Max Clifford arrested for alleged sexual offences.

I honestly don't know enough about it, just the little I've read in the newspapers. Like spike said, the jury heard all the evidence. I didn't. But, if you're going to convict someone of being a child abuser on the basis that they promised young women acting roles in blockbuster movies in exchange for sexual favours which then didn't materialise after the consented act, you better go and arrest most of Hollywood and their studio owners since the invention of the motion picture.

You've hit the nail on the head there. Max Clifford may be a particularly unpleasant person but he seems to have been given a particularly harsh sentence.

There has always been that casting couch thing about the entertainment industry and there will always be naive young girls who think performing a sex act on an influential person will get them a part in a movie, a record deal or a modelling contract. It would take a great deal of willpower for any red blooded male to resist such advances.

At the end of the day his so-called victims did voluntarily go to his office, get into his car or share a toilet cubicle with him so to suddenly decide 30 years later that they've been abused is a bit unbelievable.

You've hit the nail on the head there. Max Clifford may be a particularly unpleasant person but he seems to have been given a particularly harsh sentence.

 

There has always been that casting couch thing about the entertainment industry and there will always be naive young girls who think performing a sex act on an influential person will get them a part in a movie, a record deal or a modelling contract. It would take a great deal of willpower for any red blooded male to resist such advances.

 

At the end of the day his so-called victims did voluntarily go to his office, get into his car or share a toilet cubicle with him so to suddenly decide 30 years later that they've been abused is a bit unbelievable.

Your power of philosophical reasoning is breathless.

There should be a minimum tariff for people that mess about with kids, give them all a 15 stretch as standard.

oh goody, hopefully they can extend his stay at her majesties pleasure with this new case.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33386914

Former celebrity publicist Max Clifford has been charged with an indecent assault allegedly committed in 1981, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

 

Mr Clifford, 71, was arrested on 12 March at Littlehey Prison, in Cambridgeshire, where he is serving a sentence for sex-related offences.

He was arrested as part of Operation Yewtree, the Met Police investigation into sexual abuse allegations.

 

Mr Clifford will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 21 July.

 

Baljit Ubhey, chief crown prosecutor for CPS London, said: "We have concluded that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest for Mr Clifford to be charged with one offence of indecent assault."

oh goody, hopefully they can extend his stay at her majesties pleasure with this new case.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33386914

Does this merit another trial? He is locked up, what more do we want? Why go to the expense of another trial?

No mention of a trial only that he's been charged.

Hopefully with his current record, and utterly destroyed reputation he will just admit guilt.

Does this merit another trial? He is locked up, what more do we want? Why go to the expense of another trial?

Does this merit another trial? He is locked up, what more do we want? Why go to the expense of another trial?

How about justice for his victims?

I am coming to the conclusion that there should be a time limit after which an alleged offence can not be prosecuted.

Also there should be a limit to the time that can pass before an allegation is made.

Exceptions to this would include murder and other very serious offences.

I am coming to the conclusion that there should be a time limit after which an alleged offence can not be prosecuted.

Also there should be a limit to the time that can pass before an allegation is made.

Exceptions to this would include murder and other very serious offences.

........but it's not called the long arm of the law for nothing! and what does other very serious offences mean?

Other serious offences would have to be determined by the judiciary and parliament.

All this brings into focus the reason for custodial sentences. Are they to rehabilitate a person to prevent future offending or purely punishment.

I am coming to the conclusion that there should be a time limit after which an alleged offence can not be prosecuted.

Also there should be a limit to the time that can pass before an allegation is made.

Exceptions to this would include murder and other very serious offences.

There are such time limits:

a. in some other legal systems; and

b. even in English law (but generally only civil cases: Limitation Act 1980).