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To think Bill Roache needs to hang his head in shame?

204 replies

dublindee · 19/03/2013 10:41

Just saw sky news article on my iPhone re this:

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/coronation-street-actor-bill-roache-1772534

I am disgusted. I think he should be sacked and I think he should make a public apology.

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anapitt · 06/02/2014 22:49

yes old thread but bang up to date in the light of today's NOT GUILTY verdict .
that's right, NOT guilty

lilyaldrin · 06/02/2014 22:50

Did you actually read his comments in that article anapitt? The people who commented on this thread did so based on his comments, before he was arrested or on trial.

YoureBeingASillyBilly · 06/02/2014 22:50

and he wasn't on trial for what he said in that link. he did say those words. OP hasn't said those words make him guilty of what he was on trial for. the OP is nothing to do with the charges against him.

MollyHooper · 06/02/2014 22:52

He's still an utter cunt or saying those things.

SpinDoctorofAethelred · 06/02/2014 22:52

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MollyHooper · 06/02/2014 22:52

For

YoureBeingASillyBilly · 06/02/2014 22:53

you seem very confused anapitt

have you read the link in the OP? it is to do with things he said last year- nothing to do with the charges brought against him.

he was found not guilty of those charges

but he did say those things in the link.

two separate things.

someone can be not guilty of one thing but guilty of another you know.

today's not guilty verdict does not mean the man has done no wrong in his life.

LizLemonOnskerAtGaTilKobenhavn · 06/02/2014 22:55

his smart lawyers got him off but he comes across as guilty as sin.
he should have done a stretch for those wicked comments in the daily record mar 2013 alone.

NoLikeyNoLighty · 06/02/2014 22:55

OK, this is an OLD thread. What exactly has this thread got to do with today's verdict?! (Assuming that's why it's been dredged up from the bowels of Mumsnet on today of all days.)
What he said previously has no bearing on what he had been accused of. Confused

lilyaldrin · 06/02/2014 22:56

anapitt, this might make things clearer.

In March 2013, Roache claimed that sex abuse victims bring it on themselves and famous men shouldn't be blamed for sleeping with young "groupies".

This thread was about those comments.

In May 2013 Roache was arrested for raping and assaulting young girls

In January 2014 his trial started

The commenters on this thread in March 2013 can't have been expected to see that in the future, Roache would be arrested, tried and acquitted on sex charges.

curlew · 06/02/2014 22:57

He hasn't been found not guilty of holding those opinions, has he? A timely reminder, IMHO.

ilovesooty · 06/02/2014 23:03

I think it's one thing to object very strongly to the comments in the original link.

It's quite another to say that he's guilty of the offences he was charged with even when a jury has decided otherwise.

lilyaldrin · 06/02/2014 23:05

No one on this thread, 2 months before he was arrested and almost a year before he was found not guilty, has actually said that though.

curlew · 06/02/2014 23:06

"It's quite another to say that he's guilty of the offences he was charged with even when a jury has decided otherwise."

Absolutely. He has been found not guilty of those 5 charges.

SpinDoctorofAethelred · 06/02/2014 23:10

I hope anapitt finds my new opinion even more infuriating.

HoopersGinger · 06/02/2014 23:10

Yes, it is mental bollocks but didn't he say it around the time Kevin Grease Monkey Webster actor was arrested? Bill Roaches has since been investigated by Operation Yew Tree so is he really still saying all of this??

ilovesooty · 06/02/2014 23:11

Thanks to you, I am now convinced he was guilty of the charges
his smart lawyers got him off but he comes across as guilty as sin

I would have said these comments imply very strongly(at the very least) that he is guilty whatever the court verdict.

YoureBeingASillyBilly · 06/02/2014 23:11

"It's quite another to say that he's guilty of the offences he was charged with even when a jury has decided otherwise."

if it's the post I think you mean then that poster said they are convinced he is guilty. they are entitled to express the opinion that despite the verdict they still believe him to have committed those crimes. unless we are now subject to censorship with regards to bill roache?

HoopersGinger · 06/02/2014 23:12

Ok I caught up Grin

AnyFucker · 06/02/2014 23:13

have you been drinking armpit ?

SpinDoctorofAethelred · 06/02/2014 23:13

HoopersGinger I imagine he learnt to zip it after that. It may have required professional advisement, though.

Good thing for him he doesn't have a twitter account. Otherwise he's probably have done a Peaches Geldof clanger by now.

YoureBeingASillyBilly · 06/02/2014 23:14

xpost.

It doesn't imply very strongly that he is guilty. it says that person thinks he is. which they are entitled to think and post. look at the Amanda knox stuff- people saying she is innocent, people saying she is guilty and everything in between ever since Meredith kercher died.

ilovesooty · 06/02/2014 23:16

Nothing to do with censorship regarding Bill Roache. However I think it's unwise to express the opinion that someone is guilty when the verdict was otherwise after a trial according to the law.

Hogwash · 06/02/2014 23:19

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SpinDoctorofAethelred · 06/02/2014 23:19

So how would you prefer me to phrase it then, sooty?

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