PAEDO Stuart Hall spoke to The Sun in his first interview since leaving
jail — and sparked fury by vowing vengeance on his victims.
The self-pitying BBC perv made out he was the victim, whingeing: “To go from
being a national treasure to the bottom of the pond has been very difficult.
“The vindictive malicious people who have impugned me will think again. I’m
hoping for fairness from everybody.” Hall, 86, spoke on the eve of a damning
report into his conduct at the BBC.
The shamed It’s A Knockout presenter was released on a tag in December after
serving half of a five-year jail term for abusing 13 girls, including one
aged nine.
But Hall, with a mystery woman he called a “very old friend”, spoke as though
he was the one who had been wronged, whining: “I am bearing up. I am living
in a vacuum. It’s like being in a void.
“I keep my discipline. I rise at 7am and have breakfast then a shower.
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“I don’t look more than a day ahead. I live one day at a time.”
Hall, living in a bail hostel near Manchester, added: “I am grateful to see I
am still alive. I am keeping fit with exercise, I read copiously and I
write. I have read War and Peace, the complete works of Dickens and
Armageddon by Max Hastings.”
Last night a woman who was attacked by Hall as a teen said: “He’s so
self-centred.
“He’s never stopped to think of his victims. It’s just about him. We’re all
having to live with the pain of knowing what he did to us, yet he doesn’t
seem to be bothered.
“To me he’ll always be the lowest of the low, a vile paedophile who’s ruined
so many lives. When he gets to Hell I hope he rots there.”
Dame Linda Dobbs’ report into Hall’s conduct was due at 10am today alongside
the Dame Janet Smith Review, the probe into the culture at the BBC during
the years Jimmy Savile worked there.
Both reports will look into the extent to which BBC personnel ought to have
been aware of the pair’s behaviour.
Last night the lawyer who led Hall’s prosecution said the corporation’s
failings had allowed sex abuse of children “on an industrial scale”.
Nazir Afzal said: “Some abusers were seen as untouchable. Reputations were
protected at all costs.
“Both men felt immune to even the slightest censure. While those in the
hierarchy of the BBC were unaware of what was going on, it’s clear others
knew precisely that Savile and Hall were a risk.
“There were no mechanisms in place to stop them.”