Cliff Hanger comes to an End.
Cliff Richard’s punishment for being a wealthy celebrity who chose not to marry has come to an end. Two years of the Internet and the media being given free rein to speculate and fabricate the most heinous slander is over.
Until the time comes for him to die…whereupon a fresh group of allegations will surface from people who were ‘too scared’ to come forward in the past two years…
It would appear that South Yorkshire Police do not feel confident that they could prove he abused a young boy in front of a crowd of thousands of committed Christians, none of whom have come forward to say they noticed anything…
Cliff may not feel it today – but he is lucky. He has at least been in the position whereby the CPS have had to say whether they feel confident putting their witness on the stand. ‘No further Action’ may not feel like the ringing endorsement of his undoubted innocence that he would like to hear – but it is a lot more than he would be granted by the media had he been dead.
Another one of Mark Williams-Thomas’ stable of false allegators bites the dust. He must be devastated. No chance for a ‘Cliff Richard Exposed’ documentary.
In May this year, South Yorkshire Police presented the final investigation files to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) relating to four allegations of non-recent sexual abuse involving Cliff Richard.
After careful consideration of the evidence provided to them, the CPS has concluded that no further action should be taken against the man due to there being insufficient evidence to prosecute. A further five allegations considered by the investigation team did not meet the threshold for referral to CPS for a charging decision.
The force apologises wholeheartedly for the additional anxiety caused by our initial handling of the media interest in this case and has implemented the learning from this and the subsequent review conducted by former Chief Constable Andy Trotter.
Following an initial allegation received by the force in April 2014, South Yorkshire detectives have explored and gathered all information available and carried out a thorough and detailed investigation, which has covered the UK and abroad. The investigation, which has spanned two years, is estimated to have cost in the region of £800,000, including staffing costs.
- Peb
June 16, 2016 at 10:54 am -
You have to wonder if the timing of this news (the day after Clement Freud being ‘exposed as a paedophile’ no ifs, buts or maybes ) today was seen as a good day to bury bad news
- Pericles Xanthippou
June 16, 2016 at 11:21 am -
I must say, Peb, I thought that item about Sir Clement very rum: an announcement in terms that might have suited the discovery of something recorded on the wall of an ancient Egyptian tomb — and therefore ‘fact’ — followed immediately by an apology from his widow.
As to burying bad news: just wait till Friday the 24th. A mass grave will be needed for all the bad news they’ll be wanting to bury; the hearses will be forming a disorderly queue (or line!).
ΠΞ
- JuliaM
June 16, 2016 at 1:23 pm -
The Lib Dem statement referring to ‘revelations about’ rather than ‘accusations against’ was pretty disgusting. Not that anyone expects anything else from that shower…
- Mrs Grimble
June 16, 2016 at 2:05 pm -
Reading his widow’s words, I’m not sure they were meant as an apology for her husband’s abuse. She said she was sorry the women suffered so much, without mentioning her husband. At least two of the women were regular visitors to the household; she could equally well have been saying “I’m sorry your illness gave you so much suffering and I’m sorry I never noticed.” Perhaps a lawyer wrote it for her?
- Kitty
June 18, 2016 at 9:03 am -
And his widow is 89. Maybe her memory isn’t what it used to be. I don’t know, of course – but I would err on the side of caution.
I have wondered why the main complainant was sent to live with the Freuds. According to newspaper reports, it happened when her mother’s marriage – not her parents’ marriage – fell apart. But why the Freuds? Were they relatives, or family friends? Why did her mother send her to the Freuds’ and not keep her in the family home, as would happen in most cases of marital breakdown? The newspaper coverage left a lot of questions unanswered.
- Kitty
- JuliaM
- Peb
June 16, 2016 at 11:27 am -
I guess that today’s announcement conclusively proves that the CPS did not believe “Accuser of Sir Cliff Richard ‘claimed the singer molested a boy after roller-skating into a shop’”
- Bandini
June 16, 2016 at 11:32 am -
“During the investigation, Richard volunteered to be interviewed twice by police, the first time after a man came forward to claim he had been groped by the singer at a Christian rally in 1985.”
