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Ban the veil to save freedom-hating Britain from Muslim women and other perverts
SHOULD a Muslim woman be able to wear a full-face veil in court? Judge Peter Murphy, ‘no’. He says the woman charged with witness intimidation must show her face in Blackfriars Crown Court (above). She says she does not want to show her face in front of men. She wants to keep on her niqab.
A compromise is struck: she can wear the veil in all the parts of the trial where she is not giving evidence.
But her lawyers say the making her remove the veil breaches Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Which is does not.
The Judge won’t budge any further. To begin with he ruled that she must remove the veil at all times:
“It is necessary for this court to be satisfied that they can recognise the defendant. While I obviously respect the right to dress in any way she wishes, certainly while outside the court, the interests of justice are paramount. I can’t, as a circuit judge, accept a plea from a person whose identity I am unable to ascertain.”
But does he have to check her ID? Don’t the court officers do that before she enters the dock? Can’t they be women?
“It would be easy for someone on a later occasion to appear and claim to be the defendant. The court would have no way to check on that.”
No way? Well, there was a way. An officer of the court swore an oath that the woman in the dock was the same woman as appeared in a photo of the suspect. Accordingly, the suspect was allowed to enter a plea (not guilty).
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Posted: 16th, September 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
Calm and laugh at the Nazis: Propaganda, Power, Persuasion and Hitler’s Lambeth Walk the British Library
THE British Library (it’s fabulous; do go) is showing Propaganda: Power and Persuasion.
Propaganda: Power and Persuasion is the first exhibition to explore international state propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries. From the eye-opening to the mind-boggling, from the beautiful to the surprising, posters, films, cartoons, sounds and texts reveal the myriad ways that states try to influence and persuade their citizens.
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Posted: 16th, September 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Wind turbines kill golden eagles and make bats implode
“People think the danger is bats getting hit by the blade but the danger is barotrauma, where they are popped from the inside. There are many risks to bats but when you add wind turbines it could be the final nail in the coffin. It had no signs of external trauma. That, to me, suggests it suffered internally.”
Speeding father on meth wearing prosthetic breasts and no pants with kids in car jailed
“I’D like to apologise to my family and my two daughters,” says Jonathan Harty to the Seattle court. “I don’t have any excuse for what I’ve done. There’s no excuse for it. I’ve made a life-altering decision for a lot of people by my selfish actions.”
The court hears that in April 2013, Mr Harty had been driving 100 mph down I-5 when he’d crashed into three vehicles. Police arrived to find Harty wearing a blouse, prosthetic breasts and no pants. He was sweating profusely. By his feet was a pair of worn panties and a bottle of urine.
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In the 1950s Amy Winehouse appeared on the album cover Billy Devroe’s Broad Minded?
IN the 1950s, Billy Devroe & The Devilaires sang and recorded bawdy songs. Albums were called suggestively An Assortment of Party Naughties, Censored, She Gives Food Stamps and Broad Minded.
Anorak has noticed that the female accompaniment on the cover of Broad Minded looks not a lot unlike the late and much missed star Amy Winehouse?
The face rings bell:
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Posted: 15th, September 2013 | In: Flashback, Music | Comment (1)
Man-made global warming creates 1 million sq miles more Arctic ice, say experts
THE Arctic ice sheet is huge:
A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent. The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.
Instead, days before the annual autumn re-freeze is due to begin, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia’s northern shores.
In 2010, BBC Science Reporter Jonathan Amos told us:
Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’
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Global warming is eating your brains
WHAT can Global Warming not be blamed for? The Courier-Journal reports that it is eating your brains:
Brain eating amoeba strikes again, as some wonder whether global warming will help spread it to the north
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Children rejoice at their ‘evil’ mother’s death in newspaper obituary
IN August Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick died age 78 in Reno, Nevada. Her daughter, Katherine Reddick, sent this obituary to the Reno Gazette-Journal. Katherine’s brother Patrick, tells the Associated Press that they wanted to “to bring awareness to child abuse … shame child abuse overall.” Dear mum…
Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick born Jan 4, 1935 and died alone on Sept. 30, 2013. She is survived by her 6 of 8 children whom she spent her lifetime torturing in every way possible. While she neglected and abused her small children, she refused to allow anyone else to care or show compassion towards them. When they became adults she stalked and tortured anyone they dared to love. Everyone she met, adult or child was tortured by her cruelty and exposure to violence, criminal activity, vulgarity, and hatred of the gentle or kind human spirit.
