BBC on David Challenor - well, finally.... [Edited by MNHQ at OP's request]

[sociopathsunited]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-45328860

I wonder if their feet are sore from dragging their heels for so bloody long..

They’ve avoided using the term “rape” which is my eyes diminishes the seriousness of the horrendous crimes committed

Ah...now I know why they had to publish this.

Can you imagine if they continued to ignore David Challoner with this being today's local headline?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-45329451

It appears that being a child in Coventry is not a good thing to be...

The angle is very much innocent person affected by their father's regrettable actions eh?

Rather than the rape and torture of a 10 year old girl?

Fuck off BBC.

bzz oh yes, mealy mouthed and insipid.... Say as little as they can get away with and hope the world doesn't notice.

This from the article is not true:

In a statement Ms Challenor, a transgender activist, apologised and said she did not know about his crimes.

And in fact is contradicted in the article itself later:

"Ms Challenor, 20, who is a member of the Green Party in Coventry, said she was disgusted with her father's behaviour, and did not know the full details of his crimes until recently."

WTAF BBC?

Seriously, you are making it look like there is something deliberately dodgy going on.

Is there?

WTF is wrong with these people?

So how come the article about Nathan Potts uses the words child rapist, but the article about David Challinor doesn’t?

This is really dodgy.

And yet still not reported the actual crime yet?

Which people Bzz? The Challoners or the BBC? Cos both seem to have a lot to answer for, in my eyes....

That other article being run as headline news leaves no excuse at all for failing to cover the other trial. Is the local BBC journo/Editor a friend of the family or something?!?

You have to wonder what kind of childhood the jailed Potts brothers had - not an excuse at all, but it looks as if terrible child sex abuse has been going on in that family generation after generation, each generation victimising the following one :( Hopefully this will end the cycle.

It's odd isn't it, that a local newspaper is a lot more explicit and honest about what happened than the BBC? I mean, they still quote the old "rising star" crap, but they do actually say (without going into details) what David Challoner did to that poor girl.

coventryobserver.co.uk/news/green-party-rising-star-quits-deputy-leadership-race-after-coventry-father-jailed-for-horrific-crimes-on-girl-10/

Now why isn't the BBC saying the same?

Jesus Christ.

I have complained to the BBC about the bias in the article. You do not need to leave your name to do this, although if you do they will reply to you.

Fuck it, I've just complained to the BBC about half an hour ago. Now they can palm me off and say that they have covered it.

They're pathetic.

It's not even just bias there is factual inaccuracy. Plus totally different standards of reporting compared to a very similar case. It's astoundingly bad and all in favour of the Challenors.

Rape and torture, BBC, rape and torture.

Complain again. Progress if you get fobbed off. It's what all the TRA do. Shrug.

I'm sending in my own. It's serious bias.

Added to the "BBC Bias" thread. That one is getting long.

This is just bizarre. Sexual abuse is a very awful thing but in this context somehow doesn't actually imply how extremely serious the crimes were.

I've complained on the grounds of bias, factual inaccuracies and omissions. Yes, I'm expecting to get absolutely nowhere, but fuck, I needed to get it off my chest.

Chickens. They're all fucking chickens, the lot of them.

That Potts family of rapists are a grim-looking lot.

The BBC have form for downplaying, minimising and outright denying child abuse by their own staff, so I’m saddened but not even slightly surprised that they’ve fucked this up too.

I suspect that if there wasn’t a trans element to this case (however indirect) the reporting would have taken a very different route indeed