Tony Blackburn: I've been 'hung out to dry' by BBC

[Hope]

Any thoughts?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35662448

[Gordon]

I think it might be better to await further information since it has been reported that there may be legal action forthcoming.

[Hope]

Whilst I appreciate your point, I also believe that the existence of documentary evidence was publicised in an earlier part of the Savile Inquiry - as was referenced in the final report.  I don't recall TB denying the existence or content of the documentation at the time.  As such, if its already in the public domain, is it sub-judice in any way?

[Gordon]

I don't think it is sub-judice: I just think that if he plans to sue it would be better to await any other information that may come into the public domain before making comment - but that is just my view.

You may have a different view.

[L.A.]

I think it might be better to await further information since it has been reported that there may be legal action forthcoming.

I agree we've not got the whole story, but but you do get the impression that the BEEB are punishing the guy for their own past short-comings,.

[OH MY WORLD!]

Hasn't the BBC been talking about it? If it's been put on the internet, tv, papers,  it's fair game. As I also believe that members that put stuff all over the internet, should not be protected here from being challenged on what they have put out there.  Isn't that right Gordon.

[Hope]

I agree we've not got the whole story, but but you do get the impression that the BEEB are punishing the guy for their own past short-comings,.

I'd disagree, what I heard of the the story concerning TB seemed to include at least as much time spent on the underlying orgnisational issues that the report as on the TB issue

[Sassy]

Claire chronicled her visits, which took place in early 1971, in her diary, which also contained the names of a string of celebrities, including Tony Blackburn, Frank Sinatra and Rock Hudson, who had, she alleged, seduced her.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3466464/Rage-tears-unanswered-questions-searing-interview-DJ-Tony-Blackburn-breaks-sex-abuse-claims-end-glittering-49-year-career-man-traduced-BBC.html#ixzz41Qk2Znua

Rock Hudson was GAY.... Having read the article I cannot see how ANYONE could have thought it to be true.
I just hope the girl did not commit suicide out of embarrassment.

We can see the girls mother was the person who made the complaint having read her daughters diary.

Fifteen-year-old Claire McAlpine’s four visits to live recordings of Top Of The Pops were chronicled in a diary, found by her mother, Vera, in early 1971. In it was a disturbing claim that after a show, the teenager said she’d met Tony Blackburn, who invited her back to his flat in West London and seduced her.

I think that Tony Blackburn is innocent and the mother should not have read her daughters diary. It probably cost her the life of her daughter. Would have been best to treat with kid gloves and let her daughter explain.

[Brownie]

Quite right, young girls are famous for fantasising in their diaries (I did but not about Famous People - didn't stop my mother going puce and exploding when she read it but she shouldn't have read my diary!).  It's tragic that the poor girl committed suicide.

I agree that TB has done nothing wrong, as far as we know.

[Hope]

I think that Tony Blackburn is innocent and the mother should not have read her daughters diary. It probably cost her the life of her daughter. Would have been best to treat with kid gloves and let her daughter explain.

His innocence isn't the issue; it's whether documentary evidence that he was interviewed by the hierarchy of the BBC back in the '70s exists and, if so, why he denied that he'd been interviewed.

[Sebastian Toe]

His innocence isn't the issue; it's whether documentary evidence that he was interviewed by the hierarchy of the BBC back in the '70s exists and, if so, why he denied that he'd been interviewed.

..and conversely,  if not, why they say that he was?