DLT arrested on suspicion of sexual offences.

[shooty]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20336798

[Nibble]

Obviously, the BBC hasn't yet learned from the baiting of Lord McAlpine, as Mr Travis has not been officially named by police to quote from their own website.....

[Nibble]

As the police haven't named the person arrested, then any speculation will be sub-judacy until the details are released by the relevant authorities, IMO

[shooty]

I agree Nibble. I have not put link up for me to debate. Thought chatterbank might like to know.

[tonyav]

I saw it on the news a bit earlier on, gawd I can't believe it, not the ' Hairy Cornflake.

[jackthehat]

http://www.dailymail....se-investigation.html

It's here, too.

[albaqwerty]

I think there will be a lot more over the coming months. If you presented TOTP I'd be worried.
There's no smoke without fire and mud sticks are phrases which spring to mind.

[Nibble]

Being discussed here too, shooty

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1188508.html

[dotty.]

I could easily add 4 names to the list, it might appear I was speculating, but there's alot about what was happening in the late 1970s when my boyfriend ran a mobile discoteque that has become a distant memory, I do know that in the 1970s the teen fans of DJs treated them like pop stars.

[Psybbo]

I really must make an appointment with Specsavers, I keep seeing this as DT arrested..............

[sandyRoe]

Does anyone remember Simon Dee? He was a big star, TV chat shows the lot, and yet he vanished from the screens as though the earth had opened and swallowed him.
I'm not saying he was guilty of anything but his fall shows that none of them were bigger than the broadcasters they worked for.

[sandyRoe]

then sheep may safely graze

[Psybbo]

Sandy, maybe you should ask to have that removed - just to be safe?

[sandyRoe]

simon dee is gone to the studio in the sky. or did you mean the sheepish remark?

[plautus]

Does anyone remember the relatively neutral expression, "...assisting the police with their enquiries?"

Should DLT be subsequently cleared of any involvement, then he now has a cast iron case to bankrupt the BBC for libel. This is appalling!

[dotty.]

i remember simon dee's case well

[askyourgran]

I mentioned that in a post a while ago dotty. Teenagers used to flock around all the DJ's and pop singers, it must have been open season for anyone of them who liked younger children. Not just DLT but Jonathan King and John Peel I believe have been investigated before, there could have been more. Now JS is toast and so is John Peel, Jonathan King and Gary G have already done time and Freddy S (69) is shaking like a s88ing dog besides his wife (34) pleading innocence. What real proof can be got from all this now? Brian Messing was mistaken about Lord McAlpine and mud will stick.

[plautus]

I tend to agree. Whilst in no way condoning abuse of minors, I cannot help but feel that the children involved were more than happy to go along with it at the time, and that only now have the $$ signs appeared in their eyes.

[237SJ]

A few weeks ago DLT said he would be "more than happy" to answer questions regarding allegations against him. The old adage "be careful what you wish for" is certainly true in his case.

[yogi-bear]

Say it isnt so!......could not believe it when I heard this...The hairy monster..noooooooo..he was one of my idols in the 70's. :(

Dotty,

DJ's were treated like pop stars in the 70's especially if they had media exposure such as TOTP appearances, Radio Roadshow gigs all over the country and shows on TV starring Mike Read, Mike Smith, Noel Edmonds, Peter Powell, David Hamilton etc

It's the ones that took advantage of this stardom that I have absolutely no sympathy for, as it's just an abuse of trust and decency that was carried out.

The quicker more are named, the better imo..... BUT two questions in particular that niggle me are:

1. Why have these numerous abuse allegations surfaced NOW, after the wake of the Savile exposition?.

2. Why were they NOT reported to the Police etc, WHEN they happened?


Proof is key in these fresh allegations...... and time will tell if more are named.

[NOX]

There may indeed be something in that with regards to older girls. It was quite common when I was young for 14 and 15 year old girls to go out with lads in the late teens and early 20's, likewise as dotty said DJ's etc were inundated with attention from teenage girls, and no-one then viewed things like that with the severity they are viewed today. I imagine if a lot of men in the 40- 70 year age group were deadly honest in their younger days they might have had a relationship with a girl of 15 or so which at the time was perfectly consentual and not really thought much of, however in this case there is a few quid in it if the man in question happens to be famous and have been named.
there is I am afraid a massive difference in a man of say 19 or 20 years old with a 15 year old girlfriend and someone who systematically abuses vulnerable children for his own gratification, which is why the word paedofile needs to be used in it's correct context and not the way the media bandies it about now.