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A man who accused X Factor judge Louis Walsh of sexual assault has been charged with making false claims.
Leonard Watters, 24, of Navan, Co Meath, initially claimed that 58-year-old Walsh had groped him at the Krystle nightclub in Dublin after a Westlife concert in June.
He appeared in court yesterday in Dublin and is facing two charges of lying to gardai.
He was charged in June with one court of making a false statement on June 20th and the second charge relates to a statement he made to gardai on June 27th.
Walsh, who was questioned by police over the claims, denied the ...
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‘X Factor’ judge Louis Walsh says he has ”changed forever” after being falsely accused of sexual assault, an ordeal which has made him ”physically ill”.
Louis Walsh says he has “changed forever” after being falsely accused of sexual assault.
The ‘X Factor’ judge – who has been cleared of accusations that he indecently assaulted a 24-year-old father in the toilets of a Dublin nightclub in April – admits the past few weeks have taken their toll on him and he has been “physically ill” because of it.
He told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: “I’ve changed ...
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Dave Jones talks about his ordeal, in the Liverpool Daily post.
Former Everton star Dave Jones tells Paddy Shennan about the horror of being falsely accused of child abuse
And regarding the anger he directs towards the police in the book, he says: “I want to make it quite clear I am only targeting this one department in the police force – I have family and friends in the police. And I know the Crown Prosecution Service has a hard job, but I think one CPS person didn’t do their job properly.”
Does he still wonder how his case got all the way ...
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In 1999 Dave Jones’s world was devastated by wrongful charges of child sex abuse. in an autobiography to be published shortly he reveals the damage it did to his family and his football career.
Matthew Syed, The Times reports
It was at the moment the door to the police interview room clanked shut that Dave Jones knew something was horribly wrong. The place was dank and windowless. It smelt like a hospital ward with paint peeling off the walls. Fear seemed to engulf the manager of Southampton Football Club as he sat there, alone, waiting. He was jolted from his thoughts ...
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A BBC personality has shattered her ex-boyfriend’s life by falsely accusing him of rape.
The woman, who has broadcast to television audiences of millions, accused him of raping her 40 times throughout their two-and-a-half-year relationship.
He was arrested, held in a police cell and handcuffed as police searched his flat for evidence of his crime. But she retracted her allegation weeks later, and the officer investigating the claims described them as ‘inconsistent’ and ‘not credible’.
Despite the lack of evidence, the incident remains on the Police National Computer thanks to a legal loophole, which campaigners say is blighting the lives of falsely accused ...
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Barry George has been found not guilty of murdering BBC television presenter Jill Dando outside her London home.
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In what will have resonance among FACT cases the barrister for Barry George, cleared of killing presenter Jill Dando, has warned that huge publicity can distort investigations into high-profile cases.
William Clegg QC said the media pressure on the authorities to find the perpetrator could affect the police’s objectivity.
Mr George, 48, was cleared on Friday of murdering Miss Dando, 37, on the doorstep of her London home in 1999.
The Crown Prosecution Service has said it was right to take the case to court.
Mr Clegg told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme: “All these cases that attract widespread publicity put huge pressure on ...
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Ex-England and Manchester United striker Andrew Cole today accepted a formal apology and substantial damages at London’s High Court after the Daily Star branded him a “wife-beater”.
Cole, who recently signed for League One side Nottingham Forest, sued the paper’s publisher Express Newspapers over the 26 February article headlined Footie Cole is ˜wife beater”, published the day after Cole was arrested by Cheshire Police on suspicion of assault following an incident at a house in Alderley Edge.
Cole’s solicitor, Rachel Atkins, told judge Mr Justice David Eady today that Cole had been released on bail on 26 February, and that all charges ...
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Former care worker David Jones was cleared last week of child sex charges, after falling victim to police ‘trawling’. The Government must halt this senseless folly now, argues child abuse campaigner Richard Webster.
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‘It was the worst thing somebody could possibly accuse you of. He said he’d rather be up for murder than something like this because he’s so anti-abuse.’ These words were spoken last year by Ann Jones, the wife of former Southampton football manager David Jones. She was describing her husband’s reaction to the multiple allegations of sexual abuse he was facing.
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Anne Jones still recalls with frightening clarity the moment one of her four children asked her: “Has my Daddy got to go to jail? “For the last 18 months she has continued to bear the pain of knowing that her husband stood accused of a string of sexual offences against young boys. It counted for nothing that David Jones, now 44, was the manager of a Premiership soccer club. Nor, indeed, that he was entirely innocent. Suddenly he was made to feel like an unconvicted paedophile.Ann Jones had been his childhood sweetheart in Merseyside, and it was her whom he ...
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