Disgraced broadcaster Stuart Hall released from Lancashire prison
It's believed disgraced broadcaster Stuart Hall has been released from prison in Lancashire ahead of his 86th birthday next week
It's believed disgraced broadcaster Stuart Hall has been released from prison in Lancashire ahead of his 86th birthday next week.
The former It's A Knockout presenter is believed to have walked free from HMP Wymott in Leyland after he served half of his second jail term for historical child abuse offences.
Before admitting to his offences, he stridently protested his innocence to reporters at an early court appearance in 2013 as he labelled the allegations as ''pernicious, callous, cruel and above all spurious''.
Hall, whose full name is James Stuart Hall, said he had endured ''a living nightmare'' and, but for his ''very loving family'', may have considered taking his own life.
Following his first arrest, Hall told police the complainants were all lying as part of ''a vendetta going on against people in the public eye'',
He said that the claims were ''dreams and the light imaginings of men''.
Preston Crown Court went on to hear the veteran brodacaster had abused his celebrity status to indecently assault 13 young girls from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Three months after the Court of Appeal doubled his original sentence, Hall was re-arrested in prison in October 2013 after two more complainants came forward.
Hall was convicted at Preston Crown Court of another indecent assault but found not guilty of 15 counts of rape and four of indecent assault in May 2014. He had earlier admitted another indecent assault against the same victim.