On behalf of her children whom she so abrasively exposed to her evil and violent life, we celebrate her passing from this earth and hope she lives in the after-life reliving each gesture of violence, cruelty, and shame that she delivered on her children. Her surviving children will now live the rest of their lives with the peace of knowing their nightmare finally has some form of closure.
Most of us have found peace in helping those who have been exposed to child abuse and hope this message of her final passing can revive our message that abusing children is unforgiveable, shameless, and should not be tolerated in a “humane society”. Our greatest wish now, is to stimulate a national movement that mandates a purposeful and dedicated war against child abuse in the United States of America.
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In photos: the Balcombe anti-fracking protestors are looking for ‘Snuggles’
THE next person top make a pun from fracking loses the argument.
At the Cuadrilla exploratory drilling site in Balcombe, West Sussex, the anti fracking demonstrations continue.
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Courtney Cox arrested for alleged naked swim in casino fountain
GET A NEW X-rated Friends into (see above). News is that a Courtney Cox has been arrested for allegedly swimming naked in the fountain at the Horseshoe Casino Hotel in Bossier City. But it’s not that Courteney Cox.
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Oikophobia: Massachusetts school ‘can see a clash of civilizations brewing in the Sears bathroom’
IN Massachusetts, a Concord-Carlisle official backs 9/11 Muslim poem reading. “A Concord-Carlisle School Committee member is defending a high school principal who read a Muslim poem on Wednesday’s 9/11 anniversary — but failed to line up anyone to pledge of allegiance that morning.”
The poem is called My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears by Syrian poet Mohja Kahf:
My grandmother puts her feet in the sink
of the bathroom at Sears
to wash them in the ritual washing for prayer,
wudu,
because she has to pray in the store or miss
the mandatory prayer time for Muslims
She does it with great poise, balancing
herself with one plump matronly arm
against the automated hot-air hand dryer,
after having removed her support knee-highs
and laid them aside, folded in thirds,
and given me her purse and her packages to hold
so she can accomplish this august ritual
and get back to the ritual of shopping for housewares
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10 ways to get yourself into a sexual harassment seminar
DAVID DeAngelo, expert in douchery, has written a 10-point article about the art of talking to women… SEXUALLY. He uses the word so often in this piece that it’s impossible to read it without big caps and Zap Brannigan’s voice in your head, writes Rebecca Brynolf.
Let’s take a look at Dave’s advice for talking to women… SEXUALLY, point by point, and see where he might be going wrong.
“Did you know that talking about sex with a woman can be the first step to actually having it?” – It CAN be, if you’ve established a genuine connection and a mutual level of attraction. It CAN also be the first step to a woman pulling the rape alarm, too.
“Unfortunately, most guys screw up big time when they try to turn a conversation in that direction, and end up coming across as “creepy” or clueless.” – No kidding, Dave.
“The solution here is to learn how to flirt with a woman in a sexual way. Here are 10 tips to help you do so.” – In a SEXUAL way, you say?
Number 10
“Speak in a sexy way
“Think you can turn a woman on with a high-pitched, squeaky voice?” – Hey, it worked for Prince.
“Think again. Women pay more attention to your voice tone than to the words you speak.” – Honestly, sometimes when men speak I’m so overcome with the SEXUALNESS of how men speak rather than what they say that I may as well be listening to Charlie Brown’s teacher.
