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Operation Yewtree was a British police investigation into sexual abuse allegations, predominantly the abuse of children, against the English media personality Jimmy Savile and others. The investigation, led by the Metropolitan Police (Met), started in October 2012.
The publicity began on 5 October 2012 [1] [2] after an ITV Exposure documentary broadcast allegations. [3] [4] By 11 October, allegations had been made to 13 British police forces. [5] On 19 October, the Metropolitan Police Service launched a formal criminal investigation, Operation Yewtree, into historic allegations of child sexual abuse by ...
Rod Liddle in The Spectator called it "a fantastically berserk, bravado performance". [138] Me Me Me (2011) was described by King as "a re-telling of Romeo and Juliet ". [ 139 ] The Pink Marble Egg (2013) is a spy story; for publicity King drove down the Promenade de la Croisette in Cannes with a pink papier-mâché egg on top of his Rolls ...
Sir Cliff Richard and two other British entertainers accused but never convicted of sex crimes are to take part in a Channel 4 documentary marking a decade since Operation Yewtree. National ...
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Rod Liddle (born 1 April 1960) is an English journalist, [5] and an associate editor of The Spectator.He was an editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme. His published works include Too Beautiful for You (2003), Love Will Destroy Everything (2007), The Best of Liddle Britain (co-author, 2007) and the semi-autobiographical Selfish Whining Monkeys (2014).
The BBC Two programme Newsnight also broadcast, on 2 November 2012, a report containing false claims that Lord McAlpine had sexually abused children during the 1970s, as part of the North Wales child abuse scandal. It became clear that the claims were the result of mistaken identity; the BBC and the accuser both apologised, and the person ...