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PostPosted: 14:19 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Operation Yewtrees first guilty verdict... Reply with quote

Appears they've actually managed to successfully prosecute someone finally Rolling Eyes

Of all the people it could of been - Max Clifford.

Going to take an awful lot of PR to get a good spin on that outcome Thinking

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/28/max-clifford-guilty-indecent-assault-teenage-girls
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PostPosted: 14:34 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

The way theyve gone about this whole thing has been disgusting. I'm glad Jim Davidson won CBB, the guy needed a fucking break after the last few years, getting your name publicly dragged through the operation yewtree celebrity witch-hunt when your innocent is the stuff of fucking nightmares!
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PostPosted: 14:40 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

orangepeeleo wrote:
The way theyve gone about this whole thing has been disgusting. I'm glad Jim Davidson won CBB, the guy needed a fucking break after the last few years, getting your name publicly dragged through the operation yewtree celebrity witch-hunt when your innocent is the stuff of fucking nightmares!


Is that you Rolf?

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PostPosted: 14:43 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe the jury just got bored of the same articles everyday and thought they'd start a new trend Laughing
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PostPosted: 14:59 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

The CPS were bound to get the 'correct' type of jurors if they tried enough times.
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PostPosted: 15:13 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

GhostRider wrote:

Is that you Rolf?

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PostPosted: 15:43 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am just glad Clifford is off our screens for the foreseeable future unless he launches some sort of appeal.
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PostPosted: 17:22 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Couldn't have happened to a nicer chap.

Enjoy having yourself ripped a new one inside.
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PostPosted: 17:28 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Raffles wrote:
The CPS were bound to get the 'correct' type of jurors if they tried enough times.


There's no real info on the offences themselves - everything is reported in general language, apart from the guilt embellishment. I think this is the most telling part of the story:

bbc wrote:
"He exploited their vulnerabilities, using lies and coercion to get what he wanted,"


It's quite scary that lying and persuading are considered sexual assault. There's no suggestion of violence or threats in the articles.

The bit about the 15 year old is also not criminal... The articles say he met the girl in Spain and there's no suggestion he did anything with girls under-age in the relevant countries. Distasteful, but not illegal...

I expect the appeals to go well or sentencing to be spectacularly lenient.

And yewtree still yet to bag a paedo...
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PostPosted: 17:32 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Re: Operation Yewtrees first guilty verdict... Reply with quote

-Matt- wrote:
Appears they've actually managed to successfully prosecute someone finally Rolling Eyes

I don't believe it, I think it's just a PR stunt.
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PostPosted: 18:12 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Particularly like the press reaction in his press appearance outside court.

'I've been told by my solicitors to say nothing at all'

'Do you want to say sorry to these women Max?'



Errr Laughing


The irony of him giving the press a pound of flesh and then bottling the press conference is making me giggle just ever so slightly.
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PostPosted: 19:24 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Raffles wrote:
The CPS were bound to get the 'correct' type of jurors if they tried enough times.

Or the correct type of accused.
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PostPosted: 19:28 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

So he got into girls' pants by lying about getting them parts in movies and didn't deliver? How's that sexual assault? Fraud maybe. But they were willingly whoring themselves for gain (that they got stiffed on. Har...stiffed on).
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PostPosted: 19:31 - 28 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interested to see what sort of sentance gets passed down depending on the full extent of the charges.

Would look a bit ridiculous if after the circus yewtrees been so far they give out some piss-poor sentance for the first conviction Laughing

Sure clifford isn't overly popular with anyone either, less likely to cause an outcry from any innocent-callers if they do make an example.
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PostPosted: 00:47 - 29 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clifford is a greasy ol' krunt as far as professional bullshitters go. Probably the slipperiest of 'em all but I don't reckon his appeal will go very well 'cos he has pissed off a lot of privileged twats in his time & they don't forget. The consensus among the 'old boy' network is probably bang him up with Chas Bronson.
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PostPosted: 03:38 - 29 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

orangepeeleo wrote:

I'm glad Jim Davidson won CBB, the guy needed a fucking break....


Well, he got a Big one Smile
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PostPosted: 09:01 - 29 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whoa whoa whoa.... from the BBC news site:

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Decades later, the victim wrote Clifford an anonymous letter, which police found in his bedside table when they searched his home.

In the letter she accused Clifford of taking pleasure in degrading her, giving him an "A+ in grooming children".


...I'm supposed to believe he kept this letter in a bedside table, easily accessible to any and all? The guy might be a cunt, but he's not a fucking idiot, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to pad out his lucrative career. Stinks of stitch up if you ask me.

Thing is, this guy has been covering up other peoples dirt and mishaps for decades, I remember an undercover interview with him in "Starsuckers" where he states he's helped countless MPs and their ilk cover up cocaine fueled binges with hookers, so I would not be in the least bit surprised if he comes out of it all relatively well, after all he'll no doubt be calling in many favours which will likely be met to keep him schtum. He's knows this game better than most and is likely just biding his time, until the inevitable book deal rears itself.

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PostPosted: 10:16 - 29 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

^^^
Wank bank.
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PostPosted: 10:42 - 29 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Danger Wank Bank then.

Given that 70's/80's celebs were being targeted in the dozens you'd think that given half a brain you'd destroy absolutely anything slightly incriminating.

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PostPosted: 10:53 - 29 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mad Max

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PostPosted: 14:17 - 29 Apr 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, hang on, I've just stopped laughing long enough to get to the end of the article.

TFA wrote:
In another alleged assault, which was not a charge on the indictment because it took place abroad, Clifford is said to have [fiddled a kiddy]

Oh, by the way, no intent to prove it, just thought the jury might be interested to hear a bit of tittle-tattle...

There may be precedent for that, but I expect his lawyers will have a field day with it on appeal.
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PostPosted: 14:51 - 02 May 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dance! Publicise this you beauties Dance!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27259318

Dance! (I wonder what will happen on appeal) Dance!
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PostPosted: 15:34 - 02 May 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Toilet paper on prisons is from recycled sources, that means with any luck he'll be wiping his arse with some of the crap he's written. Mr. Green
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