This one is a bit special. Would it, I ask, be usual to offer the opinions on an fatal incident of the mother of a murder suspect?
Not saying it’s not possibly the truth, but since when is “he would never have “harmed Tash”, Mr Speight’s mother Jacqueline said.” the proper basis for a story?
Oh, wait a minute, there’s a detail I’m omitting here- the suspect in question works for the BBC.
Of course I wouldn’t usually speculate on things like this, and analysis of cause of death is not child’s play, but since the BBC is, why not?
Dave T. in the comments also noticed this, I note.
Update: welcome to Iain Dale readers and thanks to him for the link.
Like she was going to say something like, ‘Oh yeah, he’s a real psychotic. I’m surprised he hasn’t killed before.’
Childrens TV + Street cocaine = murder suspect. It’s as plain as day.
It took the BBC a long time after the press exposure to mention it on Radio 4 Hmmm.
Very late to be online too – call me a saddo but it was the first thing I checked when it was reported on sky.
Frankly I’m amazed they managed to find CBBC presenters who weren’t gay.
I can’t wait for the next Beeboid sneer at “our celebrity culture”.
There must be a climate of corruption in the BBC,simply because it is easy to spot drug users.Perhaps the toilet seats at the BBC should be dusted regularly?
Frankly I’m amazed they managed to find CBBC presenters who weren’t gay.
John A | Homepage | 06.01.08 – 3:21 am | #
According to Kirsten O’Brien, CBBC presenter her fellow BBC children’s TV hosts ‘are either gay or childless… and they don’t like kids’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=476629&in_page_id=1773
Presumably in this case two of the three boxes were ticked?
Kirsten is a robo-babe, although she has that ghastly northern way of chewing her words and pulling faces when she talks. I guess this is necessary to achieve the interesting regional accent.
sadly this case is not unique.
last year saw bbc and the rest of the media fawning over philomena mccann, clarence mitchell et al. All of whom were putting forward defences on behalf of two murder suspects.
We also regularly see the neighbours of murder/terrorist suspects being asked to comment as to whether they thought so and so was a homicidal maniac. invariably they say “no, i can’t believe it , kept himeslf to himself”.
IMHO This is just crap journalism – filling a vacuum with ignorant speculation to feed a media frenzy. i think this be banned from all media channels entirely including the bbc.
And who can forget the unlovely Scouser Craig Charles, who IIRC got off one rape charge only to be hauled up again a few years later on another.
The Speight person looks like a drughead, doesn’t he? I mean he’s 42 but he could pass for 55 easily.
What a lovely bunch you are.
Come on guys…what ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Or doesnt that apply to anyone who works for the beeb?
Geez, some of you need to get out of the house once in a while. The beeb does do some good stuff BUT that good stuff is completely and utterly fecked up by the crap way the evil empire goes about reporting, nay, creating news!
Mailman
“What a lovely bunch you are.
Joel | Homepage | 08.01.08 – 10:30 am | # ”
Thanks Jo-el,you’re kind of cute too.
Question: Did you publish a similar post when the same thing happened with McCanns (who were declared official suspects)? No, thought not. Quite day, eh?
korova:
Question: Did you publish a similar post when the same thing happened with McCanns (who were declared official suspects)? No, thought not. Quite [sic] day, eh?
Are the McCanns BBC employees? If not, WTF have they got to do with Biased-BBC?
What a bizarre response. Jimbob made exactly the same point that I did. What’s the problem? Besides, I think you misunderstand the point. They are clearly not treating a BBC employee any differently to any other member of the public (the McCanns). That’s kind of the point as it shows that there is no ‘bias’ from the BBC on this issue. Still, glad to see I wound you up first thing this morning. I can rest easy the for the remainder of the day.
Giving airtime to the mother of a murder suspect is unprecedented. The McCann issue is fundamentally different as they are suspects in a capital case outside the UK’s jurisdiction.
Do any of the resident Beeboids who frequent these pages have an example of the BBC giving air time to the mother of a person suspected of murder in this country?
Given the nature of the interview, it seems to me the BBC may have a case to answer, re: prejudicing a potential jury pool.
There is a huge difference,in the Speight case there was a dead body,in the case of the McCanns there is not.The latter is still a case of a missing child.
David S court proceedings are not active, hence no risk of contempt. And in any case he was no longer a murder suspect several hours before your post
Really B-BBC I think you should all write out 100 times “I must at least try to understand the laws of the land”.
And granted it would seem some Children’s TV presenters do need to think a bit more carefully about what they get up to in their private lives.
David S and Peter – Hilarious attempts at drawing a distinction to two circumstances that are essentially the same. The McCanns were officially murder suspects (the country in which they were suspects is irrelevant) as was Speight.
Biased BBC – comedy gold.
There is a huge difference,in the Speight case there was a dead body,in the case of the McCanns there is not.The latter is still a case of a missing child.
Don’t expect Beeboids or their cheerleaders to grasp that point though.
Still waiting for them to respond to the point made by David S – when did al-Beeb put a murder suspect’s dear old mum on the air?
It’s nto a huge difference at all. They were both official suspects. The fact that a body has been found in one case and not in the other is irrelevant. They were both murder suspects. They both had members of family protesting their innocence on the BBC. Subtle difference, sure, but hardly a ‘huge difference’ as you describe it.
Do any of the resident Beeboids who frequent these pages have an example of the BBC giving air time to the mother of a person suspected of murder in this country?
Here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/3918915.stm
Here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4499103.stm
Is that enough for you to cease your squirming?
“The McCanns were officially murder suspects (the country in which they were suspects is irrelevant) as was Speight. ”
Apart from the little matter of the poor missing child,has she been pronounced dead?
You certainly get your perverted jollies in a ghoulish way.
Peter – what on earth are you talking about? How is stating a rather simple fact (they were both suspects), an indication of my ‘perverted jollies’? Ah, I see. Argument lost, next resort – insults. Oh dear.
Here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/engla…ire/ 3918915.stm
Here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/engla…von/ 4499103.stm
Is that enough for you to cease your squirming?
Compare and contrast the above “give yourself up son” appeals and the “he would never have harmed Tash” from Speight’s dear mummy. See the difference?
Korova,
I can see you have serious problems,,”suspects” in a hypothetical no victim bodge up of a case and a man found with a dead body in suspicious circumstances.
Of course you get insulted if you cannot tell the difference.
I trust you don’t work for the BBC,even their standards are not that low.
Peter – you really are priceless. Thanks for making my day with your hilarious spoof of a loony tune conspiracist. Now off to bed you cheeky scamp, it’s a school night.
Tabloid BBC
A patronising manner might get you a job at the BBC,certainly you are morally challenged enough,but even the BBC would probably like you to be able differentiate between apples and oranges,just so you can be biased.
Sad,shameless little specimen,you really don’t know do you kid?
Didn’t the Beeb famously give air time to the Stephen Lawrence five, including “loveable rogue” type input from their mums? I think it was after the case had been dismissed though so not directly comparable maybe.
Cockney – maybe not, but it goes to show that this is not an isolated incident – whatever schoolboys like Peter might have you believe.
On the McCann issue; is the investigation by Portugese police now a murder inquiry or is it still a MISPA? The answer to this question is fundemental to whether or not the McCanns are murder suspects is it not?
I was under the impression that the McCann’s were suspects in their daughters disappearance. I am not aware that the case is now a murder inquiry. Anyone enlighten me?
Sorry little girl,I object to the alacrity with which the BBC jumped to cover their junky’s arse,but mainly,I object to the use of the McCanns as a comparison.
Fat Controller,
Exactly.