Creepy Wikipedia

There's a lot of talk now how "everybody knew", but it's not really true. Unless we're collectively saying the whole country delivered their children to be molested for a giggle.

Nobody or very few "knew", people certainly had suspicions, and there was conversation about him being a bit of a ladies man, or liking younger women, or even being inappropriate with kids, but the vast majority of people didn't suspect anything or he wouldn't have had the opportunities that he had.

That and English libel laws, which were designed to prevent the servants from challenging their abusive betters, and thus are heavily weighted against the defendant to the point where the US refuses to recognise UK libel judgments against its citizens.

There’s a number of British public figures alive today about whom one knows terrible truths will emerge the moment they’re confirmed dead and thus unable to sue.

I thought the BBC was publicly funded, so it's not?

Either way, covering this up is disgusting and vile, especially since he apparently hosted a kids show

Another example of how evil the BBC has been, over the years. They literally protected a paedophile for decades.

So many people knew. So so many. And after it all came out they were more than happy to blame it all on him and act like he did it all himself. Nobody went down for it, nobody was published for helping him abuse hundreds