Senior political figure [UK] threatens to sue BBC over paedophile claims

[Bosonic]

Source: The Telegraph

A senior poltical figure has threatened to sue the BBC after claims that one of its flagship news programmes planned to out him as a paedophile.

A Newsnight investigation into the man is currently being legalled by the BBC, who have today refused to comment.

However Iain Overton, editor of the London-base Bureau of Investigation, claimed yesterday morning: "We've got a Newsnight out tonight about a very senior political figure who is a paedophile".

Michael Crick, a former Newsnight presenter and now a political correspondent with Channel 4 News, later said: "[A] 'senior political figure' due to be accused tonight by BBC of being paedophile denies allegations and tells me he'll issue a libel writ agains the BBC."

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/9651321/Senior-political-figure-threatens-to-sue-BBC-over-paedophile-claims.html

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crickey

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Great, BBC knows who he is, HE knows who he is

but the voters do not know.
Hope they run the program.
Better yet.....where are the phone hackers when you need them?

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Extremely unlikely any 'Thatcher-era' politician is still up for election

n his new interview, Mr Meesham also said that he had gone to the police in the late 1970s to report the abuse, but that he was not believed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20182106

The Tory MPs from that time are pretty much all retired. I can think of just one still in the cabinet (and he seems so unlikely that I'm not going to bother naming him, because search engine hits of unfounded speculation would just make things worse). It's a matter of handing what they have over to the police, not the voters, I think.