BBC Broadcaster Admits to Assaulting Girls
Pleads to 14 charges, one of which involved a 9-year-old victim
BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has admitted 14 charges of indecently assaulting girls including one aged nine.
The 83-year-old of Wilmslow, Cheshire, pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to the offences, involving 13 victims, which occurred between 1967 and 1985.
Three charges of indecent assault and one of rape will lie on the court file.
His lawyer said Hall apologised to his victims and added: "He is all too aware that his disgrace is complete."
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It was safer when the Brits kept the pederasts at Cambridge.