Originally Posted by Kabaal (Post 35721708)

I hope that this is just someone trying to get money out of McCartney or some twisted type of fame. It's disheartening seeing so many icons of our recent history turning out to be evil paedos.

Originally Posted by madmax215 (Post 35721672)

Since when has it been within the law for the police to gain entry to a probety without the owners consent, as far as I know they have to give the owner a search warrent or arrest him to search the house.

Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 35721675)

I do get a sense that these house searches are just a fishing expedition. If an allegation has been made that photos were taken and might still be there, that is one thing, but to search on the off chance there is evidence of other wrongdoing is quite another.

Originally Posted by Top banana (Post 35721643)

Don't know what's going on nowadays with our police. Why would they release this statement without him being arrested or charged.

Originally Posted by Derek (Post 35721766)

If the house is empty and a warrant is obtained they won't wait until the occupier comes back home. The warrant empowers the Police to force entry. There needs to be some evidence of criminality before a warrant is granted, there isn't just a stack of them sitting about waiting for a celebrity to move to the area so they can punt his door in. To stop rumours for a start. The press etc would know fine well a search was ongoing thanks to neighbours and twitter. A Police press release gets the facts straight before the Internet gossip squads can start.

Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 35721778)

I can understand searching premises where there is an allegation of theft or something involving a physical object eg drugs, but what physical evidence after all this time could there be about this specific allegation? They seem to just look on the off chance there is evidence of unconnected offences.

Originally Posted by alanbjames (Post 35721863)

Since Cliff Richard has homes abroad and spends a lot of his time there, surely if these allegations are true and photos do exist he would have had the sense not to leave them in his UK residence?

Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35721960)

Well I know from industry insiders that there were a lot of rumours circulating in the eighties. There's no smoke without fire as they say.