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Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall admits sex assault
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Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall admits sex assault

The 84-year-old on Tuesday admitted an indecent assault on a girl aged under 16, between 1978 and 1979.

He denied 20 other counts of sexual assault, including 15 alleged rapes.

Meanwhile, British comedian Freddie Starr was told he will face no charges stemming from the same mammoth probe into historic sex offences, after spending 18 months on police bail Discount Air Jordan

The 71-year-old was first arrested in November 2012 by detectives from Scotland Yard's Operation Yewtree, set up following the Jimmy Savile scandal.

"Having carefully reviewed this case, we have decided that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute Freddie Starr in relation to allegations of sexual offences made by 13 individuals," said Baljit Ubhey of the Crown Prosecution Service on Tuesday.

He said there was therefore no realistic prospect of conviction.

The revelation in 2012 that the late BBC presenter Savile - a household name in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s - had been a serial sex offender for decades prompted a round of arrests of leading figures in the entertainment industry from that period.

Hall presented the hit BBC television show It's a Knockout in the 1970s and 1980s and later became a well-known radio football commentator Moncler Sale Discount

He is charged with eight counts of rape and three indecent assaults against one alleged victim between 1976 and 1981, in Manchester and the neighbouring county of Cheshire in northwest England.

One of those alleged rapes is said to have taken place when the complainant was under 13.

He is also charged with seven counts of rape and two of indecent assault against another complainant, between 1976 and 1978 in Manchester.

Five of the alleged rapes are said to have taken place when she was under the age of 16.

Known for his florid descriptive style, scattered with allusions to literary classics, Hall was until recently a familiar voice on BBC radio commentating on English Premier League football Cheap Kobe 9.
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