Post by Teddy Bear on Oct 5, 2011 15:26:36 GMT
From an article on the BNP website: The BBC is currently preparing a smear programme attacking the British National Party. Like their friends on the far-left, they delight in “uncovering” past criminality or salacious gossip on any of our members or officials.
By way of 'getting even', they have researched some of the BBC staff who have also been involved in criminal acts of one sort or another, and provide a list.
I believe so much of the British public tend to assume that 'the voice' or face they see and hear giving their opinions on news related matters have some kind of 'extra' intelligence on it. In fact they are little more than lowly media college graduates at best who if they would have been more intelligent might have chosen to achieve something in their lives instead of reporting on those who have, and offering their limited scope on it.
I would generally categorise it like this:
Those that can - do
Those that can't - teach
Those that can't teach - administrate
Those that can't administrate - give their opinion on all the others.
The irony is, it is the bottom rung who is really running so much of the policy of this country.
The BBC, along with their unqualified arrogance, especially like to present themselves in a 'holier than thou' manner. This list is just to show they're not only far from that, most if not all guilty of breaching their charter, but some are common criminals too.
(hat-tip - Carl)
By way of 'getting even', they have researched some of the BBC staff who have also been involved in criminal acts of one sort or another, and provide a list.
I believe so much of the British public tend to assume that 'the voice' or face they see and hear giving their opinions on news related matters have some kind of 'extra' intelligence on it. In fact they are little more than lowly media college graduates at best who if they would have been more intelligent might have chosen to achieve something in their lives instead of reporting on those who have, and offering their limited scope on it.
I would generally categorise it like this:
Those that can - do
Those that can't - teach
Those that can't teach - administrate
Those that can't administrate - give their opinion on all the others.
The irony is, it is the bottom rung who is really running so much of the policy of this country.
The BBC, along with their unqualified arrogance, especially like to present themselves in a 'holier than thou' manner. This list is just to show they're not only far from that, most if not all guilty of breaching their charter, but some are common criminals too.
(hat-tip - Carl)
BBC roll of shame
1. BBC Presenter Peter Rowell
On 22 April 2011, Avon and Somerset Police announced that Rowell had been charged with four counts of indecent assault, dating back to the 1990s, and had been remanded in custody. In May 2011, Rowell was charged with seven counts of possessing and making indecent images of children along with seven counts of indecent assault against girls under the age of 16.
On 9 June 2011, it was announced that Mr. Rowell would stand to face charges relating to a fifth victim, including rape of a minor. He appeared in North Avon Magistrates' Court to face three new charges: two of indecent assault and one of rape against a 16-year-old victim. He was released on bail, having had a curfew imposed by the courts. He was also ordered to surrender his passport. He returned to court on June 24 for a plea hearing on these latest charges and was released on bail with conditions attached until October 2011.
BBC Radio Bristol managing editor Tim Pemberton said: "Peter has worked for Radio Bristol for about a year now. His colleagues here respect and like him and the audience have responded very well to him."
2. BBC "MacIntyre Undercover" Journalist James Raven
20 Aug 2004 – Found guilty of the murder of a man tortured to death in front of his children.
During the BBC man's trial it emerged that the £40k-a-year journalist had tortured his victim to death in Cheshire, having tied up his children and forced them to watch. The victim was beaten, whipped, burned and attacked with a staple gun. He died after being hung upside down and sexually assaulted with a metal bar.
3. BBC Sports Producer Martyn Smith, "Match of the Day"
2009, London Southwark Court – Smith pleaded guilty to 14 sample counts of making indecent photographs of a child on or before 2 April 2009.
Sentencing Judge Andrew Goymer said some of the material was ‘quite unspeakable... and repulsive in the extreme’. ‘It involves serious sexual activity by adults with very young children indeed and any decent person would be appalled by it. The court heard one of the victims was a baby under 12 months old being subjected to ‘penetrative sex’. Another was two years old. All the images were of boys. He was given an eight-month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to take part in an internet sex offenders' treatment programme. During the trial the judge was handed a sheaf of character references, including some from "fairly well-known names".
4. BBC TV star Ashley Walters, "Hustle" and "Outcasts", screened March 2011
Following an argument with a traffic warden in July 2001, he was found to be carrying a loaded Brocock air pistol modified to fire live ammunition. He was arrested and, in 2002, jailed for eighteen months.
5. BBC Eastenders star Leslie Grantham
Served an 11-year jail sentence for the murder of a taxi driver in Germany.
