Lovely bloke, Dave! He's the Peter Pan of the neighbourhood. Sure, he has a playground in his back garden, a PS4 with 500 games, an ice cream van on the drive and a pet orang-utan called Schmubbles, but he just childlike and innocent. Why wouldn't we let the kids stay over in his one bedroom...
Maybe, maybe not. The documentary maker states they weren't being paid for their part in it. I guess like all historic abuse allegations, there are only ever two people who know the truth. They usually get to it by the fact that small details, that could only be known to those involved, are...
The trial of Barry Bennell mentioned he lived in a house full of arcade games, videos, martial arts gear, sweets....and, by enormous coincidence, a pet monkey....
I think the thing for me was the total willingness of many people to accept the Jackson side's argument that his behaviour could be explained by the fact that he was just a fragile, sweet Peter Pan sort of figure. There was never any denial on his part that those kids were sleeping in his bed...
Channel 4, Wednesday evening. Features lengthy interviews with two men who claim they were abused as children by Michael Jackson. He's been accused previously of course, but both of these two previously swore in his criminal trial that he didn't touch them. Now older, and with families of their...