From CPS statement:
“The CPS has carefully reviewed evidence relating to claims of non-recent sexual offences dating between 1958 and 1983 made by four men. We have decided that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute.”In other words, the INITIAL lunatic claim wasn’t even being considered – but it did its job in flushing out a few other crackpots who hopped aboard the witch-hunt gravy-train. Now that that train has hit the buffer of reality it’d be fantastic if Cliff Richard sued some of the nasty bastards behind his two years of hell… but I imagine he’ll be too relieved & exhausted to do any such thing.
It’s a shame, though, as a quick glance in the usual dank corners shows that many will never be convinced & happily continue to malign him with horrendous accusations. He’s already gone up in my estimation for the way he handled the situation; if he DOES start suing I’ll even consider purchasing an album of his.
- Moor Larkin
June 16, 2016 at 12:40 pm -
“In other words, the INITIAL lunatic claim wasn’t even being considered – but it did its job in flushing out a few other crackpots”
Technique used in Ovenden, when Minty Challis performed the initial lunatic role. She is a Daily Mail favourite.
http://jimcannotfixthis.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/why-why-why-delilah.html
Minty even popped into my comments just to show there were no hard feelings btw…- Bandini
June 16, 2016 at 1:12 pm -
I only dipped in to the Ovenden trial, Moor, but vaguely remember reading about Minty. Who could forget the colloidal silver/MK Ultra pairing?!?
- Bandini
- Moor Larkin
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 16, 2016 at 11:35 am -
One can only hope for a distinct lack of Christian forgiveness on CR’s part, less ecumenical more Economou.
There remain Faith, Hope and High Court writs.
- Don Cox
June 16, 2016 at 8:31 pm -
There’s no point in suing false accusers who have no money.
- Don Cox
- Penseivat
June 16, 2016 at 11:39 am -
Good news for Cliff, sort of. The CPS are very clever in their wording. Not, “There is no evidence to support the accusation….”, but more, “There is insufficient evidence to secure a prosecution” or words to that effect. Rather than say they believe him to be innocent, they are saying that he may be a kiddie fiddler but they can’t do him for it. This leaves the professionally offended to continue their campaigns. Sadly, these days there appears to be little connection between the law and justice.
- Ho Hum
June 16, 2016 at 12:12 pm -
‘“There is insufficient evidence to secure a prosecution” or words to that effect’….and so on
Not really. It’s just their particular form of the wording used, as a disclaimer, to cover their backsides, should anything else then happen in which the person against whom the allegations were made is later shown to really be a ‘bad ‘un’, as a result of any future allegations arising in respect of their past, present, or future behaviour.
It would be interesting to see if they might even try to fall back on such, as a defence for their own possible liability for not having prosecuted, if some adverse future event occurred and they, individually or corporately, had got their present decision wrong as a result of their not having been given all the evidence available or, worse still, if they had been given a complete package but had erred in their understanding or interpretation of its content
But you are certainly right as to the rest of the consequences …………..
- Opus
June 20, 2016 at 9:32 am -
Indeed: it is their standard form of wording. We are all, you see, guilty of everything, but they do not always have the evidence to prove it.
- Opus
- James
June 16, 2016 at 12:48 pm -
I was interested to note that the CPS did not even go down the Paul Gambaccini route of snidely detailing in a swipe of petulance the hitherto unpublicised allegations which they had decided to reject.
- Ho Hum
- Ho Hum
June 16, 2016 at 11:41 am -
This may sound a bit like nit picking, Anna, but, yes, the SYP statement refers to 9 allegations, 4 which went to the CPS, and 5 which didn’t get that far. It doesn’t say how many ‘allegators’ there were emerged from the depths of the murky lagoon in respect of those, nor anything about which of those made which claims about what.
So why are you so seemingly certain as to refer to the specific incident mentioned above as one put forward to the CPS? I’m just curious. Any pointers as to where to look?
- Ho Hum
June 16, 2016 at 11:43 am -
Forget that one, please. Bandini has just provided the answer LOL
- Ho Hum
- Alexander Baron
June 16, 2016 at 12:00 pm -
The big question now is: is there sufficient evidence and is it in the public interest to prosecute any of these damned liars for wasting police time or some more serious offence?
