Broadcaster Stuart Hall has admitted 14 charges of indecently assaulting girls as young as nine years old.

The 83-year-old from Wilmslow, Cheshire pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to the offences, involving 13 victims, which occurred between 1967 and 1985.

I wonder how peoples memories have change over the years due to their imagination? It's like chinese whispers. A tiny tiny change each time you thing about it. Eventually it changes beyond all recognistion.

Can imaging the questioning in the police station:
Police: What where you doing on the evening of May 15th 1967?
Suspect: How the [LIFTED] should I know. It was over 45 years ago.

I wonder how peoples memories have change over the years due to their imagination? It's like chinese whispers. A tiny tiny change each time you thing about it. Eventually it changes beyond all recognistion.

I'm probably going to get slaughtered for failing to properly articulate my thoughts on this, but here goes...

I'm probably going to get slaughtered for failing to properly articulate my thoughts on this, but here goes...

How many of these indecent assaults were actually accepted "slap and tickle" incidents? We look back on that era now our skin crawls at what was considered acceptable behaviour then, but it WAS acceptable. Benny Hill leering at scantily clad girls was prime time entertainment a few decades ago too. No, I'm not talking about feeling up a 9 year old girl, and I'm not referring to Stuart Hall's case specifically, but I don't believe the british entertainment industry was one massive sex-pest social club.

In terms of underage sex, many of the men would not necessarily know the age of the person as the person was consenting.

True but, in the eyes of the law, I didn't know is not a credible defence.

However, I doubt the defendants will even remember the individual encounters. A dolled up fifteen year old girl gets drunk at an after-show party and ends up in bed with a drunk guy who probably shared a bed with a different girl at the previous week's after-show party. He won't remember her face, let alone her name or whether she actually looked old enough to drink alcohol or consent to sex.

What does he say in court? "did I have casual sex three decades ago with random girls/women?", "yes". "Did I have sex three decades ago with that particular girl?", "how the hell should I know?".

Many of these cases are during the sixties and seventies and attitudes were immensely different then. People openly used the term Nig-nog and Paki openly, even comics, and before Jim Davidson. It was post the Pill and women were celeb crazy, no killer disease like Aids then either. Girls from my school at 15 got to appear on Top of the Pops even though it was a 18 plus event. Few of the boys got in, as they did not look old enough (I never tried). So I will accept that what took place in many situations then, would not be viewed so well today. In terms of underage sex, many of the men would not necessarily know the age of the person as the person was consenting.

An episode of Only Fools and Horses had the like “going down the paki’s for a magazine” - the racial epithet was in the line, and like it or not, reflected the lingo of the time.

I tried searching for that line and ended up in a white nationalist website. They have some messed up ideas in there with the belief that the Jews are out to get them, that multiculturalism is a way of taking the world over etc.