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THE DAME JANET SMITH REVIEW REPORT THE STUART HALL INVESTIGATION REPORT BY DAME LINDA DOBBS DBE FOR PUBLICATION ON 25 FEBRUARY 2016 THIS REPORT CONTAINS EVIDENCE OF SEXUAL ABUSE WHICH SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING THE STUART HALL INVESTIGATION REPORT VOLUME 3 Table of Contents PART ONE: BACKGROUND Chapter One - Introduction ............................................................................ 1 A. Background to the Hall investigation ...................................................... 1 B. Terms of Reference ................................................................................ 4 C. Methodology and sources ...................................................................... 5 D. Scheme of the Report ............................................................................ 8 E. The preparation of the Report .............................................................. 12 F. Acknowledgments ................................................................................. 14 Chapter Two – The Hall investigation’s approach to the Terms of Reference ..................................................................................................... 15 A. The phrase ‘inappropriate sexual conduct’ ........................................... 15 B. The term ‘The BBC’ .............................................................................. 17 C. The word ‘Aware’ .................................................................................. 19 D. The key questions ............................................................................... 20 Chapter Three – Stuart Hall ........................................................................ 21 A. A short biography .................................................................................. 21 B. Hall’s charitable and other good works ................................................ 23 Chapter Four – BBC Manchester – A History ............................................. 25 Chapter Five – BBC Manchester Regional Television News ...................... 29 A. The Premises ........................................................................................ 29 (i) Broadcasting House, Piccadilly Gardens ......................................... 29 (ii) New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road .......................................... 31 (iii) Security ........................................................................................... 33 B. The Operational Structure .................................................................... 33 C. BBC Staff Perceptions of Management ............................................... 36 (i) Ray Colley: BBC staff evidence ....................................................... 37 (ii) Tom German: BBC staff evidence ................................................... 39 (iii) Ray Colley: Background and working day ...................................... 40 (iv) Ray Colley: Response to the observations of his former colleagues ...................................................................................... 42 D. Stuart Hall, the presenter – staff perceptions ....................................... 44 PART TWO: THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST STUART HALL Chapter Six – Their Stories: Complainant witnesses whose evidence was the subject of counts alleging indecent assault on the first indictment to which Hall pleaded guilty on 16 April 2013 (First Term of Reference) ......... 49 Introduction ............................................................................................... 49 CH4 (1967/1968) (Count 1) ...................................................................... 50 CH7 (1973) (Count 2)................................................................................ 53 CH10 (1974) (Count 3) ............................................................................. 54 CH3 (1976/1977) (Counts 10-11) ............................................................. 55 CH11 (1981) (Count 12) (incident also involving CH12 (Count 13) and CH13 (Count 14)) ........................................................................... 57 CH14 (1982) (Count 15) ........................................................................... 59 Chapter Seven – Their Stories: Complainant witnesses whose evidence was the subject of counts alleging rape and indecent assault on the second indictment for which Hall was tried and acquitted (save for two counts of indecent assault) in May 2014 (First and Second Terms of Reference) ... 61 Introduction ............................................................................................... 61 CH5 (1976-1978) (Counts 1-9) ................................................................. 63 CH21 (1979-1981) (Counts 12-20) ........................................................... 65 Chapter Eight – Their Stories: Complainant witnesses whose evidence was not the subject of the indictment to which Hall pleaded guilty in April 2013 or the indictment for which Hall was tried in May 2014 and are therefore untested in court (Second Term of Reference) ............................................ 69 Introduction ............................................................................................... 69 CH9 (1971) ................................................................................................ 70 CH17 (1972) .............................................................................................. 71 CH18 (1973) .............................................................................................. 72 CH19 (1974) .............................................................................................. 73 CH8 (1978) ................................................................................................ 73 CH15 (1979) .............................................................................................. 75 CH1 (1981) ................................................................................................ 76 CH20 (1982) .............................................................................................. 77 CH22 (early to mid-1980s) ....................................................................... 78 CH16 (1984) .............................................................................................. 78 CH6 (1987/1988, 1991) ............................................................................ 79 PART THREE: THE CULTURE Chapter Nine – The culture in the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s .......... 81 A. Introduction ........................................................................................... 81 B. The changing times: 1960-1990 ........................................................... 82 (i) Introduction ...................................................................................... 82 (ii) The legislation .................................................................................. 84 (iii) Young people’s attitudes to sex ...................................................... 84 (iv) The position of women. ................................................................... 87 C. The cult of celebrity .............................................................................. 88 Chapter Ten – The culture in the BBC during the relevant period (Fourth Term of Reference) ...................................................................................... 91 A. The BBC – an overview ........................................................................ 91 (i) Introduction ...................................................................................... 91 (ii) Observations of long-serving BBC staff ........................................... 92 (iii) Research on the culture of the BBC ............................................... 95 B. The culture at the BBC in Manchester ................................................. 99 (i) The relationship between Hall and senior Management .................. 99 (ii) Ray Colley’s response .................................................................. 101 (iii) The culture in the BBC Manchester television newsroom ........... 102 (iv) ‘Blue movies’. ................................................................................ 105 (v) The News of the World allegations about Top of the Pops in 1971 ..........................................................................................107 PART FOUR: AWARENESS Chapter Eleven – BBC Manchester television newsroom – Awareness of Hall’s inappropriate sexual conduct (Third Term of Reference) ................. 109 A. Introduction ......................................................................................... 109 B. A typical working day .......................................................................... 110 C. Awareness of the staff in Manchester of Hall’s sexual activities on BBC premises ..................................................................................................111 (i) Awareness of Hall’s conduct generally ........................................... 111 (ii) Awareness of Hall’s visitors to the BBC ........................................ 120 (iii) “Nieces” and elocution lessons ..................................................... 123 (iv) Awareness of Hall’s sexual activities in his dressing room. ......... 124 a) Opportunity. ......................................................................... 125 b) Females procured for Hall. .................................................. 126 c) Awareness – during