Don’t hold your breath waiting for an answer.
- Roderick
June 16, 2016 at 1:59 pm -
I can’t be the only one who was nauseated by the spectacle of our national broadcaster chartering – at our expense, naturally – a helicopter with which to obtain a gloating, lip-smacking aerial view of Yorkshire police breaking into Sir Cliff’s penthouse apartment in southern England when he was away.
Examples of reckless corporate misbehaviour don’t come much clearer than this.
- Carol42
June 16, 2016 at 2:23 pm -
Already the ‘no smoke without fire’ brigade are out in force on talk radio.
- David
June 16, 2016 at 3:26 pm -
Some of the unanswered questions are:
Were his visits to Elm Guest House subject to investigation?
Why was he friends with the the Kray twins and Lord Boothby?
Did he threatened to reveal the names of high ranking paedophiles in government, and the Civil Service?In my experience, anyone who might know names of High Court Judges etc who were visiting Elm Guest House, seems to be being protected by the CPS
- windsock
June 16, 2016 at 3:36 pm -
It must be bleak in your world, where you see conspiracy written on every face and every path leads back to the same destination.
- David
June 16, 2016 at 4:06 pm -
After nearly two years of obstruction by the secret service, who are probably protecting their agents, I do see conspiracy written on many faces. all linked with Elm Guest House, and VIPs. I wish I had never got involved, but I did.
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 17, 2016 at 12:08 am -
After nearly two years of obstruction by the secret service
If after 2 years of supposed obstruction you are still capable of posting freely on a public forum on the internet then one has to wonder if our Secret Service is providing the tax payer with value for money. I’m not saying our security services don’t ‘obstruct’ people, they can and do, but until you wake up-at best- in a lunatic asylum or dead in a holdall dressed in suspenders then my guess is you are confusing MI5 with BT.
- The Blocked Dwarf
- David
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 16, 2016 at 4:19 pm -
Why was he friends with the the Kray twins
You would be hard pressed to find any 60’s UK celeb who didn’t at least get a photo opp with Ron & Reg. They actively encouraged it -usually for the sake of their dear ol’ mum (being good East End boys at heart).
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 16, 2016 at 4:24 pm -
Infact it would not surprise me in the slightest to learn that our own dear Landlady had met them, The Krays, and you could not hope to meet a more honest , law abiding person than Her-Behind-The-Bar.
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 16, 2016 at 4:39 pm -
Thinking on this further, it is perhaps more likely that The Landlady met the Richardsons not the Krays. Those who know her can just imagine her tearing a verbal strip off Mad Frankie Frazer…
Enough Dwarfage ponderance of minor details, I have dinner to cook.
- The Blocked Dwarf
- eric
June 17, 2016 at 4:40 am -
Anyone who thinks being “friendly” or meeting or knowing the Krays was unique must be living in a closet if they do not understand how the world of nightclubs work around the world. Up until the late 90s you could not own a nightclub, disco or nitespot in New York or any of it’s precincts unless you ‘partnered’ with a ‘security’ firm who ensured there were few problems (by themselves staying away). Firms run by the Mafia or the Hell’s Angels and London has been no different for decades.
You walked into a nightclub of any description in the UK and you were inadvertently supporting organised crime in some form. It’s a fact of life and the cops and politicians know it but proving this is almost impossible. These days organised crime is so sophisticated it’s still impossible to prove and the UK now has some of the most entrenched & powerful crime gangs in Europe raking in billions. The Krays really were minor league compared to today’s criminals and society always has a fascination of flirting with the underworld. The media does it and profits from it. The Krays would never have been known if Britain’s tabloids hadn’t promoted & glamorized them
- The Blocked Dwarf
- windsock
- Kamil Beylant
June 16, 2016 at 4:53 pm -
A naked Winston Churchill represented himself to me as “Winnie the Pooh” when I was a toddler. (That was a while ago … but don’t call it historic!)
I demand compensation both for myself and the Axis Powers that he persecuted to cover up his perversions.