6. BBC TV News Presenter Ashley Blake, "Inside Out"
In September 2009 he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment after being convicted of assault.
Blake had scarred a 17-year-old for life after inflicting serious facial injuries with a wooden pole. As a result of the wounding trial, Blake's previous criminal record was revealed. He had been convicted of theft on six occasions (twice in 1986, three times in 1987 and once in 1993) and handling stolen goods in 1988. In 1988, Blake was found guilty of altering documents following a traffic collision, resulting in him being disqualified from driving, a ban he broke in 1990.
7. BBC Producer Benjamin Wilkins
March 2010 – Secretly taped a series of sexual liaisons with TV and radio presenters using a hidden camera. He hid the CCTV device in a smoke alarm directly above his bed to record his encounters with a succession of ten lovers. Another camera was hidden in a 'moveable ornament' in his bathroom.
The 'cool and calculating' broadcaster took the women back to his flat where he recorded them having sex with him.
Many of them hold senior positions in television and radio – both presenting and in production roles – but cannot be named for legal reasons.
One of his victims said he had left her feeling 'violated, sick and dirty'.
He was jailed for eight months and was ordered to sign the Sex Offender Register for ten years after admitting 11 counts of voyeurism, including filming five women and setting up the cameras.
8. BBC Radio Producer Andrew Brennard
2010 – Admitted seven counts of exposure and two of sexual assault. Describing him as a 'sexual predator' from whom 'no female in Burnley was safe', Judge Beverley Lunt sentenced Brennand to a three-year community order with supervision. He must also attend a sex offender programme and receive psychological treatment. His nine victims, some of them dog walkers, were aged between 15 and 60 and were said to have been 'left shocked, scared and very upset by his actions'.
9. BBC Asian Network Presenter Lubna Qazi, aka DJ Kanwal
2010 – Wrongly claimed £18,000 Carer’s Allowance for her sick husband without declaring her £25 per hour job at the corporation. The BBC initially said it did not want to accept her resignation, but following her guilty plea at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court, it felt it had no choice but to accept it.
10. BBC TV star John Alford, "Casualty"
Convicted of supplying class A drugs to the News of the World undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood, and subsequently jailed for nine months.
11. BBC "999 Lifesavers" star Natasha Collins
Found dead in a bath in 2008 due to massive cocaine overdose. Boyfriend Mark Speight, a BBC presenter, was initially arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying class A drugs. A few months later, Speight was reported missing and committed suicide by hanging himself near Paddington Station.
12. BBC TV Presenter Stephen Fry BBC
Convicted of credit card fraud and sentenced to three months at in prison.
13. BBC TV and BBC Radio Four Broadcaster Laurence Westgaph
The 34-year-old BBC expert flew into a rage, repeatedly punching his love rival in the face and fracturing his eye socket, a court was told. At one point, it was even thought he had bitten the other man's ear off.
Westgaph has appeared on TV and radio discussing the slave trade.
In September 2009 Westgaph was convicted of grievous bodily harm and given a nine-month jail sentence, suspended for two years.
In 2000 he was given a community order after being found to have had sex with a underage girl.
14. BBC Radio One DJ Grooverider, real name Raymond Bingham
Jailed for four years in Dubai after smuggling drugs into the United Arab Emirates in February 2008.
15. BBC Weatherman and TV Presenter Desune Coleman
Fined £300 for stealing a car used in a robbery and later jailed in a maximum-security prison for further motoring offences. Jailed for three months on a charge of false imprisonment. Star of BBC's "Casualty" and "Doctors".
16. BBC Europe Correspondent Jonny Dymond
March 2008 – The 38-year-old was detained by transport police at Vilnius Airport, in Lithuania, after illegal drugs were found in his bag.
Dymond, a radio and TV news reporter, is understood to have been on holiday alone in Lithuania. He was checking in for a flight to London, when he was arrested.
At a court hearing in the capital Vilnius, he pleaded guilty to carrying drugs and was fined £230 for possession.
He told the court he bought them in a nightclub when he was drunk.
A BBC spokesman said: "We are aware of the incident, which happened in his own time. He recognises that he has been foolish."
A BBC insider said it was not a sackable offence. "It's likely that the BBC will speak to him about this but it probably won't go any further.”
17. BBC Antiques Expert David Dickinson
Convicted for fraud and jailed for four years. The scam involved buying goods on credit cards, selling them at a slight loss and recycling the money back into the business to gain a better credit rating.
