KEN BARLOW ARRESTED!

MonkstownHoop · 02-05-2013 12:41AM

might need to shift these soon

paddy147 · 02-05-2013 12:50AM

So whos next to be charged with kiddy fiddling from Corrie Street?

1st was Kevin Webster
2nd was Ken Barlow

So whos next?

Roy perhaps?

Or maybe Maurice???

Neeson · 02-05-2013 01:20AM

Fred seemed like a dodgy bloke. I said he seemed like a dodgy bloke.

con___manx1 · 02-05-2013 01:38AM

going back to 67 thats 46 years. why wait till now to make an allegation. i reckon its bull****

Rascasse · 02-05-2013 01:47AM

con___manx1 wrote: »

going back to 67 thats 46 years. why wait till now to make an allegation. i reckon its bull****

The fact the he was charged the day he was arrested (unlike DLT, Max Clifford, Rolf Harris, Freddie Starr etc) suggests the evidence is compelling, and time is no bar to an offence as serious as rape.

dd972 · 02-05-2013 02:00AM

Remember the ex Cardiff City manager Dave Jones and Neil and Christine Hamilton anytime some f**kwit says ''there's no smoke without fire''.

Sometimes there's no fire and a lingering acrid stink of smoke left on some poor sod.

123 LC · 02-05-2013 02:08AM

Wossack wrote: »

you're a soap-star?

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/36515827.jpg

there was kevin and then frank from coronation street...now ken!

Lenin Skynard · 02-05-2013 02:34AM

paddy147 wrote: »

So whos next?

Roy perhaps?

Or maybe Maurice???

I thought he was called Norris. Maybe some people call him Maurice, swish shwoo.

Xavi6 · 02-05-2013 02:39AM

RikkFlair wrote: »

Who's gonna be next? All eyes turn to Roy Cropper.

Try saying no to Jim McDonald :eek:

Ruudi_Mentari · 02-05-2013 04:36AM

anyone recall his brief appearance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcHmWLYmwgo

Norwesterner · 02-05-2013 04:50AM

Why is there never the same media and public outrage over "On The Run" convicted paedo Roman Polanski??

monkeysnapper · 02-05-2013 05:14AM

If it can't get any worse poor Schmeichel has been accused of incest with his 5 year old sister . Would the world bloody let him rest in peace.

Wacker The Attacker · 02-05-2013 07:02AM

The boul' ken loves the fanny

Wacker The Attacker · 02-05-2013 07:04AM

paddy147 wrote: »

So whos next to be charged with kiddy fiddling from Corrie Street?

1st was Kevin Webster
2nd was Ken Barlow

So whos next?

Roy perhaps?

Or maybe Maurice???

Fred Elliott.

Dicky Pride · 02-05-2013 07:09AM

I find it pretty unbelievable that ITV published the sex offenders list last night. What are the legal implications of that? Aren't some of them reformed in some way now, and entitled to get on with their lives?

EDIT: apologies it was just the coronation street credits. My bad.

ronan45 · 02-05-2013 09:16AM

Crikey but One thing i dont get....Where is the evidence gonna come from??
This happened nearly half a century ago ! WIll it be a case of she says v he says? Surely it wont be based on DNA evidence

RandomName2 · 02-05-2013 09:59AM

Well irrespective of whether there is any evidence (I don't know how much is needed for a charge to be brought) his life is pretty much irreparably messed up by the allegations. The accuser (who is aged what... 61?) automatically remains anonymous. As there is unlikely to be any substantial evidence after almost half a century it will probably peter out, with the actor's reputation tarnished.

I can see why cases of assault and rape would not be taken in (let's say Ireland) for a long period of time because of the age of the victim coupled with the relatively recent dismantling of Church power, but what reason could there be in this case. Fear of the Screen Actors Guild?

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-05-2013 10:02AM

paddy147 wrote: »

So whos next to be charged with kiddy fiddling from Corrie Street?

1st was Kevin Webster
2nd was Ken Barlow

So whos next?

Roy perhaps?

Or maybe Maurice???

Schmeichel

furiousox · 02-05-2013 10:06AM

Breaking news...
Coronation St to be renamed 'Porridge'......