“When you flirt with a woman in a sexual way, work on improving your delivery. Speak slowly, hold eye contact, deepen your voice and pause. But be careful not to be overdramatic and cheesy.” – Dave, Dave. If you speak slowly with frequent pauses, a woman, or anyone, is going to think that either you’re slow, or you think they’re slow. OR that you think you’re a Brit abroad.
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Posted: 13th, September 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Salvador ‘Dalí is the biggest prick of the 20th Century’ says Henry Miller
HENRY Miller wrote this note back in 1973. In it he observed that Salvador Dalí (pictured below in 1936) ”the biggest ‘prick of the 20th century”.
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Books, Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
Blobfish is the champion of minging animals
ALL animals, in their own way, are preposterously ugly. They defecate everywhere and probably eat their own sick while mating in public.
However, the demonstrably beautiful human race need to decide which of our beastly cousins is the ugliest. So we did a poll and took some votes while animals ate each other in the wild.
And of course, the winner was the blobfish, named the ugliest on the planet.
The blobfish, with its face like perished ham and an air of utter misery, topped a poll featuring some of the planet’s weirdest looking creatures.
Thousands voted for the blobfish to become the new mascot for the Ugly Animal Preservation Society (UAPS) in partnership with the National Science + Engineering Competition. The ugliest animal shortlist can be seen here. And Christ, some of them are vomit inducing, such as the titicaca scrotum frog and pig-nosed monkey.
Naturally, there’s a nice thing behind all this. We humans don’t just want to point out the flaws of other creatures (unless you write for Heat magazine, of course). The campaign’s aim is to give ugly animals threatened by extinction a voice and is backed people like Stephen Fry and Simon Pegg.
Brian Cox said: “I support the ugly animal campaign, there are too many people trying to save cute animals. They get all the press, and all the attention. Ugly animals are more deserving than cute animals. So I think it is a superb campaign.”
Simon Watt, biologist and president of the society, added: “We’ve needed an ugly face for endangered animals for a long time and I’ve been amazed by the public’s reaction. For too long the cute and fluffy animals have taken the limelight but now the blobfish will be a voice for the mingers who always get forgotten.”
Awww. Aren’t humans adorable?
Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
The most bad taste tributes on the 12th anniversary of 9/11
TWELVE years ago the media was full of dark images of the attack on New York that became known as 9/11. Thousands were murdered. So. How do we mark the event? Well, with bad taste:
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Madeleine McCann: parents’ risky libel case against Amaral begins in Portugal
MADELEINE McCann is back in the news. The summer passed without sighting of the child who was once spotted all around the world. The focus is is on Kate McCann, the child’s mother.
The Daily Express lead with news:
“BRAVE MUM KATE FACES NEW ORDEAL IN PORTUGUESE COURT ROOM”
Lest “Brave” and “mum” not place the Express squarely on Kate McCann’s side in a legal spat, the paper adds:
Madeleine’s mother will face her police tormentor in court
This tormentor is called Goncalo Amaral, the Portuguese copper who investigated the child’s vanishing and then wrote a book about it.
The brave mother will face fresh agony in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, where she is launching a court bid to silence her tormentor Goncalo Amaral over allegations he made about the fate of the youngster. Former GP Kate and husband Gerry, both 45, are seeking £1million in damages from the former detective they say made their lives hell.
Amaral, 56, claims the couple lied about the events surrounding Madeleine’s disappearance.
He went on to write a book in which he alleged Madeleine died in the family’s holiday apartment and her parents covered up the tragedy.
Kate McCann and her husband Gerry deny that accusation. So. They want to silence Mr Amaral. One problem is that in Portugal freedom of speech is taken very seriously. It was not so very far back ion history that Portugal was a dictatorship. Freedom to way the unsayable has been had won.
As ever the Express reminds us that Mr McCann is a “heart consultant Gerry”, who will “remain at the couple’s home in Rothley, Leicestershire, to look after their eight-year-old twins Sean and Amelie”.
Michael Wright, the husband of Kate’s cousin Anne-Marie, will tell the Lisbon hearing that Amaral’s “poisonous lies” nearly destroyed the family. Kate agreed to attend court at the last moment on the advice of her Portuguese lawyer Isabel Duarte.