A BBC spokesman said: “He spent his time in jail, he learned from it and he's not done anything since.” She went on: “We are all delighted with how well the programme is doing. It's partly down to the format and partly down to David.”
18. BBC Football Pundit Stan Collymore
Made a public apology after punching and kicking the head of his then-girlfriend, the television presenter Ulrika Jonsson, in a Paris bar.
2004 – Charged with assault. Collymore, was arrested at an address in Cannock, Staffordshire, on Christmas Eve, and was bailed to appear before magistrates in the town.
He was bound over to keep the peace for 12 months after a charge of threatening to kill his wife was withdrawn.
Magistrates dropped four charges against Collymore on condition that he accepted the bind-over sum of £500.
The charges, which included causing criminal damage, a public order offence and threatening to destroy property by fire, all related to a row Collymore had had with his wife Estelle outside her parents' home.
Collymore was forced to resign from his job as a BBC commentator after admitting that he had used "dogging" areas to watch couples have sex. Now re-employed by the BBC.
19. BBC Producer Jonathan King
Wrote and hosted the BRIT Awards for the BBC in 1987 and returned to produce them from 1990 to 1992.
He was tried in September 2001 and received a seven-year sentence for six sexual offences against children.
20. BBC TV Presenter Kristian Digby
2010 – The host of BBC1’s daytime property show "To Buy Or Not To Buy" died in a horrific homosexual sex game. The 32-year-old had suffocated and had a plastic bin liner over his head held in place by a belt. Walthamstow Coroner’s Court heard the BBC presenter’s body had been found next to a canister of ethyl chloride – a ‘volatile compound’ with pleasure-enhancing effects similar to amyl nitrate.
21. BBC Presenter Ray Gosling
2010 – Admitted killing a former lover who was dying of AIDS, and was arrested by Nottingham Police. Nottingham Magistrates’ Court heard that Gosling's claims wasted around 1,800 hours of police time, costing in excess of £45,000. He was given a suspended prison sentence after admitting wasting police time. District judge John Stobart told Gosling: "As cases of wasteful employment of police time go, this is as bad a case of its type as I have seen. You know the power of television celebrity and the trust the public and television producers have in you. You have to match this with the responsibility of identifying and telling the truth to the public."
22. BBC Radio 4 "PM Programme" Presenter Nigel Wrench
2008 – Admitted snorting cocaine with accuser during the "gay date rape" trial at the Old Bailey. It was alleged that HIV-positive Wrench had punched his victim to the head before forcing him to perform a sex act. Wrench insisted the pair had consensual sex and had engaged in "boisterous horseplay". Sarah Forshaw, defending Wrench, told jurors they may have found some of what they heard "thoroughly unpleasant" and “deeply unattractive" but urged them to put aside any feelings of "repugnance" about the case. Mr Wrench, of Haringey, north London, was formally cleared earlier in the trial of two other charges of sexual assault and of administering Temazepam with the intention of "stupefying or overpowering" the man to have sex. Judge Michael Shorrock ruled there was insufficient evidence for convictions.
23. BBC Children's TV Presenter Peter Duncan
Exposed as a real-life "blue Peter" when clips of him in a porn film surfaced in 1984.
When he was 21 he had taken part in the 1975 skin-flick, The Lifetaker – the "plot" involves Duncan being seduced by a beautiful woman before her husband finds out and plots a terrible revenge. Five years after appearing in the blue movie he joined wholesome Blue Peter – he lasted another four years until rocked by the scandal.
24. BBC "Robin Hood" star Jonas Armstrong
2010 – Tried to punch a taxi driver before swearing at police officers. Armstrong, 29, who as well as playing the legendary hero of Sherwood has also appeared in the TV series Teachers, spat at a taxi door and called the officers 'f****** pussies' before being 'forcibly' arrested. Armstrong spoke only to confirm his guilty plea to being drunk and disorderly when he appeared today at Blackpool Magistrates' Court. The court was told that Rada-trained Armstrong was given a conditional discharge in 2001 for a "similar matter". Deputy District Judge Jim Clarke fined the defendant £100 and ordered him to pay £85 court costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
25. BBC Radio Presenter Andy Kershaw
2008, Isle of Man – Given a three-month prison term for harassing his former girlfriend. The BBC alcoholic further admitted being drunk and disorderly outside Peel police station on 7 November.
26. BBC Children's TV Presenter Richard Bacon
Admitted to using class A drugs after Sunday Newspaper described him as a "cocaine-snorting sneak”. Currently working for BBC Radio Five.
