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hideous_enigma wrote:Police hand Cliff Richard sexual abuse claims to prosecutors, sources say.

Gandalf wrote:http://news.sky.com/story/1712785/cliff-richard-no-charges-over-sex-abuse-claim

No charges for Cliff

Photek wrote:Richards is tarnished for being a pleb anyway, plus he's what? 98 or something? He lived a long life of pleb-dom before these allegations.

Lagamorph wrote:It really reinforces my opinion that the accused should be anonymous as well until they're actually charged.

Cal wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:It really reinforces my opinion that the accused should be anonymous as well until they're actually charged.

Completely agree. Good to see Sir Cliff has at last - at last, after two years of this - seen the case against him dropped.

Moggy wrote:

Cal wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:It really reinforces my opinion that the accused should be anonymous as well until they're actually charged.

Completely agree. Good to see Sir Cliff has at last - at last, after two years of this - seen the case against him dropped.

It's hard to decide between anonymity for the accused and releasing names so that others may come forward with further evidence/information.

Waiting until somebody is formally charged seems a decent compromise between the two.

KK wrote:

hideous_enigma wrote:Police hand Cliff Richard sexual abuse claims to prosecutors, sources say.

'They were this big officers.'

Moors Murderer Ian Brady was able to mix with vulnerable borstal boys in Wormwood Scrubs prison for more than five years, newly released Home Office files reveal. Even after one young prisoner alleged that Brady had had sex with him, no action was taken for several months, the BBC's Sanchia Berg reports.

For decades he was Britain's most notorious murderer.

Ian Brady and his girlfriend Myra Hindley tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered five children in 1963 and 1964 and buried their bodies on Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester.

Following his conviction in 1966, Brady was initially held at Durham Prison. He was then sent to Parkhurst, and transferred in 1974 to Wormwood Scrubs in London.

Placed in the segregation unit, used for prisoners likely to be attacked, he began a hunger strike in the summer of 1975, demanding to be moved and allowed to associate with other prisoners.

As he lost weight, he was moved to the prison hospital. He was allowed to stay there even after he began eating again, in a room on the Mental Observation Landing, known as G2.

At this time, boys from Feltham Borstal would be sent to Wormwood Scrubs Hospital if they were suffering from mental health problems. They could be as young as 15 - a similar age to some of Brady's victims.

As early as 1976, the prison's principal medical officer had spotted the problem.

"He takes an unusual interest in any adolescent inmate who may be located on the landing and his influence in such a situation is certainly not a wholesome one," he wrote in a report dated 2 September


The staff had had to move boys off the landing to get them away from him, he added.

But despite numerous objections made by staff and others over the years, arguing that Brady should be moved, he stayed on the Mental Observation Landing, and his privileges steadily increased.

Brady was allowed to watch television with other patients and given duties that enabled him to move beyond the landing, cleaning toilets and showers.

He lost his job in Autumn 1981, after a young person reported that Brady had had sex with him, and he was moved back to Parkhurst the following year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-48751178

Moggy wrote:But despite numerous objections made by staff and others over the years, arguing that Brady should be moved, he stayed on the Mental Observation Landing, and his privileges steadily increased.