- Alexander Baron
June 16, 2016 at 6:37 pm -
I wrote an article about the Elm Guest House list awhile ago. If it is so friggin’ accurate, why is Colin Jordan listed as a member of the National Front?
Just watching the Freud documentary now. That nutter Saunders is included. Nuff said.
- tdf
June 16, 2016 at 7:19 pm -
Leaving aside the discredited EGH lists, it’s entirely valid to question Cliff’s, frankly, rather odd associations in the 1960s. Not conspiracy theory, photographs exist.
The fact that he associated with nonces and criminals doesn’t of course, mean that he personally is or was either.
- Alexander Baron
June 16, 2016 at 8:25 pm -
Ah yes, the camera never lies:
First Lady shakes hands with serial killer, therefore?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Johnwaynegacyrosalynncarter.jpg
- Alexander Baron
- Jonathan King
June 16, 2016 at 7:41 pm -
On very good authority I’m told that one of the false allegations about which he was questioned was alleged to have been in Coventry during 1953 – when he would have in fact been 13 and Harry Webb. Cliff Richard did not exist in 1953. Some false accusers can’t even use Google. Unfortunately many (like their champions) can – something that seems to have escaped Judges (“Google? Is that a popular beat combo?”). And police (“you will be believed”). It really does beggar belief.
- tdf
June 16, 2016 at 7:50 pm -
So Jonathan was it customary, to your knowledge, for pop stars to fraternise with the likes of the Kray twins and the alleged peadophile Lord Boothby during the 1960s?
We have been told by a commenter above that it was, but I haven’t seen anything that proves that. Apart from in Cliff’s case.
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 16, 2016 at 8:22 pm -
From the Wiki on the Krays: “As West End nightclub owners, they mixed with politicians and prominent entertainers such as Diana Dors, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland”
I know there are photos of all the above named and I assume many more ‘lesser’ known celebs with the twins. Pretty sure they knew/met Epstein (so would have met whichever star he was coaching at the time, Cilla Black perhaps) .
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 16, 2016 at 8:31 pm -
Oh and if memory serves there were wreaths at Reg’s funeral from such unknown pop stars as ‘Roger Daltry’ and another from a guy called ‘Morrissey’ (No I don’t know who that is either).
- tdf
June 16, 2016 at 8:44 pm -
Lol. Ok, fair enough. ‘Morrissey’ I imagine is one of those modern ‘punk rock’ artistes that they have now.
- windsock
June 17, 2016 at 8:34 am -
Consider yourself enlightened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk1wUKoXL20
Actually a song I find wryly funny.
- tdf
- The Blocked Dwarf
- Jonathan King
June 17, 2016 at 12:59 pm -
Oh yes; commentator above totally accurate, true and veritas as usual. Pop music and entertainment were loaded with crooks, yesterday, today and tomorrow.
- tdf
June 17, 2016 at 11:09 pm -
^ Hollywood also, I’m guessing.
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 17, 2016 at 11:32 pm -
Hollywood’s connection to the Mafia goes back to Prohibition and beyond and is very well documented. Names like ‘Capone’ and ‘Sinatra’ Although I believe these days it’s the Russian variety that holds the major sway in Tinselski Townskaya…
Here the first link I googled : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-441796/Hollywood-And-The-Mob-Tim-Adler.html
- tdf
June 18, 2016 at 12:06 am -
“Although I believe these days it’s the Russian variety that holds the major sway in Tinselski Townskaya…”
Certainly possible. If so, would explain some allusions in David Lynch’s “Inland Empire”.
- tdf
- tdf
June 18, 2016 at 12:01 am -
From Elvis to Depeche Mode to U2, pretty much all of my favourite stuff in ‘popular music’ has an element of, well…..opera….performance….there’s nothing faux or ironic about it, at core…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwt36dygqjA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6JjpIELm9Y
But if one is performing for 80,000 people in a stadium and essentially making them bend to one’s will, then that leads to either delusions of megalomania, or heavy drug addiction, or both. I guess that’s logically the case.
There’s a sense in which Leni Refienstahl was the first video music director.
- The Blocked Dwarf
- tdf
- The Blocked Dwarf
- eric
June 17, 2016 at 4:31 am -
Just awful what has happened to Cliff and I hope he finds peace and can enjoy the rest of his life.
