Freed perv Stuart Hall living in council estate semi after being forced to leave his £1m mansion
Former It’s a Knockout presenter has set up in a three bedroom home costing £600-a-month and drives a 10-year-old Mercedes he has borrowed from a friend
DISGRACED broadcaster Stuart Hall has had to trade in his mansion for a council house following his conviction for child sex offences.
The former It’s a Knockout presenter, 86, is now living in a £600-a-month home after he was released from prison early eleven months ago.
His new digs are located on a council estate in northern England that isn’t much like his former £1 million home in leafy Wilmslow, Cheshire.
Before entering a guilty plea in court, the former BBC presenter signed over his luxury home and fortune to his wife to stop them from being used in any compensation claims made by his victims.
Hall is now separated from his wife Hazel, 77, who called time on their 58-year marriage earlier this year, and is reported to be living off half his pension while she lives on the rest.
He has rented his new home from a friend and is driving a ten-year-old borrowed Mercedes, also a gift from a friend.
She sold the hacienda-style home in February for £995,000 – nearly £300,000 less than the original asking price.
It was in the swimming pool of his mansion that Hall abused four of his 13 victims – the youngest just nine-years-old.
Publicly he has remained unrepentant for his crimes that were committed between 1967 and 1985 but has joined a nearby Baptist church and is a regular at Sunday services.
In February he gave his first interview since leaving the slammer to The Sun in which he vowed revenge by saying; "The vindictive malicious people who have impugned me will think again."
He has even been allowed to give readings and has been accepted by the local community.
A family friend, who did not wish to be named, said: “Stuart goes for a walk most mornings, and is sometimes collected by friends and taken out for the day, but by and large he remains holed-up indoors.”
He was released from prison halfway through his five-year sentence last December and left his bail hostel accommodation three months ago.
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