[Omah]

Originally Posted by Livia

I hope that Lord McAlpine is able to sue for libel and defamation of character, the people who named him on the Internet. Steve Messham who is claiming he was abused as a child never named Lord McAlpine, the hysterics did.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20269114

Steve Messham said police had shown him a picture of his abuser but incorrectly told him the man was Lord McAlpine.

The BBC's Newsnight reported his claims against a leading 1980s Tory politician but did not name Lord McAlpine.

The BBC apologised "unreservedly" for airing it and announced an "immediate pause" in Newsnight investigations.

Meanwhile, Lord McAlpine's solicitor says he will take legal action against those who later named and linked him to the claims.

Mr Messham has offered "sincere and humble apologies" to the peer and his family.

In a statement on Friday evening Mr Messham said: "After seeing a picture in the past hour of the individual concerned, this [is] not the person I identified by photograph presented to me by the police in the early 1990s, who told me the man in the photograph was Lord McAlpine."

So Mr Messham believed his abuser WAS Lord McAlpine - hence, the police are to blame for the so-called "witch-hunt" .....

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Omah

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20269114



So Mr Messham believed his abuser WAS Lord McAlpine - hence, the police are to blame for the so-called "witch-hunt" .....

Hmmm... can everyone pass your pitchforks to the right please?....

[Omah]

Originally Posted by kizzy

Hmmm... can everyone pass your pitchforks to the right please?....

Which witch are we witch-hunting now ?

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Omah

Which witch are we witch-hunting now ?

Well... panorama is blaming newsnight, the media are blaming the BBC, the government are blaming George Entwistle, Lord McAlpine is blaming the internet, the public are blaming Phillip Schofield, and the victim is blaming the police
So I dunno...