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Originally Posted by joeysteele

Exactly.

The way these things are conducted by the media is disgraceful,so called newspapers today for instance, have Edward Heath branded guilty already.
Yet as yet, there is not a single alleged incident that it appears could stand up in court.

Once the rotten media circus gets into full swing, it mystifies me then as to how it can ever really be,beyond all doubt,that anyone can be assumed to be guilty of such acts.

I really just don't know about this one but this is yet another scenario where the 'alleged' abuses can never be put to the person,who has all this going on as to them without ever being able to defend themselves against same.

That's the whole point though, as Ted Heath is no longer with us, anyone can say anything without fear of legal recourse. It could easily be a pack of lies, but it does no harm to investigate it in detail. Its not so long ago that Jimmy Saville was considered some sort of saint. Without the press and others publicising it, none of that would have come out. I still remember the BBC denying it was even possible at the time the story broke. Remember also the MP's expenses scandal and how that was broken by the press too

Allegations of this nature have to be investigated thoroughly, like them or loathe them, that's what the press is for.