Perhaps, but Cyril Smith was protected by the national secrets act by thatcher (though more people were involved than her, I’ll admit) I imagine not giving the knighthood ( thus having to justify it) would have meant imprisonment or being shot.
Jimmy Savile - Sexual Predator
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Soldato
But thanks to the private eye article it would have been common knowledge. The whole thing stinks tbh.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...igated-Cyril-Smith-says-ashamed-cover-up.html
Interesting article.
Interesting article.
Don
At least the scum bag paedo officer killed himself I suppose.
That’s no justice, certainly not for the dozens, hundreds, thousands of kids who’ve been destroyed by these powerful people.
I imagine most of them are homeless or dead by their own suicide from the torment.
Don
I doubt there was ever going to be justice though sadly.
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This thread has to be one of the worst aged threads in OCUK history. Absolutely sickening individual and the comments on page one just show how he got away with it. People knew what he was and turned a blind eye.
I've just watched the Netflix documentary and it is truly shocking he was never caught. He alluded to it publicly so, so many times. And why has King Charles and co never been held to account for at best helping him get away with it?
I've just watched the Netflix documentary and it is truly shocking he was never caught. He alluded to it publicly so, so many times. And why has King Charles and co never been held to account for at best helping him get away with it?
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The posts on the first few pages are from before the public knew he was a wrongun.
The average person did not know he was a wrongun until the stories started coming out in the media.
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Not all, some posts from people that had met him/knew of him and pointed out exactly what he was like. Why were they not reported.
Soldato
This. If the public haven't been given any evidence then you would expect them to presume it isn't true. Once the evidence started coming out the tide quickly turned. Its not down to the public to hold such people to account, that is on the state and its agents.
Soldato
Really? People knew he was a 'wrongun', as you say, way back when. Hell, Johnny Rotten was banned from the BBC for calling Savile out on his noncery back in 1978.
Soldato
First look at Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile in BBC drama The Reckoning
Coogan, 57, can be seen sporting one of Savile’s tradmark shell suits with a cigar in hand
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We must have different settings for posts per page then
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There are a couple of posts that have aged extremely well but a lot of them badly.
My Mum told me he was a wrong-un years before he died. And that was just from watching him on TV.
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Private Eye has called him a paedo for years. He never tried to sue them though.
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Unbelievable, I've just seen this thread and the very first thing I thought of was I wonder if @Wizzkidy will be asking for the evidence and @Dialup saying he shouldn't be named because of his friends & family
Here's the other thing, the nonce never went to court and found guilty.
Louis Theroux questioned him on it also
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it's salacious, poor taste that bbc/itv etc have to make these true-crime dramas (ratings?) never watch any of them
not really sure why actors participate - Spall in 6thcommandment thing, tenant nielsen, christopher jeffries(bristol guy), Does Coogan need the money.
Hearing about Gladstone descendants paying reparations today(but, how much really ?) did any of Savilles victims get help, or will bbc/itv contribute to charities.
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There's some signature-worthy posts in those first few pages!