Advertising magnate, Charles Saatchi, will never live down what he describes as “27 minutes of madness”. In those 27 minutes he was photographed grabbing his the cookery Goddess wife by the throat in a Mayfair restaurant.
He told the press it was nothing more than a ‘playful tiff’. He said he and his wife, Nigella Lawson, were arguing over her children.
In reality, the normally happy, smiling cookery Goddess looked tearful and frightened. And surprise, surprise, she’s reportedly left their marital home for the last two weeks saying: “I’m not a battered wife, I still love him”.
She wants him to undergo anger management therapy to control his temper outbursts.
A friend of mine knew Nigella when she was a pupil at Overstone School, when they were teenagers. She described Nigella as a gentle, funny young woman. Charles is well known for collecting works of art. Let’s hope he didn’t see Nigella as a collectors’ item who actually had the nerve to answer him back.
Words almost fail me. Paedophile Stuart Hall indecently assaulted 13 girls, aged between 9 and 17. He was jailed for just 15 months. This pitifully inadequate jail sentence was handed by Judge Anthony Russell. Some years ago he was caught visiting a gay brothel. It looked like the end of a glittering career, but somehow he bounced back and was reinstated and went onto become a senior judge.
What I find unbelievable is Judge Russell was appointed to deal with such a sensitive case, considering his background. Judge Russell handed out a lenient sentence to sex predator Hall. He concluded the former TV presenter, who pleaded guilty, was now 83. Judge Russell felt he would not be able to cope with a long custodial sentence at his age.
His victims are very much alive and some are still deeply troubled by those memories. Like Jimmy Saville, make no mistake, Hall was confident he could do what he wanted and not pay any price. These sex offenders are monsters.
I watched a documentary about Moors Murderer, Ian Brady. The debate was should Brady, who has been force-fed for years, be allowed to starve himself to death. It costs the taxpayer £300,000 a year to keep him alive and some unbelievable do-gooders were spouting on about his rights.
He gave up these rights when he tortured and killed those innocent children in 1966. I’d let him starve himself to death... and use that £300,000 a year to do some good in the world.