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

Fresh Prince of Belle Val · February 14, 2015

It's Jimmy corkhill I feel sorry for.

bignev23 · February 14, 2015

like you'd sleep in a bed with your teacher, I'd have told him to fck right off. weirdos.

royalblue66 · February 14, 2015

bignev23 said:
like you'd sleep in a bed with your teacher, I'd have told him to fck right off. weirdos.

Wish that lady student teacher had made me sleep with her,would have gone to bed straight after my tea.

bignev23 · February 14, 2015

6th form boys getting touched by their teacher and they didn't object. Hmm something tells me they could have liked it.

rascal · February 14, 2015

You could tell he was a bit funny just by looking at the jumpers he would wear.

Lionel Naismith · February 14, 2015

COYBL25 said:
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 a 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".

They could of planned it on GOT to get some compo

i think it would have to be quite a lot of victims whose stories matched or were similar to get a conviction

Lionel Naismith · February 14, 2015

Run You Phuels said:
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.

True. Even if its all over the papers that's he's innocent

Run You Phuels · February 14, 2015

Lionel Naismith said:
True. Even if its all over the papers that's he's innocent

Yep, that's the danger with the court of public opinion. Even just having a controversial opinion can be damaging these days, as soon as the public pressure is on to condemn someone.

Joey66 · February 14, 2015

BoysInBlue said:
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.

Or Get Saul Goodman lol

COYBL25 · February 14, 2015

Lionel Naismith said:
They could of planned it on GOT to get some compo i think it would have to be quite a lot of victims whose stories matched or were similar to get a conviction

A prepared statement negates the " no comment " issue and also completely controls you're answer. He's going to get slammed in court for the fact that he refused to answer any questions ( cooperate ) shown no remorse etc.

COYBL25 · February 14, 2015

bignev23 said:
6th form boys getting touched by their teacher and they didn't object. Hmm something tells me they could have liked it.

He may have groomed them, we don't know all the facts yet, lets and wait and see ?.

Joey66 · February 14, 2015

I bumped into him once in Manchester coming out of a shop - he stood there at the height of his fame smiling wating for some acknowledgement, and I was in such a rush I just ignored the pompous idiot at that time - how right I now was!

typerkid · February 21, 2015

When I was at uni a lady teacher used to give us a small assignment and she used to sit next to me and caress my John Thomas under the desk.
I used to whisper to her to bring me off,but she never did.She would stand up and go and sit by someone else and start on him.
I was only 18 and she was about early fifties...she was quite senior staff member and I was scared of her,back then ha ha.