Satanic Killing, BBC Broadcaster Stuart Hall admits to sexual abuse of girls

- Satanic killing - victim was 'braaivleis'
- BBC to investigate Stuart Hall abuse as part of Jimmy Savile review
- After Stuart Hall and Savile, the more victims' voices are heard, the better
- Stuart Hall described as 'opportunistic predator' by CPS - video
- Stuart Hall put home in wife's name 'to avoid payouts to victims'
- Stuart Hall admits to sexual abuse of girls
Veteran BBC broadcaster described as 'opportunistic predator' after admitting to assault of 13 girls between 1968 and 1986
- Stuart Hall told 5 Live: 'Any 10-year-old can instruct you in oral or anal sex'
Comments eight years ago had been defended as 'satirical banter' by BBC

Satanic killing - victim was 'braaivleis'
South Africa Friday 26 April 2013

Teenager Kirsty Theologo was referred to as "braaivleis" when her murder in an apparent satanic ritual was being planned, a Johannesburg court heard on Friday.

Theologo was present when this happened, testified Lester Moody, who has confessed to his role in the killing.

He told the High Court, sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court, that the code name was used at a meeting on the Thursday before the fatal ritual on October 21, 2011.

The meeting was held to plan the details of her murder.

Moody, who has entered into a plea bargain with the State, was testifying against Lindon Wagner, Robin Harwood, Harvey Isha and Courtney Daniels.

He has been sentenced to 17 years in jail for his role in the murder, five years of which were suspended.

The four accused have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, attempted murder and assault to cause grievous bodily harm....
http://www.enca.com/south-africa/satan-killing-victim-was-braaivleis


BBC to investigate Stuart Hall abuse as part of Jimmy Savile review
Lord Patten says there will be no separate inquiry into how disgraced broadcaster Stuart Hall gained access to victims      guardian.co.uk, Sunday 5 May 2013

Stuart Hall, above, admitted indecently assaulting 13 girls during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. The BBC may be liable to pay compensation to the victims, says Lord Patten.

There will not be a second inquiry into how broadcaster Stuart Hall was able to abuse his victims while working at the BBC, the chairman of the corporation's trust has said.

Lord Patten said instead a review by Dame Janet Smith into the Jimmy Savile scandal would also investigate how Hall – who has admitted indecently assaulting 13 girls during the 1960s, 70s and 80s – gained access to his victims.

Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Patten said the BBC was also likely to face compensation claims from Hall's victims....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/05/bbc-stuart-hall-jimmy-savile-review


After Stuart Hall and Savile, the more victims' voices are heard, the better
Stuart Hall's admission of sexual offences has brought the abuse scandal that started with Jimmy Savile back into the headlines. It's painful, but important, that victims are now speaking out
Suzanne Moore         The Guardian, Friday 3 May 2013

....This is why today, when I hear the voices of Hall's victims, I would argue that naming the suspects (which enabled some women to come forward) remains powerful. Some of these women have been silent for a very long time. When Susan Harrison, whom Hall plied with alcohol then assaulted, told her father after returning home in tears, he said: "He is famous and we are nobodies. Nobody is going to believe you if you tell." Unless victims waive their right to anonymity, the victims do indeed remain nobodies. Harrison felt guilty, worrying that Hall may go on to abuse others, which he did. She later suffered from depression.

Kim Wright, another of Hall's victims, was watching the news about Savile when she decided to make a formal complaint. She is a policewoman who has worked in child protection. "I've always felt what Stuart Hall did to me is not something he'd do once, that it was part of some kind of modus operandi." Wright felt that if the police could tell other victims they were not the only one, they would have the courage to come forward. And she was right. "When he picked on me," she said, "he picked on the wrong person."....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/03/stuart-hall-savile-victims-voices


