Fred The Weatherman's 'No Comment' tactic during police interrogation

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Shades of 'Don't tell him your name Pike!' in this video of his police interrogation:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fred-talbot-watch-tv-weatherman-5157200

Says 'No Comment' 20 times in 3 minutes of questioning.

Apart from a bit in the middle where the cop tries to read him extracts from what he thinks is Talbot's diary. The cop struggles reading the handwriting, prompting Talbot to help him and then remark, 'My handwriting's terrible here!' Then the cop goes, 'Is this your diary?', followed by another 'No comment' from Talbot. D'oh!

Lionel Hutz from the Simpsons was Talbot's lawyer, I reckon.
 


The court heard his teaching career came to "an abrupt end" following an indecent proposal he made to two pupils he invited to his home to look at his telescope...

Seriously though, it is utterly ridiculous that it's taken 30 years for this to come to court.
 

If he really was innocent then he should be going mad at the bizzies, I know I would. Imagine getting charged with being a nonce and then no commenting the questions.. Reckon he is one myself, don't see how there is any evidence to convict people after so long though
 
Lionel Naismith said:
If he really was innocent then he should be going mad at the bizzies, I know I would. Imagine getting charged with being a nonce and then no commenting the questions.. Reckon he is one myself, don't see how there is any evidence to convict people after so long though
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If enough people collectively make the same or very similar allegations and they aren't in any way connected to each other, then that's enough to charge and possibly convict someone even if it's years later.

For instance if children from the South of England make certain allegations against a person when he was living in that area and then a group of children from the North of England make the exact same allegations against a person when that person was living there. Common sense says that for a group of people who don't know each other to make the same allegations against someone is nigh on in possible. I can't remember the exact legal term for it but it's possibly " Similar Fact Evidence".
 
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Lionel Naismith said:
If he really was innocent then he should be going mad at the bizzies, I know I would. Imagine getting charged with being a nonce and then no commenting the questions.. Reckon he is one myself, don't see how there is any evidence to convict people after so long though
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No matter the outcome of a trial, he's been judged in the court of public opinion now. At the very least he'll have to live with that.
 

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