So, Roache has been found not guilty and isn’t that a blow for the screaming hordes and their feeding frenzy in the wake of the Jimmy Savile allegations?
Operation Yewtree was little more than a witch-hunt and doubtless a vehicle for the compo seekers. Yet when it comes to the crunch, it all falls apart. Jim Davidson was able to rebuff the claims made against him and now Bill Roache has been found not guilty with a unanimous verdict, which rather tells us about the quality of the claims being made. We wait to see the outcome of DLT’s trial, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a similar outcome. Juries can express remarkable common sense at times and it is a vindication of our jury system that when evidence is placed before them that is flaky, they reject it.
There are a couple of things to bear in mind, here. Firstly, the desire to indulge in a witch-hunt and it is a base desire that is easily fanned and the CPS were willing stooges – they should be ashamed of themselves as should the police. The other is that the claims being made are long past. The past is a foreign country and all that. People behaved differently in the sixties and seventies and while today we would simply not tolerate groping for example, then it was tolerated. To apply standards retrospectively and decades after the offence took place is clearly very wrong. At the time – even if the alleged events took place and there is some doubt about this – the kind of touching being alleged wasn’t considered out of the way. No, it wasn’t nice, but to wait forty years or more and make an allegation that is then very difficult to prove or disprove really should be rejected at the investigation stage – for all we have is that; an allegation and an allegation is not evidence. The time to make the allegation was then, not now. If people have left it for forty years, then left it should remain. But, of course, there was a whiff of money wasn’t there?
This case was a good outcome for our justice system. I hope that the others currently going through turn out likewise. Then, perhaps, we can let Jimmy Savile and his impossible record of sexual offences (alleged) finally rest.
Operation Yewtree is little more than a diversion or smokescreen for the stalled stumbling progress of “Operation Fernbridge” & “Operation Fairbank”, both of which have been going on for two years or more now, with little or no publicity in the Main Stream Media.
http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5188/detectives-investigate-use-of-staging-post-for-elm-guest-house
Operational field officers (the plod in the street) have complained of obstruction from above (in the Met), and the involvement of our “political elite” and other establishment figures…
http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5174/met-s-vip-paedophiles-probe-turns-into-murder-investigation
Throw a few faded DJs to the mob for minor peccadilloes (but advertised as something tottally heinous), but the misbehaviour of the establishment must never be admitted and must always be covered up or concealed.
I always had my suspicions that the witch-hunt was blown out of all proportion as the islamic grooming scandal grew and grew. The accusations about Savile had been around for years before yet got remarkably little media attention until the religion of permanent offence had the spotlight turned upon them.
I very strongly suspect QM is right.
If so, it gives some insight into the raging, psychotic hatred the political/media scum have for the general populace of this country. I used to wonder what precisely I had done to warrant such ire. Now I do everything I can!
Apparently, though, the verdict was a farce and #ibelieveher is trending on Twitter. The trial may be over, but trial by Twitter has begun.
One of the reasons I detest Twitter is that it enables the mob mentality.
Sadly the crown prosecutor felt he had just cause to send the case to trial. As pointed out the chances of proving something which allegedly happened 40 years ago is virtually nil. A complete waste of resources and tax payers money.