Ex-BBC man Hall got teens drunk and raped them?
May 08, 2014  02:47
British former broadcaster Stuart Hall repeatedly plied two young teenage girls with drink and raped them in his BBC dressing room, a court heard today. 

Hall made them his personal playthings, "wholly submissive to his sexual demands", state prosecutors claimed as they opened their case against the 84-year-old broadcasting veteran.

He poured champagne on the naked body of one alleged victim and took a cutting of her pubic hair as a trophy, Preston Crown Court in northwest England heard. 

Hall is charged with 15 rapes and five indecent assaults against two complainants known only as Girl A and Girl B, who were under the age of consent (16) when the alleged abuse began in the late 1970s.

The presenter's lawyer said given their ages, the jury had to consider whether, legally, what happened was unlawful sex "somewhere between rape and consent" and whether a complaint from could still be brought after a more than a year.

Hall presented the hit BBC television show "It's a Knockout" in the 1970s and 1980s, fronted the BBC regional news in northwest England and was a football commentator. He is serving a 30-month prison sentence after admitting indecently assaulting 13 young girls or women.
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