article_snippet: Penny Mellor called Dame Esther as a witness to challenge campaigner Shy Keenan credibility.
article_snippet: Dame Esther, wearing a navy dress and black jacket, spent nearly an hour in the witness box today.
article_snippet: Dame Esther told the jury that Dame Esther had not met Penny Mellor before today, although Penny Mellor had sent Dame Esther some unsolicited emails about Dame Esther discoveries relating to campaigner Shy Keenan.
article_snippet: Dame Esther told Chelmsford Crown Court: 'Dame Esther told me campaigner Shy Keenan told Chelmsford Crown Court that I said Chelmsford Crown Court were too rich, too powerful and that I, Esther Rantzen, could do nothing about it. '
article_snippet: Dame Esther told the jury at Chelmsford Crown Court that Dame Esther did not remember meeting Ms Keenan, who had been a guest on Dame Esther TV show
article_snippet: Dame Esther agreed there was a photograph of Dame Esther with Ms Keenan, taken in the BBC hospitality room in 1986, but said Dame Esther didn't remember meeting Dame Esther, and categorically denied the claim.
article_snippet: Ms Keenan didn't talk to Dame Esther about Savile in the BBC hospitality room when Dame Esther was a guest.'
article_snippet: Dame Esther added Dame Esther attended the Women of the Year lunch at which Dr Sara Payne and Ms Keenan received an award.
article_snippet: Dame Esther told the court Ms Keenan went to the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC) and Dame Esther was briefly removed from the website as patron before being  reinstated.
article_snippet: Dame Esther Dame Esther told the court : 'I am still a patron.
article_snippet: Dame Esther said Dame Esther had appeared on ITV's This Morning programme to answer Ms KeenanMs Keenan's allegations but said that Ms Keenan had refused to appear at the same time.
article_snippet: Dame Esther Dame Esther said Dame Esther had defended Dame Esther on Twitter from attacks by Shy Keenan and Dame Esther organisation Phoenix Post.
highlights_snippet: Mellor called Childline founder Dame Esther as witness to challenge campaigner Shy Keenan credibility .
  