Originally Posted by AnnieK (Post 11297263)

It's all very uncomfortable to read and watch tbh.
If there is a case to answer it needs to be done in private now. I have no desire to be party to trial by media.

Originally Posted by joeysteele (Post 11297250)

The point really is anything he is saying is only a one sided take from him.

What's needed to know is, to even try to clear this up.
Is the other guy in the mix.
He knows the age he was, he knows the full extent of communication with Schofield.
He knows what and where all took place and what too was his take on the relationship.

Furthermore why has nothing been heard from him.
Why?
Is it because Schofield's account is right.
Or is he unable to comment because of anything he's had to sign or been paid not to reveal.

If that's so, then why was it necessary to ensure his silence, what would have been necessary to hide, and STILL be hiding?
Since nothings been heard from him.

So it's all very well for Schofield to give a full media and public interview.
However NOT the other person who Schofield has apologised to.
Apologising for WHAT?

As can be the case, when one person in a concerning issue gives an interview, more questions are created.

His career he says is over.
IF there is nothing unsavoury and all was in order legally.
Then why should his career be over?

If the silence from the other guy continues.
How can Schofield be completely believed since he's admitted to years and years of continual lies and deceit to his wife, children, family, colleagues and the viewing public too while employed on TV.

We have Schofield's own account of this concerning issue.
That's all his interview has done..
No real in depth questions have been concusively either properly addressed or answered.

I do think however, Schofield needs someone close to be in close contact just to make sure he remains safe.
He clearly is broken by this which is very sad.
He'll need very strong support it seems.

I'm still left wondering just what the other younger guy is thinking and how he is feeling too.
With all this highlighting and speculation going on around his life and relationship with Schofield.
Why has he said nothing ?
Or why CAN he not say anything?
From whatever conditions on his silence may have been put in place as to this.

Without his input.
Speculation will only continue and may even yet intensify.

Originally Posted by AnnieK (Post 11297263)

It's all very uncomfortable to read and watch tbh.
If there is a case to answer it needs to be done in private now. I have no desire to be party to trial by media.

Originally Posted by bitontheslide (Post 11297281)

it's all poor me, poor me. That has 2 effects, it supresses public anger and also tries to guilt people into keeping quiet that would have come forward to speak against him. It's a planned strategy to manipulate

Originally Posted by bitontheslide (Post 11297281)

it's all poor me, poor me. That has 2 effects, it supresses public anger and also tries to guilt people into keeping quiet that would have come forward to speak against him. It's a planned strategy to manipulate

Originally Posted by Liam- (Post 11297293)

People and the media won’t be happy until he’s dead at this point

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 11297265)

he used the "media" to become very wealthy and he used his own family along the way

I welcome trial by media for this wretch

Originally Posted by Liam- (Post 11297293)

People and the media won’t be happy until he’s dead at this point

Originally Posted by UserSince2005 (Post 11297319)

I saw Amol Rajan in London last weekend, he was out with his two kids and wife. Very short family.

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 11297336)

his defense is "we just became mates and one day we were both naked as it was hot and he tripped on a glace cherry and found himself inside me"

honest guv and before that I had never thought about sex with him :shrug:

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Originally Posted by thesheriff443 (Post 11297267)

From the lawyers representing him they said

He is no longer willing to deny the relationship he doesn’t want any pictures of him in the press of how he looks now and is working in a remote pub

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy (Post 11297327)

Really complicated part is that he probably doesn't see it as grooming (MANY groomers would hand on heart say they're not and believe it) and it might not even have been an intent for it to become a non-platonic relationship.

So giving the benefit of the doubt,

He cultivated a relationship - whether he intended to or not - with a power and experience differential with a young boy who clearly had a lot of admiration for him and developed feelings for him. That can happen unintentionally but when that becomes clear that's when the "Philip" in the situation is supposed to say "Oh dear I didn't know you had those sorts of feelings, this wasn't my intention and is deeply inappropriate and we need to step away from this."

Not "Whoohoo drop your pants".

He really downplays that imbalance by saying he "kinda sorta acknowledges that he did something wrong". This wasn't a lapse of willpower and a one-night hookup it was an ongoing relationship. That's not an "error" it's a choice.

I can appreciate that the onslaught is awful for any human and the media is the beast that it is. Losing his career is consequence enough. He has more than enough money to live out the rest of his life comfortably - he does not need to work in entertainment again. Ever.

So yes on the one hand I think the press "should" leave this part alone, BUT there does need to be a push to find out if there's more, if there was facilitation and a cover-up, and to find out if it is indeed a "culture" and not just about Schofield.

Schofield himself though? He needs to accept that his career and life in the public eye is over and move on. He doesn't have to be on telly giving interviews. If he's truly done nothing worth investigating and it's all "legal and above board" then he could move to a cottage in the middle of nowhere, read some philosophy and try to be a better person for himself.

This sort of smacks of him trying to salvage some scrapings of a career, and being more concerned about "what people think of him" than with actually becoming a better person. Becoming a better person doesn't need an audience.