Dave Lee Travis

[mikey4444]

More fallout from Jimmy Savile it would seem. I have a feeling that, like The Mousetrap, this is going to run and run ::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23716575

[ummmm]

Well this thread is about Dave Lee Travis...

//The allegations date from 1977 to 2007 and relate to nine female complainants aged between 15 and 29 at the time.//

[DJHawkes]

sorry for daring to digress mikey, have you seen the mousetrap? I never have,

[Maydup]

I've seen the Mousetrap twice, once in London and again on national tour. It hadn't improved with age.

[giveup]

The words "jumping on" and "bandwagon" come to mind I'm afraid. Why wait this long to complain.

[hc4361]

Well the good news is that DLT isn't accused of being a paedophile.

[mikey4444]

I have never seen the Mousetrap, despite having the opportunity to do so many times. I always seem to be doing something more important, like washing my hair.

[ummmm]

We don't know that anyone is jumping on the bandwagon. That judgement is just as harsh as assuming he is guilty without a fair trial.

We don't know what complaints have been made over the years.

[jno]

'jumping on the bandwagon' can be another way of saying 'thinking at last my complaint will be taken seriously'.

[ummmm]

Exactly, jno.

I was abused as a child. If I heard that someone else had accused my abuser of doing the same to them I would come forward, even all these years later. Not for compensation, or my 5 minutes of fame....just to confirm that it happened to me too.

[ummmm]

And as with the Jimmy Savile case, there were complaints and it was brushed under the carpet as it often was back then. Who's to say that operation Yewtree haven't got back and looked at historical complaints? So it's not the people coming forward now, it's the police going to them.

[hc4361]

The case against De'ath dropped after the complainant withdrew charges; the case against Beston dropped for lack of evidence;

[Octavius]

I can't help thinking that Yewtree is focusssing on Z listers who were big in their day but relatively back row in todays terms, and that their are still a host of A/B listers who hung around the dressing rooms of the tv studios in the 70s etc but are still rocking it today and being overlooked due to their 'celebrity' status.

Not saying anyone shoud be overlooked, but given the way young girls have tended to fawn themselves over any young boy celebrity (remember the Take That split suicide hlpline?), there must be a fair few still famous celebs pooping themselves waiting for a knock.

[Octavius]

And having just read what I wrote, I should clarify, I by no means infer that the girls were 'asking for it', just that many of the blokes would pounce on the opportunity.