Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers
There is an excellent article in the Times (subscription required) dated 10th May 2013 concerning the potential for false claims of abuse being made by those who had an association with Jimmy Saville (or any other celebrity or person). Well Worth reading.
Our attention has been drawn to a challenging article by Frank Furedi published on Spike Online here It begins … After Savile: policing as entertainment Operation Yewtree isn’t about solving crime – it’s more like a reality TV format where the police’s aim is to thrill the paedo-fearing public. When, 50 years from now, historians look back [...]
There are two excellent articles on the Justice Gap website, one written by Paul May about the demonisation of hospital nurses and the other by David Rose concerning the thorny topic of the relationship between defence law and journalists. Both well worth reading. Sketch by Isobel Williams In (Nurses) We Trust (?) Paul May kicks off [...]
There is an interesting article in The Times (March 21 2013) written by David Aaronovitch in which he attempts to balance out the often conflicting and competing claims of an imaginary person who was abused by a minor celebrity, and the claims of an imaginary innocent man who has been in the public eye. Imagine you are [...]
Jimmy Saville: A Report for the Director of Public Prosecutions by Alison Levitt Q.C. Extracted below is the the reports introductory summary and the conclusion. For a full understanding of the issues you should read the whole report (here) Introductory Summary This case concerns four allegations that the late Jimmy Savile indecently assaulted girls and [...]
This extract has been taken from ‘This is Jersey’ website here Wildly inaccurate reporting about torture and murder at Haut de la Garenne has been used by Lord Justice Leveson as evidence of how national journalists ‘throw away the rule book’ to sell papers. After hearing months of evidence, Sir Brian published his long-awaited report [...]
Christopher Jefferies , a retired teacher speaks out about his vilification by the press after his wrongful arrest for the murder of Joanna Yeates and still waiting for an apology. Full story The Guardian, 24th November 2012
Conservative peer Lord McAlpine has reached a £125,000 settlement with ITV and Phillip Schofield. It is in relation to a This Morning programme broadcast in November during which the presenter handed the prime minister a list of names of alleged abusers he had found on the internet. Full story BBC News, 22nd November 2012
Users of the social networking site Twitter who wrongly linked Tory peer, Lord McAlpine, with the North Wales care home child abuse scandal, are bracing themselves for a barrage of lawsuits.” Full story
This article first appeated in the Independent on 16th November 2012 Former Conservative politician Lord McAlpine has commenced legal action against a long list of organisations and individuals who wrongly linked him to a paedophile ring after coming to a £185,000 settlement with the BBC. Lawyers representing the peer said action is being prepared against [...]
This item was first reported on the Daily Post website on the 13th November 2012 The BBC’s botched Newsnight programme on the North Wales child abuse scandal failed to complete “basic journalistic checks”, an official report concluded yesterday. And there was confusion about who had the ultimate responsibility for “final editorial sign-off” on the story [...]
First minister Carwyn Jones criticises what he describes as media “hysteria” in recent coverage of the north Wales child abuse scandal of the 1970s and 80s. (more) BBC Newsnight disciplinaries due Shelved child abuse report found
From: Catholic News Agency (CNA) Dublin, Ireland, Apr 4, 2012 Irish broadcaster RTE has ended its current affairs series “Prime Time Investigates” after a news report last year falsely claimed a missionary priest raped and impregnated a minor in Kenya. The move is part of a “full restructuring” to help program makers at all levels accept [...]
From: The Guardian IPCC finds a collective responsibility for failure to disclose undercover officer’s recordings to activists Police have been criticised for their role in withholding crucial surveillance recordings made by undercover policeman Mark Kennedy. The tapes were kept from activists who were being prosecuted for planning to occupy one of Britain’s largest power stations. The contents contained [...]
Chris Jefferries who was wrongly accused of murdering Joanna Yeates informs the Levenson Inquiry that he was falsely accused of being a pervert, gay, bisexual and of being friend of a pedophile
The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, will begin court action on Thursday against two tabloid newspapers over the way they covered the hunt for the killer of Joanna Yeates, the landscape architect whose body was found dumped on Christmas Day in a country lane near Bristol. Grieve has instructed his team to launch contempt of [...]
When Michigan psychologist Demosthenes Lorandos first met former kindergarten teacher Tonya Renee Craft, he was brutally frank about her chances of beating the 22 counts of child abuse and molestation brought against her by a Georgia prosecutor. “I told her that she was a dead woman,” he recalled. “That things were over for her, that [...]
Jim Watts, 57, a former disability bus driver, is serving a 12-and-a-half year jail sentence for sexually assaulting four severely mentally and physically disabled women.But there are serious concerns, raised by his legal team, that Watts, a married father of two, has been the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice, and that his case [...]
BBC Panorama is expected to broadcast a programme on the Government’s Vetting and Barring Scheme which features FACT cases. The programme is expected to be broadcast on Monday 8th Feb commencing 8:30 pm and will also be available on the BBC I player
A three-month investigation by The Mail on Sunday has revealed: David Rose reports: The main witness behind Harper’s decision to begin the search for bodies was a woman with a known history of psychotic fantasy and alcoholism. She named children she said she had seen jumping to their deaths from Haut de la Garenne windows [...]
The following report by Dominic Kennedy, Investigations Editor appeared in the TIMES on 28th February The Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed the authenticity of police notes discovered by The Times which a force had said never existed. They show that a doctor calculated that Paula Gilfoyle died at home at a time when her husband [...]
The 15th of February 2009 marks the 9th anniversary of the publication of Lost In Care (The Waterhouse Report) report of the North Wales Tribunal of Inquiry into [allegations of] abuse in North Wales Children’s Homes sees the publication in paperback of the much acclaimed The Secret of Bryn Estyn – the making of a modern witch [...]
When a deputy police chief announced that children had been killed and buried at a Jersey home, the media were satisfied. But was it true? Throwing a miniature rugby ball around his cramped office in Broadcasting House, the run-down former BBC centre that now serves as a police HQ in Jersey’s capital, St Helier, Detective [...]
For some of the journalists assembled for a Press conference at Jersey’s police headquarters last Wednesday morning, the shock was almost palpable. Since February 23 this year, when the island’s then deputy chief officer, Lenny Harper, first addressed them outside the granite walls of the Haut de la Garenne former children’s home, they had been [...]
Jersey’s police chief was suspended today after confirmation that suspicious bone fragments found at Haut de la Garenne were up to 500 years old, and that there was no evidence to back up claims of murder at a former children’s home dubbed the island’s “house of horrors”. Graham Power, Chief Officer of the States of [...]