cliff suing bbc and police

[southernram22]

and quite rightly so cliff there is only one word for it congratultions on winning sorry for pun. lets hope the bbc people responsible have there houses raided infront of tv .

[ramspride]

Agreed. It's cases like this where the accuser should be named but I suppose if he was some news paper would pay him a fortune for his story.

[ramAnag]

Needs to tread carefully...might provoke a counter claim for crimes against music.

[Manofpride]

It'll be after the summer holiday!

[Gaspode]

Certainly appears there was collusion between the authorities and the BBC - but as a news agency, would the BBC really have turned down the opportunity for a scoop? Someone needs to investigate how they were tipped off and by whom, but it seems strange that they can be supposedly sued for 'doing their job'....

[ramAnag]

Absolutely agree Gaspode...there are lots of examples where camera crews 'just happen' to be at the scene of 'dawn raids' etc. They don't often involve celebrities and I suppose we seldom get to see the outcome but, from the BBC's point of view, they are surely just the same...just examples of those at a news agency 'doing their job'. There may even be a case for suggesting that to have deliberately avoided this case precisely because it involved a celebrity would have been much more wrong.

[FrenchTrimmed]

Looks like it's Plod in the dock again then - should be interesting!

[southernram22]

and how much those people were paid .