A source close to the McCanns said yesterday: “Kate’s lawyers felt that one of Madeleine’s parents should be there in person. Kate agreed to go while Gerry looks after the twins. “She is not expected to give evidence but will be sitting in the courtroom.”
The paper than quotes a “McCann source”, who cannot be named for reasons we are not told:
“They have been told that every word they have said against Mr Amaral, in response to his ludicrous claims, will be challenged. Lawyers on both sides tried to settle out of court but it was not to be.”
One person is named, however:
The McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell said last night: “Kate and Gerry remain confident they will win. They have a very strong case.”
The Irish Independent leads with very different headline:
Maddie’s mum to face top detective in trial
Amaral is a top detective? Well, he was.
Kate McCann will come face to face with the former police chief she and her husband Gerry accuse of hampering the search for their missing daughter Madeleine when their libel case against him starts in Lisbon today.
Mrs McCann’s attendance in court is understood to be against the advice of Scotland Yard detectives who are attempting to begin their own investigation in the Algarve to solve the six-year mystery.
The couple are suing detective Goncalo Amaral for £1m (€750,000) over allegations he made about the fate of Madeleine, who disappeared from an apartment in Praia da Luz shortly before her fourth birthday in May 2007.
The Indy might want to look again at that exchange rate.
It is feared Mrs McCann’s presence in Portugal will provoke a media circus and further aggravate Portuguese authorities as the Scotland Yard team seeks co-operation to carry out their inquiries on Portuguese soil.
A source said: “Met police are worried it will create a bigger platform for Mr Amaral and his supporters to spout more bile and could damage their own inquiries in the country.”
This could go badly for the McCanns.
The Star says of Amaral:
KATE McCann will today come face-to-face with the disgraced police detective who accused her of covering up daughter Madeleine’s death.
The BBC sums up best:
Amaral, the detective who initially led the inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance, is expected to argue that under Portuguese law he is entitled to make the claims published in The Truth Of The Lie. The former officer was removed from the Portuguese investigation in October 2007 after criticising British police.
READ: It’s a high-risk strategy in Portugal…
Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (3)
Esquire magazine uses 9/11 falling man photo to advertise a ‘more stylish commute’
ON this 12th anniversary of 9/11, Esquire magazine reproduced the essay The Falling Man. It’s a picture of man falling to his death from the World Trade Center.
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
Dwelling on one photograph of a man hurtling towards his demise is unpleasant. If you find him, then what – get his loved ones to sign the photo and explain how they feel seeing it?
But then it gets worse. Esquire uses the picture to advertise a feature entitled: “Making Your Morning Commute Mote Stylish”.
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Hello I’m Johnny Cash – the 1976 Comic book and Jesus Christ reader
IN 1976 Spire Comics created “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash”. It’s his life with guitar, Jesus and lots of pills:
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Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
National Night in Singapore: Mentos mints release rap to promote procreation
THE results are not yet known. We do not know the take-up rate on the drive to make babies on National Day in Singapore this August 9 . The music to procreate by was supplied by Mentos Singapore and BBH Asia Pacific, the rap including such lyrics as:
“As a Singaporean citizen you’ll be doing your civic duty if you forget about the condoms after the fireworks and the parades are all over with. So let’s get fu**ing, shall we?”
“Let’s not watch fireworks, let’s make ‘em instead”
“Singapore’s population, it needs some increasin’ / So forget wavin’ flags, on August 9th we be freaking,”
“Exploring your body like the Night Safari / We gotta go all the way for Singapore”
“It’s National Night, so let’s make some fireworks ignite / It’s National Night, let’s make Singapore’s birthrate spike”
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The 1977 Sex Pistols Christmas Party and Huddersfield cake fight
ON Christmas Day 1977, the Sex Pistols were to Huddersfield for the Sex Pistols Christmas Party. All the cool children were at Ivanhoes to see the Postils play a benefit show for the families of striking firemen and miners. Johhny Rotten served cake to the children of striking miners who thew it back in his face.
