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Roy Harper Dirty Old Cricketer

Post by cronus » Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:26 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-he ... r-24955436

Folk singer Roy Harper charged with child sex offences

Folk singer Roy Harper has been charged with sexually abusing a girl from the age of 12.

The 72-year-old is due before Hereford Magistrates' Court on Monday accused of nine counts of sexual assault.

West Mercia Police said the offences are alleged to have been committed in Herefordshire between 1975 and 1977 and relate to one victim.

Mr Harper, who lives in the Republic of Ireland, has performed with Pink Floyd and was an influence on Led Zeppelin.

The summons was issued to the musician, of Rossmore, Clonakilty, County Cork, on 16 October, after he was voluntarily interviewed by police at Heathrow Airport on 22 February.

Mr Harper has produced more than 30 albums during his career and performed on a sold out tour, last month.

(continued, another hero gone bad... :read: )
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Post by Jason » Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:34 pm

Hat's off Roy Harper.

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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:40 pm

This one really hit me. I like the stoned, old twat. And essential part of my misspent youth. I hope it turns out to be bollocks. :(
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Post by Audley Strange » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:15 pm

And yet Noel Edmonds still roams free.
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Post by cronus » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:19 pm

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts ... 2102946725

BBC to investigate Pugwash rumours

THE BBC is to launch a £10m probe into claims of sexually suggestive language in its 1970s cartoons.

The inquiry will focus on previously false allegations that popular children’s programme Captain Pugwash included references to masturbation, under-age sex and seminal fluid.

A spokesman said: “We think it may have been used to send coded messages to members of a paedophilia ring at the very top of the British establishment.

“Also, we’ve decided that a ‘Pugwash’ means being urinated on simultaneously by four Radio One DJs.”

The Pugwash inquiry forms part of larger £400m BBC investigation into every single thing that was said, done or thought about in Britain between 1970 and 1985.

Meanwhile, a separate £30m probe will attempt to find out how its radio headquarters in central London came to be named ‘Bush House’.

The spokesman added: “We would prefer if you didn’t call it a ‘probe’. We think that’s inappropriate.”

(continued, anything left of 1970s culture?)
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Post by klr » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:35 pm

Wait ... he lives in Clonakilty? One of my brothers lived there for years. He might have an inside track on this.
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Post by JimC » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:48 pm

"That was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead"

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Post by klr » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:53 pm

JimC wrote:"That was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead"

Shakespeare?
Let Google be thine friend.

... it sez The Jew of Malta (Marlowe) :drama:

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Post by JimC » Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:02 pm

klr wrote:
JimC wrote:"That was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead"

Shakespeare?
Let Google be thine friend.

... it sez The Jew of Malta (Marlowe) :drama:

Quoted in turn by T.S. Eliot, and others.
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Post by Tero » Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:05 pm

And Jimmy Saville is off the hook for this one.

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Post by cronus » Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:02 am

Tero wrote:And Jimmy Saville is off the hook for this one.
...and Cliff Richard still walks free. :read:
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Post by JimC » Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:30 am

Scrumple wrote:
Tero wrote:And Jimmy Saville is off the hook for this one.
...and Cliff Richard still walks free. :read:
He is being secretly protected by The Loved Ones Mafia...
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Post by mistermack » Sat Nov 16, 2013 5:06 pm

I don't understand how I've never heard of him. I might have heard the name, I'm not sure, but the face and music I definitely haven't seen before. But I just looked on youtube, and don't think I missed much.

Especially the sickly bullshit between songs. Not my kind of music either.

Cases like this make me wonder if the standard of proof has been dropped recently in sex abuse cases.
If it was reported and not prosecuted in the seventies, it would presumably be because of a weak case. The only way a case could get stronger after nearly forty years would be if a witness changed their story, or finally decided to talk.
That could have happened I suppose.
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Post by JacksSmirkingRevenge » Sat Nov 16, 2013 5:21 pm

Audley Strange wrote:And yet Noel Edmonds still roams free.
...Not to mention The Krankies. They have to be violating some law, surely? Performing an unnatural act, maybe? :smoke:
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Post by cronus » Sat Nov 16, 2013 7:39 pm

He's denied everything vigorously via Twitter and never struck me as a kiddy fiddler in that his musical lyrics where always aimed mature and above mature. Will have to wait and see. Could have been stoned back in the seventies and have lost it, not that that is any excuse....but a reasonable explanation for one I wouldn't like to delete from my collection, really. Unlike Cliff Richard. :nono:
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