Ash.J.Williams · 02-05-2013 10:12AM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Fred Elliott.

nah he's gay and dead

ruthloss · 02-05-2013 10:19AM

Fred Elliott Gay?!!., eh... nay lad.:eek:

Tombo2001 · 02-05-2013 10:21AM

syklops wrote: »

Maybe people are getting the courage to do so after they heard about the compensation Jimmy Saville victims might be getting

Its just amazing that in the country where people said "no it didnt happen, no it didnt happen, no it didnt happen, no it didnt happen, the poor old priests, these people should just go away" throughout the 1990s and 2000s.......about clerical abuse and abuse in industrial schools that took place in Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s.....

......that the same people are having the same response to this announcement in the UK.

Tombo2001 · 02-05-2013 10:25AM

RandomName2 wrote: »

Well irrespective of whether there is any evidence (I don't know how much is needed for a charge to be brought) his life is pretty much irreparably messed up by the allegations. The accuser (who is aged what... 61?) automatically remains anonymous. As there is unlikely to be any substantial evidence after almost half a century it will probably peter out, with the actor's reputation tarnished.

I can see why cases of assault and rape would not be taken in (let's say Ireland) for a long period of time because of the age of the victim coupled with the relatively recent dismantling of Church power, but what reason could there be in this case. Fear of the Screen Actors Guild?

(I)

If he is found guilty, he is found guilty. If he is found innocent, he is found innocent. If the wider public can not get their heads around the word 'innocent', thats not the fault of the person bringing the case.

Judging by the amount of sympathy for him on this site, it looks like a lot of people have already decided he is the victim here.

(II)

Do you have some special insights into this case that tells you what available evidence there is? if so, please share.

Rascasse · 02-05-2013 10:28AM

And today Stuart Hall, also in his 80's, from Wilmslow, a TV personality and charged with a sex offence from 1967 (amongst others up until the 80's) pleaded guilty in court.

Roache and Hall co-own a pubishing company with Blackpool FC owner Owen Oyston who was convicted of raping a 16 year old model in the 90's.

Not saying that Hall and Roache's alleged offences are linked, but it's a bit of a coincidence. And as for both being in business with a convicted rapist............

RandomName2 · 02-05-2013 10:33AM

Tombo2001 wrote: »

(I)

If he is found guilty, he is found guilty. If he is found innocent, he is found innocent. If the wider public can not get their heads around the word 'innocent', thats not the fault of the person bringing the case.

Judging by the amount of sympathy for him on this site, it looks like a lot of people have already decided he is the victim here.

He has and is suffering for the allegation already, regardless of his guilt. If the case fails due to lack of evidence it difficult to say that he is 'proven' innocent. I am not sure what good a trial by media adds to the legal process.

Tombo2001 wrote: »

(II)

Do you have some special insights into this case that tells you what available evidence there is? if so, please share.

Nothing, other than the time it has taken for the allegation to be brought. It would stand to reason that there would be more tangible evidence for a case involving a suspected rape from a week or a month ago than one from forty-six years ago.

Hootanany · 02-05-2013 10:39AM

paddy147 wrote: »

So whos next to be charged with kiddy fiddling from Corrie Street?

1st was Kevin Webster
2nd was Ken Barlow

So whos next?

Roy
Or maybe Maurice???

Dont forget the first one Len Fairclough

syklops · 02-05-2013 10:47AM

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Its just amazing that in the country where people said "no it didnt happen, no it didnt happen, no it didnt happen, no it didnt happen, the poor old priests, these people should just go away" throughout the 1990s and 2000s.......about clerical abuse and abuse in industrial schools that took place in Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s.....

......that the same people are having the same response to this announcement in the UK.

Excuse me I never denied child sex abuse was happening, and I have never in my life said the phrase "poor priests".

Can you explain why this person waited 46 years to come forward?

goose2005 · 02-05-2013 10:54AM

kylith wrote: »

Whilst I obviously agree that rape is the most heinous of crimes, I feel somewhat conflicted about arresting a man based on an allegation of something that happened 45 years ago. I fail to see how jailing him could benefit anyone, or how the case could be proven to be anything other than 'he said, she said'.

would you say the same if he was a priest?

RandomName2 · 02-05-2013 11:00AM

goose2005 wrote: »

would you say the same if he was a priest?

An actor's union in Britain was as powerful as the Catholic Church?

Xavi6 · 02-05-2013 11:06AM

Was Stuart Hall ever in Corporation Street? :pac:

KEN BARLOW ARRESTED!

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