complex history of childhood abuse. Neither the procurator fiscal nor the Crown Office bothered to contact me to explain why the case never came to court.
On 2 August – just one day before the Lauder Common Riding – the ScotBordersPolice twitter feed announced that 'Hate crime will not be tolerated'. Yesterday the Twenty 10 Club issued an apology – much too little, much too late.
However, for me and countless thousands left traumatised and disabled by abuse, and insulted by the young men of the Lauder Common Riding, Scotland remains a nation in denial – a nation which blames and neglects victims while prioritising and protecting the 'rights' of those who cause us harm.
by Col Quisp » Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:44 pm
Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell raped a six-year-old girl while she was holding her teddy bear, a court has heard.
The star, who plays car mechanic Kevin Webster in the ITV soap, placed a second teddy bear over his victim's mouth as he sexually assaulted her, prosecutors claimed in their opening statement.
The victim said that during the first alleged rape, Le Vell told the girl he was "getting rid of the evil inside" of her.
Prosecutors told the jury at Manchester Crown Court, where Le Vell is being tried for 12 child sex offences, he then kissed her on the cheek and left.
The victim said she was so upset she tried to console herself by talking to her teddy bears, telling them what had happened.
She told the court that after being abused she would cuddle her teddies and tell them "it doesn't feel right but it must be".
Michael Le Vell court case Le Vell outside the court
The youngster was too scared to tell anyone else, because Le Vell allegedly said to her: "No-one needs to know, otherwise you'll be taken, you'll die and evil will come over you."
When he was finally confronted by the victim's mother, the jury heard that Le Vell became very angry, grabbed the woman and pinned her against a wall.
The 48-year-old actor, who is on trial under his real name of Michael Turner, denies five counts of rape, three of indecent assault, two counts of sexual activity with a child and two of causing a child to engage in sexual activity.
The alleged offences relate to one complainant and are said to have taken place between 2001 and September 2010. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was aged between six and 14.
Eleanor Laws QC, prosecuting, began the opening address by telling the jury Le Vell was a "heavy drinker".
Ms Laws said the abuse began when Le Vell slipped his hand under the girl's clothing.
The victim, who on Monday afternoon gave her account of what happened, was in tears as she recounted what happened.
In between sobs, from behind a curtain, the victim said Le Vell told her the alleged abuse was "our little secret".
As a result, she didn't tell anyone at the time, she said.
She said the abuse "didn't feel right, it felt disgusting, it hurt, it was very very scary."
The youngster said the abuse stopped for a short time before restarting when she was eight. At the time, "everyone noticed I was a different child", she said.
Le Vell shook his head repeatedly as the girl, in between breaking down in tears, said the alleged abuse made her feel "dirty".
Later she described how she felt as she tried to pluck up courage to tell her mother. The girl said she felt like she'd "done something wrong".
"I didn't understand why he'd done it to me", she said.
Father-of-two Le Vell, originally from Manchester, is one of TV's most famous faces after playing the soap's garage owner for the past 30 years.
ITV has said he will not be appearing in any further episodes of the soap pending the outcome of legal proceedings.
Le Vell's trial continues and is scheduled to last around two weeks.
by blankly » Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:17 am
by Searcher08 » Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:27 am
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by cptmarginal » Thu Sep 19, 2013 1:41 am
Guy Marsden, 59, is writing a book with broadcaster and author Tony Horne about his disgraced uncle.
Now Savile’s circle of celebrity pals are living in fear of being named in the book.
Guy will reveal fresh details of the secret paedophile parties the BBC star hosted, some attended by his showbiz friends.
He will claim that Savile had influential members of the British legal system in his back pocket to allow him to act without fear of prosecution.
And he will also expose Savile’s secret links with members of foreign royal families – suggesting he could have abused countless victims from overseas.
Roofer Guy from Leeds, West Yorks, decided to write the book after staying silent for years over the Jim’ll Fix It star’s shameful secret life.
He said: “I have written a book based on all my experiences of my uncle from the age of 13. I couldn’t live with the guilt of knowing so much and staying silent any longer.
“Doing the book is not about money but me really wanting to tell people about the extent of his depravity.”
The dad-of-four added: “Even if only one person buys the book it means it will be on the record. I think his victims have a right to know.
“I have names of all the famous and powerful people he used to mix with.
“Many of them are celebrities but others are names from other backgrounds who I believe were implicit in allowing him to act in the way he did.”
He continued: “Jimmy was very ‘in’ with foreign royalty, which nobody is aware of.
“It is possible many of his victims could have come from abroad.
“It will be an explosive book and I know a lot of people will be very worried that I am writing it.”
Last October, Guy told how his uncle regularly attended paedophile parties.
He revealed Savile even took him to parties at the houses of showbiz pals when he was just 13.
Although he says he never saw any children being abused, he believed boys and girls as young as ten were targeted by perverts.
Guy, who has ten grandchildren with his wife Anne, previously said neither he nor his family wanted money from their uncle’s estate. “I’ve written the book purely to set the record straight,” he added.
A joint police and NSPCC report published in January declared that, with at least 450 victims, Savile, who died in 2011 aged 84, was one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders.
Metropolitan Police Commander Peter Spindler said Savile “groomed the nation” by raising millions for charity while using his status as a platform for abuse.
In July police discovered the names and sexual details of hundreds of girls scrawled across a wall of a Manchester record shop.
Savile was thought to have used a room above the store as a secret HQ to plan his vile acts.
Horne, 42, ghostwriter for Tango 190 – the story of late PC David Rathband who was shot by fugitive Raoul Moat – confirmed he had received a manuscript from Guy.
He said: “I’ve got his first draft and am going through it with him.
“As you can imagine it is pretty revelatory and will need careful editing.
“Obviously, I can’t reveal any names mentioned at this stage.
“Some are household names known to millions.
“There will be a lot of worried people out there fearing this book coming out.”
The practice of “decanting” children in care to homes far away from their families has been condemned as “indefensible” by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary.
Secrecy rules intended to protect children from abuse has created effectively handed them to paedophile gangs, Mr Gove wrote in today's Daily Telegraph, by denying the authorities crucial information.
But David Simmonds, the chair of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People board, said councils had broken up council-run children’s homes and sent young people to “small, secret” institutions so paedophiles such as Jimmy Savile, the disgraced BBC presenter, could not find them.
“This was something we saw in the Jimmy Savile case,” Cllr Simmonds told BBC Radio 4. “Many of the previous council-run children homes had become a focus for abuse. And so the market was created whereby there were lots of small, secret children’s homes that people didn’t know about, the idea being that abusers wouldn’t be able to find and target them.”
That move created a “new set of risks,” he added.
Research by Mr Gove’s department has found that almost half of children in care are moved out their local authority, and a third are sent more than 20 miles away. Children’s homes have clustered in crime-ridden areas and in the North West and West Midlands, the data shows.
But Cllr Simmonds said such moves are often necessary to “break a cycle of abuse” and protect children from predators such as Levi Bellfield, who murdered three women including Milly Dowler.
“We had a young girl who was being targeted by Levi Bellfield, who went on to murder a number of other young women,” he said. “We moved her a long way from home to make sure she would get a fresh start, away from the person who was creating that risk.”
He said many children’s homes are set up privately and are not registered with the local authority, meaning councils are unaware of the children being looked after in their own area.
Mr Gove’s department has changed the secrecy rules to make it easier for police and councils to share information on vulnerable children.
Mr Simmonds said councils had been campaigning for a change in the rules for some time. "I think it's marvellous that we now have a minister who says 'I'm going to listen to this'," he added.
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