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Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Flashback, Music | Comments (2)
Views on Obama’s Gut-free Syria mission: Help Kickstart World War III and get with change
VIEWS on Obama’s moves on Syria:
“The Gut is a perversion of the notion of an activist president. Active does not mean reflexive. Being an activist does not imply thoughtlessness. Thinking is an activity. Considering all the possibilities can be an extraordinarily active business. (In fact, Neustadt, and through him, John F. Kennedy, had a positive mania for “options.” They thought that deciding among several courses of action was the proper function of leadership.) The Gut is the opposite of that. The Gut feels the right course of action in a situation — “He tried to kill my dad!” “With us or against us!” — and then acts on it. The Gut resists options and the active process of deciding among them. Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy.”
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Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment
Michael Le Vell is a victim of the State-sponsored assault on adults
MICHAEL Le Vell had to prove his innocence. The Daily Mirror reserved a special place on its front page for the man who works as an actor on Coronation Street. The Mirror used words like “truth” and guilty” to report on Le Vell as he was tried for child sex crimes.
Le Vell’s aunt Pat Gallier, 67, told media:
‘The police seem to be arresting celebrities and accusing them of child-sex offences without seeming to check if there’s enough evidence. Michael’s been caught up in this witch-hunt. This has changed him – people will never look at him the same again.”
She’s right. As Brendan says:
I’ve been waiting for weeks to say what complete bullshit this case seemed to be. It had flashes of false memory syndrome, therapeutic fantasy, and of course post-Savile hysteria about abusive celebs. Thank God for juries, an oasis of reason in a mad world.
A CPS spokesman said:
“This case was reviewed in great detail. On the basis of the reviews the CPS concluded that there was sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction. Whilst the CPS needs to consider if a conviction is realistic, the jury needs to be sure that the defendant is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. We of course respect the verdicts they have reached today…”
Of course.
‘There has been a fundamental shift in the way that we assess the credibility of the alleged victims in these cases, as demonstrated by the Savile and recent grooming cases such as that in Rochdale, but the evidential test remains the same.”
The shift being that all adults are now mistrusted.
The Indy notes:
In June a jury at Liverpool Crown Court took just 29 minutes to clear former Coronation Street actor Andrew Watkinson who played Frank Foster of four counts of indecently assaulting a 15-year-old boy in the 1990s.
Now cleared, the Press react with a few puns and rhymes. Only the Daily Mail leads with the important question: why did this case ever come before a jury in the first place
The Indy rhymes Le Vell with Hell:
The Sun clumsily works in a brand endorsement
The Star is all boozed up – clear rhymes with beer
The Mirror gets poetic about “Corrie Kev”
I’ve lost two years of my life
to this hgell
but at last it’s over
says Michael Le Vell
And the Mail gets it
The Mail offers some background to the case:
As Le Vell walked free, it emerged that the CPS initially ruled there was insufficient evidence to charge him after his arrest in September 2011. But the decision of Nazir Afzal, Chief Crown Prosecutor in the North West, not to prosecute was over-ruled by Alison Levitt QC, the principal legal adviser to the Director of Public Prosecutions for England. The victim’s mother made a formal complaint in February 2012 and asked for the decision to be reviewed. The girl also made further allegations and the actor was charged in February this year.
The Mail adds:
After his initial arrest in September 2011, the actor was the subject of an intense police investigation. The alleged victim was interviewed on video by specialist officers trained to deal with such cases and she told them about the abuse and rape in detail. The DPP’s Principal Legal Advisor, Alison Levitt QC (left) overruled Chief Crown Prosecutor, Nazir Afzal, (right) who had decided there was insufficient evidence to charge le Vell with any of the abuse or rape allegationsAfter the police investigation had been concluded a file of evidence was passed on to the Crown Prosecution Service North West.
