[Osem]

I think we all need to be careful in what we say but I think that some of these accusations relate to periods a very long time ago when what was deemed 'acceptable' behaviour was quite different in all sorts of ways. And no I'm not referring to child abuse, rape, serious sexual assault or anything like that.

To be fair to some of those who're accused, it may well be that what they're accused of now was so trivial then that they may not a) even recall it happening and/or b) still not believe it was wrong. This might explain what appears to be hypocrisy.

It wouldn't be surprising if, for example, someone accused of groping a girl they didn't know was 15 at the time (30-40 years ago) and hasn't heard anything about it since, had completely forgotten about it. Of course that wouldn't apply to the likes of Savile who was a serial abuser and knew exactly what he was doing.

The Michael Le Vell case demonstrates why we should be very cautious about condemning anyone until the legal process has run its course and I'm not going to comment about anyone caught up in all this until the facts are known.