Stuart Hall described as 'opportunistic predator' by CPS - video
The Crown Prosecution Service issues a statement outside court after Stuart Hall, the veteran BBC broadcaster, admitted assaulting 13 girls between 1968 and 1986. Nazir Afzal, chief crown prosecutor for north-west England, describes Hall as an 'opportunistic predator', saying he established a pattern of behaviour that was 'unlawful' and for which no innocent explanation could be offered
    Source: ITN     Thursday 2 May 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2013/may/02/stuart-hall-predator-cps-video
http://goo.gl/m7qpb

Stuart Hall put home in wife's name 'to avoid payouts to victims'
Disgraced BBC broadcaster, who signed over property valued at £1.2m February, faces compensation claims
    Josh Halliday, Barry Neild and Maggie Brown
    guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 May 2013
Stuart Hall, 83, has admitted indecently assaulting girls, the youngest of whom was nine. He will be sentenced in June. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA

The disgraced broadcaster Stuart Hall is facing accusations that he recently transferred ownership of his home to his wife in a deliberate attempt to avoid paying compensation to his victims.

Land Registry documents show that Hall's detached property in Wilmslow, Cheshire – said to be worth £1.2m – was placed under sole proprietorship of Hazel Hall on 22 February of this year. The transfer occurred less than a fortnight after Hall denied indecently assaulting 13 young girls, calling allegations against him "pernicious, callous, cruel and above all spurious". He has since admitted all counts.

At least six of Hall's victims are set to sue as a result of the "enormous suffering" inflicted on them by the former It's a Knockout presenter. The BBC is also said to be facing huge compensation claims for sexual abuse that may have occurred on the corporation's premises....

Land Registry documents show that until February, Hall and his wife had jointly owned the home since 1981. Hall told the Daily Telegraph he had transferred the deeds because he has "an extreme heart condition and at any moment I'm likely to pop off"....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/04/stuart-hall-home


Stuart Hall admits to sexual abuse of girls
Veteran BBC broadcaster described as 'opportunistic predator' after admitting to assault of 13 girls between 1968 and 1986
    Nigel Bunyan      guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 May 2013
Stuart Hall, the veteran BBC broadcaster, has been described as an "opportunistic predator" by the Crown Prosecution Service after he admitted to a string of historic sex offences against girls.

Three months after dismissing the allegations as "pernicious, callous, cruel and, above all, spurious", the 83-year-old was forced to admit that his accusers had been telling the truth.

Hall, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, first made the admissions at a brief hearing at Preston crown court on 16 April. But they could not be reported because he was facing trial over an allegation that he raped a 22-year-old woman in 1976. On Thursday it emerged that the rape case had been left to lie on the file, along with three other allegations of indecent assault....
Earlier, Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, said Hall's 13 victims had been aged between nine and 17. They were abused between 1968 and 1986....

In a statement issued later on his behalf, Brabners Chaffe Street said: "Stuart Hall confirms that he has pleaded guilty to 14 charges of indecent assault. Mr Hall deeply and sincerely regrets his actions. He wishes to issue an unreserved apology to the individuals concerned. He now accepts his behaviour and actions were completely wrong and he is very remorseful....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/02/stuart-hall-admits-sexual-abuse-girls


Stuart Hall told 5 Live: 'Any 10-year-old can instruct you in oral or anal sex'
Comments eight years ago had been defended as 'satirical banter' by BBC
    John Plunkett     The Guardian, Thursday 2 May 2013

When Stuart Hall appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live eight years ago telling listeners: "Your average 10-year-old can instruct you in oral or anal sex," the corporation defended his comments as "satirical banter".

The veteran broadcaster's admission, revealed on Thursday, of a string of historic sex offences against girls aged between nine and 17 casts his comments in a different, horrific light. Hall made the comments in a 2005 edition of 5 Live's Saturday morning panel show, Fighting Talk.

Living up to his reputation for outspoken views and colourful language, Hall told the programme that Zimbabwean cricketers should "black up" and branded Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, a "witch doctor"....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/02/stuart-hall-5-live-instruct-sex