Both parties were both told of this decision in late December 2011 and Le Vell was said to be ‘relieved and delighted’ at the decision. However the victim’s mother was said to be furious and after speaking with police officers she made a formal complaint against the CPS in February 2012. The girl also returned to the police in March 2012 told them she had forgotten to mention other rapes she had suffered at the hands of the actor.
The Jimmy Savile sex scandal erupted in October 2012 causing a wholesale re-evaluation of sex cases, particularly those offences against children.
The CPS tells us:
“She [Levitt] concluded that there was sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that the earlier decision not to prosecute should be overturned. In addition the victim made further allegations to the police in March 2012 which were investigated by the police. The Principal Legal Advisor also reviewed this additional evidence and in February 2013 authorised that the defendant be charged with 19 offences in total. All victims now have the right, if they are concerned about a decision not to charge, to ask for the case to be looked at again. This process enabled the CPS to re-review this case, to consider the evidence afresh including some further allegations by the victim, and to bring charges.”
A “legal source” tells the Telegraph:
“There was not a shred of evidence to support the girl’s claims. There was a basic lack of evidence. I have never known a case such as this to go to court with no evidence he had any interest in child pornography or other telling indicators.
There was not even the remotest suggestion from anyone, other than the alleged victim, that he had even looked oddly at a child – let alone had a sexual interest in children. Any professional jury would have cleared him but in a court trial you can sometimes be swayed by emotion and not fact.”
The Times reported this nugget of courtroom drama:
She said her daughter spoke about the alleged abuse after attending a self-help conference and that her daughter was “very calm” and told her that she remembered the alleged attacks “all the time”…
The witness said: “In the car she said, ’It’s happened a lot more than I’m making out Mummy. It’s a lot worse.’
“She said, Mummy, you don’t want to know.”’
…the burden of proof required to bring a prosecution has seemingly been lightened to a degree that simply does not serve justice. This is especially true when the abuse is not recent: in the Le Vell case, a rape at the age of six is being alleged in court by someone who is 17; in Savile’s case, not to mention the rash of cases that followed, the time between alleged abuse and serious police action was even longer.
So although I don’t doubt that some of the ‘victims’ in these cases are telling the truth, I simply do not believe they all are.
Meanwhile, the mantra that ‘we must listen to what children say’ has subtly changed to ‘we must believe what children say’. The police and the CPS, knowing this, bring flimsy cases – like Le Vell’s – that should never have seen the light of day.
So another career bites the dust, and another man – heart, soul and reputation – is ruined.
What about the alleged victim, who wasn’t?
Duncan Barkes asks: “Should the law change to grant anonymity to those charged with sex offences?”
Jerry Wright notes:
“It must be awful to be accused of something you haven’t done, facing a nightmare of twelve months knowing your innocent, but trying to find any proof that you were not at the scene of an alleged crime. Mr Le Vell, 48, who plays Kevin Webster in Coronation Street had denied 12 charges in total, telling the jury he was “fighting for his life” During the trial Mr Le Vell admitted he was an alcoholic who had a series of one-night stands throughout his 25-year marriage. What makes my blood boil is, his name, his career, his personal details were all made public, and the accuser was kept secret, as the girl is still a teenager, and her parents too, who no doubt wanted just to cash in on Mr le Vell’s celebrity status!”
The accuser is afforded lifetime anonymity.
The last words are Le Vell’s, who told the court:
“I’m like a lost soul and I still want to get to the bottom of why this has happened to me and why I’m being accused of this, because I know none of this happened. I have been walking around for the last two years just not knowing.”
Such are the facts…
Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comments (4)
Spare a thought for Michael Le Vell, victim of the tabloid-friendly cult of child abuse
SPARE a thought for Michael Le Vell, or “Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell, as he is known. The 48-year-old has been cleared of 12 child sex abuse charges, including rape.
Michael Turner, to use his real name, is the victim. His accuser, said he’d attacked her from six until she was 14. She remains anonymous.
He stood in a glass dock for all to see.
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Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comments (7)
