Max Clifford arrested on suspicion of sexual offences

[essayer]

The story that never ends

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20627765

[scenario8]

Rather a surprise indeed. Who's going to do his PR?

Don't we think we should keep all these (admittedly not necessarily directly related) stories in the Jimmy Savile thread?

[uk66fastback]

The biter bit

Edit: not related to Savile apparently ...

Stuart Hall though, I couldn't believe ffs ... so someone can make a claim about someone well known and they then get arrested and their career could be over? ! Bizarre ... what kind of proof are these people having? DOn't think DNA is going to work 30 years on ...

[johnvthe2nd]

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[Pothole]

uk66fastback said:

The biter bit

Edit: not related to Savile apparently ...

Stuart Hall though, I couldn't believe ffs ... so someone can make a claim about someone well known and they then get arrested and their career could be over? ! Bizarre ... what kind of proof are these people having? DOn't think DNA is going to work 30 years on ...

Stuart Hall is in his 80s. Perhaps an enforced break from work is a good thing.

[scenario8]

As just mentioned in the JS thread it is at least possible MC was arrested and is being questioned on his knowledge of previous offences not his acts.

Be careful what you type!

[Wills2]

Christ on a bike, what the hell is going on.

[Vieste]

Who is next?

[smegmore]

On Sky news just now...

Reporter Martin Brunt said that 'The person arrested was not named by Scotland Yard but we know that it is Max Clifford'.

This is a fking travesty, if the arrested person is named officially by the police then fair enough to report it IMO but otherwise the person should not be identified to the public by Sky or anyone else.

Trial by media.

[simoid]

scenario8 said:

As just mentioned in the JS thread it is at least possible MC was arrested and is being questioned on his knowledge of previous offences not his acts.

Be careful what you type!

BBC Article said:

Scotland Yard said officers had arrested a man in his 60s "on suspicion of sexual offences" and had taken him to central London police station.

[wiggy001]

Vieste said:

Who is next?

Whoever you want it to be if you fancy going to the police and saying "<insert ageing celeb here> touched me"

[Teppic]

Vieste said:

Who is next?

Anyone with a cock and balls the way things are going...

[scenario8]

Teppic said:

Vieste said:

Who is next?

Anyone with a cock and balls the way things are going...

That's Hitler off the hook, then.

[Changedmyname]

I think it was said a while back that the police are reviewing a fair few cases.

No doubt more to come.

[TimJMS]

Could be anyone, since the accusers clearly have nothing to lose, anyone is fair game. Rather ruins it somewhat for those genuinely aggrieved.

Its all becoming a whiplash claim.

[Amirhussain]

scenario8 said:

Teppic said:

Vieste said:

Who is next?

Anyone with a cock and balls the way things are going...

That's Hitler off the hook, then.

Haha

[smegmore]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

smegmore said:

Trial by media.

Live by the sword.....

My personal view of Clifford is that he is a fking slug but he should be entitled to the protection of his privacy in law, the same as you or I. If he is found by due process to be guilty of any sexual offences against minors or anyone else for that matter then he deserves to have the book thrown at him, purely because he IS guilty and not because he is a celebity's mouthpiece.

All that will be said now by the media and general public is 'guilty by association, no smoke without fire' etc.

[Derek Smith]

smegmore said:

On Sky news just now...

Reporter Martin Brunt said that 'The person arrested was not named by Scotland Yard but we know that it is Max Clifford'.

This is a fking travesty, if the arrested person is named officially by the police then fair enough to report it IMO but otherwise the person should not be identified to the public by Sky or anyone else.

Trial by media.

It was probably Clifford who informed Sky.

Out of everyone in the country, Clifford cannot complain about the press.

[FurtiveFreddy]

smegmore said:

if the arrested person is named officially by the police then fair enough to report it IMO but otherwise the person should not be identified to the public by Sky or anyone else.

Max Clifford tipped them off...;)

ETA:Derek beat me to it!

[smegmore]

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