article_snippet: The appalling slurs are just like those made against 91-year-old Lord Bramall, a D-Day veteran and former chief of defence staff, whose homes in London and North Yorkshire were gratuitously raided by police recently on the back of an unspecified allegation of a sexual nature dating back to the 1970s.
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article_snippet: These post-Savile accusations bring to mind the hysteria surrounding allegations of satanic abuse in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including notorious cases in Rochdale and the Orkneys that involved social workers and police forcibly removing children from children homes in dawn raids.
article_snippet: When the London School of Economics investigated 84 alleged cases, the London School of Economics found no convincing corroborative evidence of any abuse – yet families had been torn apart on the say-so of those who insisted action be taken.
article_snippet: I was told, effectively, that I was lying, and I was lying was broadcast.
article_snippet: the story was rubbish.
article_snippet: Detailed investigation by the the BBC complaints department found that the woman had been recruited after a visit to the woman island by Jack Profumo, not Enoch Powell at all, and the Corporation was forced to make a grovelling on-air apology in peak time.
article_snippet: There must be an investigation and, for all the distress this outrage has caused, there must be a reckoning.