Rolf Harris

[ferlew]

Can the accusations be true?
My lads are both concerned.

[anneasquith]

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[tonyav]

Yes, you can type Bloody but not Bloody and Hell together.

[ferlew]

Twaddly rules here, popping off to ministrate :)

[Peter Pedant]

.Let us remember that this is the Crown's case,
and it sounds pretty damning because the barrister for the Crown is paid to make that effect.

The defence of course - since HE is paid to defend will say on the other hand....

The Prosecution is going for something called the Similar Evidence rule in which one is allowed under certain circumstances to take five people's evidence, all of whom dont have the whole picture and to use the jig-saw pieces from each persons evidence, to build up the whole picture.

The defence calls this - making evidence up. Basically the missing bits of the jigsaw, you are allowed to make up - that is import from the others' evidence.

[Old_Geezer]

Of course an accusation COULD be true. That is what the court must decide upon.

That "Similar Evidence" description sounds rather suspect. I'd expect situations where no one has a whole picture, but the evidence from a group of individuals should overlap, with no gaps one can speculate wildly on.

[lankeela]

With regard to Stuart Hall, I read the one 'victim' was subjected to abuse on 30 different occasions and another a similar amount, even going on trips with him - I just don't understand why someone would keep allowing this to happen - its not as though they were being forced in their own home was it?

[jennyjoan]

I have just come out of hybernation - re Rolf - right or wrong - I don't understand how these ladies come out perhaps after 20 or 40 years with these accusations - Rolf is either 84 or 86 - one lady said she was groomed from 16 to 29 - in the name of God - do you not know what you are doing at 29 - nobody is groomed at that age.

I feel sorry for all the celebrities whose names have been named and shamed before they have been blamed. Many many years ago when these various celebrities were famous - many women threw themselves at them at a whim - called groupies - volunteered their bodies cos they chose to - I lived in that peak era and watched the women throw themselves - it takes two to tango so without knowing the whole truth - the women can be to blame too.

[andres]

I did read somewhere that she asked Rolf for £25,000 to start an Animal Sanctuary and if he didn't come up with the money then her brother was going to the police . Speaks volumes for her character doesn't it ?