It must be difficult to decide who is compensation seeking on false grounds or who is genuine.
I have knowledge of a situation where someone was upset and distressed by inappropriate behaviour at a smallish, but, nevertheless crowded public event. The person who went through the experience was made to feel unreasonable if wanting to complain further and so was afraid to go ahead.

It's tricky. I think what it boils down to is: if someone is going to be convicted of sonething, or even charged, there ought to be some hard evidence.

If there were initial complaints made and people were not believed or were discouraged from going ahead, there could be written evidence that is still in existence that showed that there was cause for worry.

I don't think that the compensation incentive was there years ago in the way it seems to be now and so people would have only voiced a complaint if they felt wronged.

The situation I mentioned above in my last post was not heard about by the police, as far as I know, but an enormously influential person was told instead, and knew the person complained about. So, there could be many other cases which didn't reach the attention of the police but really should have been investigated.

Gossip,Gossip, Gossip.

I don't think that this can be regarded as gossip if I add that I know there is written evidence in existence which shows the date a letter was written and to whom. This is a true fact which has not been disclosed in public before now.

My point of speaking about it is to show that people can have been made to feel ashamed to have spoken to someone in authority about their experience and thus made them feel that they should maintain a silence. This shows that things can be hushed up before reaching the police.

Cliff Richard in talks with the Police, bit of a curveball music collaboration...

Did Sting sing 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' to Cliff I wonder? Can't be too careful .....

Interesting analysis of the evidence which convicted Harris.....

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/ ... behind-it/

Appears he was an advocate of climate change and campaigned fearlessly on this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29034230



Unreserved apology, Lessons will be learned blah blah blah......

A question I've often pondered, apart from women of a certain age, who actually buys Cliff's calendar's? I suppose my problem is that I don't understand the concept.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... endar.html