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Stuart Hall jailed for indecent assaults | Stuart Hall jailed for indecent assaults |
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Ex-BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has been sentenced to an extra two years and six months in jail for two counts of indecently assaulting a girl. | Ex-BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has been sentenced to an extra two years and six months in jail for two counts of indecently assaulting a girl. |
Hall, 84, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, was found guilty of one count of indecent assault on 16 May in a majority jury verdict at Preston Crown Court. | Hall, 84, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, was found guilty of one count of indecent assault on 16 May in a majority jury verdict at Preston Crown Court. |
At the beginning of the trial he admitted indecently assaulting the same girl when she was aged 13. | At the beginning of the trial he admitted indecently assaulting the same girl when she was aged 13. |
He was also cleared of 15 charges of rape and four of indecent assault. | He was also cleared of 15 charges of rape and four of indecent assault. |
The charge Hall admitted involved an incident at a dinner party where he crept into his victim's bedroom and assaulted her. | The charge Hall admitted involved an incident at a dinner party where he crept into his victim's bedroom and assaulted her. |
'Vile bravado' | |
Sentencing him, Mr Justice Turner, said there had been "an element of grooming" to his offences. | |
Mr Justice Turner said there had been a "breach of trust" in relation to the assault on the girl when she was 13. | |
He said that Hall had acted with "a sense of arrogance and immunity... vile bravado and horrible betrayal". | |
He added that the 84-year-old had shown "a lack of candour or remorse" and criticised him for not admitting to these offences when he was convicted of other offences in 2013. | |
Hall did not react to the sentence as he listened to the proceedings through headphones, while his victim, who was also in court, wiped away tears with a handkerchief as details of the offences were mentioned. | |
The former broadcaster, who was accused of abusing two girls between 1976 and 1981, is already serving a 30-month jail term after he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting 13 other girls, one as young as nine. | |
His original 15-month sentence, for abuse that occurred between 1967 and 1985, was later doubled at the Court of Appeal. |