What an indictment on the current hysteria in the UK. A man who is widely loved and has brought joy to so many and is so obviously committed to his religion and has reached the grand age of 75 yet all these facts are used to crucify him.
Without a doubt since homophobia has become anti-social these hysterics who railed against gays & lesbians have morphed their life’s work in witch hunting into a new way of accusing. - Bandini
June 21, 2016 at 12:52 pm -
Probably a coincidence, but from the Mail:
“The ‘roller skate guy’, as Cliff calls him, went on to become a religious minister. Lest anyone think that gives him credence as a witness, the ministry offers anyone a chance to ‘become ordained almost immediately’. Cliff points out: ‘I understand you can be ordained by paying $27 online.’”
Chris Fay’s stooge of a quarter of a century, Andrew Ash(worth), also heard the calling of a mail-order company:
“My name is Andrew. I am 44. I am honored to be an ordained Pastor . Being a pastor is not 9 to 5; it is not shift work; it is not flexie time; it is a full time commitment to a full time employer!”
Andrew supposedly implicated Leon Brittan, but thanks to the Panorama programme was seen to retract this. One of Cliff’s accusers (the serial rapist with mental health issues) was said to have also claimed Brittan had abused him. I don’t think they are one and the same but it was Fay who made the ‘Cliff visited Elm Guest House!’ claims & was responsible for the ‘Brittan in a tutu’ stuff too; perhaps he met the serial rapist when he himself was banged up for money-laundering.
- Bandini
June 21, 2016 at 12:53 pm -
Whoops, meant to add that more details can be found in the following article & comments:
http://jimcannotfixthis.blogspot.com.es/2016/02/multiplicity.html
- Bandini
- IlovetheBBC
June 22, 2016 at 12:42 am -
As soon as I read that one of our ‘Arry’s accusers had bought himself a dog collar online, I thought of the poor half-witted creature who has featured in so many previous accusations. Why, he even had to muff-dive Edwina Curry, as he related to that other paragon of twisted virtue, Bill Baloney (their hilarious ‘interview’ is still on Youtube. I’m particularly fond of the bit where Bill slaps his own forehead with mock horror at the revelation BBC orgiasts were involved).
So far, ‘Arry’s allegators have included a psychotic multiple rapist serving life, a man charged with blackmailing him, and a known serial fantasist with the mind of a cunning child.
Can’t wait to hear about the rest. - Tracy Hodgkins
June 28, 2016 at 4:56 pm -
The bloke who attempted to blackmail Cliff was actually not charged. He was arrested and bailed, bail conditions were that he made no contact with Cliff, anyone who works for him, or his family. So, what did blackamiler do? He toddled along to the SYP who practically had a neon sign saying ‘Accuse Cliff Here’ on the go, and accused Cliff of molesting him, and obviously Plod don’t check people’s histories. They just believe every word, just because it suits.
The Krays stuff is fabricated nonsense. Sir Cliff has never met the Krays or mixed in circles where he would. One of them fancied him years ago, well known fact, but that is it. No connection whatsoever and anyone who knows anything knows it.
Don’t rule out Cliff suing. He’s recovering from what’s been done to him, which I don’t think anyone with decency would begrudge, and then I think he’ll sue. He hasn’t accepted the mealy-mouthed apologies from either the idiots at the police or the scum at the BBC. Personally I hope he drags them kicking and screaming through every court in the land.
Nearly two years of investigation by the SYP. The first allegation, the Bramall Lane one, was, without Cliff’s knowledge, investigated by Yewtree for a year before being handed over to the SYP to have a go. The Met never interviewed Cliff or made contact with him. You would think the Met would have picked up on the details of the building being entirely wrong, Cliff being surrounded by security all the time, including police, and even the date being wrong, but no. They deliberately handed it over to the SYP, who, with the BBC, deliberately set out to wreck this man’s life. I hope the lot of them rot in hell.
- Alexander Baron
July 14, 2016 at 2:28 pm -
Don’t know how accurate this is, but the police should prosecute a few of these freaks, even if they are nutters. That would shut up the believe crowd. What a scam.
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