Nevertheless, Glitter was convicted, even though most of the other evidence against him was of a similar quality or lack thereof. This sort of nonsense is not tolerated in the United States where there are statutes of limitations, nor would it be tolerated under sharia. If there have been mistakes with the chronology, I can’t defend that, but what I can say is that everything I remember about the events I remember as clear as if it was yesterday.”īut, the BBC report continued: “The woman had previously told jurors she remembered a particular room in the basement of the house where she was allegedly attacked.Īfter being shown a plan of the property she agreed that this could not have been the case as there was no basement.” To this, the witness is said to have replied: “No I have not. “These allegations are totally untrue and you have been exposed by the chronology.” Glitter was represented by Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC who challenging evidence that is now four decades old pointed out to one of her client’s accusers that the events she described could not have happened in 1975 because the property on which they had allegedly taken place had not yet been bought. Then there is the fact that a woman’s tears are irresistable to women as well as men. The evidence against Glitter was paradoxically both extremely weak and extremely powerful weak because much of it was factually incorrect if not outright dishonest powerful because of brainwashing by anti-rape activists (so-called), whose ludicrous proposition that sexual assault victims seldom if ever lie has been plugged remorselessly by the media - including the BBC - for decades, and is now accepted as holy writ even by the police. Others have found similar sinister meanings in a joke by Rolf Harris, and Bill Cosby’s Spanish Fly comedy routine. After his conviction, the Independent newspaper dug out what it called “ Chilling footage” of Glitter making a playful shhh gesture to her. In 1992, he was the subject of a This Is Your Life programme one of the guests therein was Tessa Dahl - the daughter of the author Roald Dahl and the mother of the model Sophie Dahl. Unlike some of the allegations made against other celebrities, in particular Jimmy Tarbuck and Jim Davidson, there was credible evidence that he had actually met some of the girls he was alleged to have abused. The questions must be asked however: is he really guilty, and did he or any other victim of the Operation Yewtree witch-hunt receive a fair trial? Mr Gadd’s antecedents were well known to the general public and hence to the jury, so he is unlikely to receive much sympathy.
Last week, Gary Glitter was convicted of sexually abusing three underage girls.
Gary Glitter has been convicted of historic sex offences, but is his conviction safe?
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