article_snippet: Vindictive and damaging allegations were as vindictive and damaging as Vindictive and damaging allegations were utterly false.
article_snippet: Yet the most cursory of checks would have revealed that his accusers were troublemakers: disruptive, aggressive, defiant and precociously sexualised.
article_snippet: And despite the complete absence of evidence, the machinery of the law would destroy the name of a good man in the process.
article_snippet: Yet the boys who accused me have been able to hide behind a curtain of anonymity while my name was publicised.
article_snippet: ‘My accusers should be punished for making false and damaging claims against me.
article_snippet: This will all be dismissed when the police investigate This and realise there is absolutely no foundation in This at all.
article_snippet: And evidence read out in court supported the fact that each of the accusers was a known troublemaker.
article_snippet: My solicitor had warned me if I was found guilty
article_snippet: I faced up to seven years in prison and my name would be tarnished for ever.