27. BBC Worldwide's Michael Barrymore
Following a party in the early hours of 31 March 2001, a 31-year-old man, Stuart Lubbock, died after three witnesses – including Barrymore himself – claimed to have found him motionless in Barrymore's swimming pool. All charges were dropped when it later came to court, though witnesses could not agree on whether he was found floating on top of the pool or at the bottom of it.
The cause of death was found to be drowning. Lubbock, described as a "bubbly partygoer", had traces of drugs and alcohol in his system. Pathologists discovered severe anal injuries which some said were consistent with a sexual assault. Barrymore was cautioned by police for drug use.
28. BBC Children's Presenter Jamie Theakston
2002 – Theakston attempted to block the revelations in the Sunday People newspaper through a court injunction, the paper said, but a judge rejected his appeal for privacy.
The newspaper says he engaged in "sex games" with a prostitute in a dungeon-style room in a brothel in London's high-class Mayfair area. A BBC spokesman said: "As far as we're concerned, it is a personal thing."
29. BBC TV Presenter Angus Deayton, "Have I Got News For You"
Sacked after allegations involving cocaine and prostitutes emerged in British newspapers. Asked to step down as the quizmaster of Have I Got News For You on 29 October 2002.
30. BBC TV Presenter Richard Madeley
Arrested for failing to pay for items, including champagne, on two separate occasions at a Tesco supermarket in Manchester. He was later acquitted of all shoplifting charges after citing lapses of memory.
31. BBC radio presenter DJ Spoony
2009 – Was arrested and cautioned after an altercation with an ex-lover. The 39-year-old DJ, who also presents Five Live's football phone-in show 606, admitted grabbing the woman by her throat during a heated row at her home. He admitted common assault and was released with a caution.
32. BBC TV Presenter John Leslie
Filmed snorting drugs in 2002. Subsequently cleared of rape charges.
33. BBC Reporter Peter Lloyd
18 July 2008 – Lloyd was arrested in Singapore, and the local police charged him with drug-related offences. Police had alleged that Lloyd was found in possession of a small quantity of the drug 'ice', one improvised smoking pipe, and six syringes. The Singaporean police said that his urine tested positive for amphetamines and he was being investigated for trafficking a controlled drug. Lloyd was released on bail of SGD 60 000, posted by his lover Mohamed Mazlee bin Abdul Malik.
In November 2008, Singapore's Attorney-General dropped the harsher trafficking charge against Lloyd, leaving him to face four lesser charges.
On 2 December 2008, Lloyd was sentenced to ten months in jail after pleading guilty to three of the charges.
34. BBC Panorama Presenter & Reporter Raphael Rowe
Rowe was convicted of murder and spent 12 years behind bars before being cleared after the Appeal Court ruled his conviction was unsafe.
Rowe has a string of other convictions for robbery and theft, including one for malicious wounding.
Soon after being released from prison, Rowe began training as a BBC journalist and in September 2001 landed a job as an investigative reporter for Radio 4's Today programme.
1. BBC Presenter Peter Rowell
On 22 April 2011, Avon and Somerset Police announced that Rowell had been charged with four counts of indecent assault, dating back to the 1990s, and had been remanded in custody. In May 2011, Rowell was charged with seven counts of possessing and making indecent images of children along with seven counts of indecent assault against girls under the age of 16.
On 9 June 2011, it was announced that Mr. Rowell would stand to face charges relating to a fifth victim, including rape of a minor. He appeared in North Avon Magistrates' Court to face three new charges: two of indecent assault and one of rape against a 16-year-old victim. He was released on bail, having had a curfew imposed by the courts. He was also ordered to surrender his passport. He returned to court on June 24 for a plea hearing on these latest charges and was released on bail with conditions attached until October 2011.
BBC Radio Bristol managing editor Tim Pemberton said: "Peter has worked for Radio Bristol for about a year now. His colleagues here respect and like him and the audience have responded very well to him."
2. BBC "MacIntyre Undercover" Journalist James Raven
20 Aug 2004 – Found guilty of the murder of a man tortured to death in front of his children.
During the BBC man's trial it emerged that the £40k-a-year journalist had tortured his victim to death in Cheshire, having tied up his children and forced them to watch. The victim was beaten, whipped, burned and attacked with a staple gun. He died after being hung upside down and sexually assaulted with a metal bar.
3. BBC Sports Producer Martyn Smith, "Match of the Day"
2009, London Southwark Court – Smith pleaded guilty to 14 sample counts of making indecent photographs of a child on or before 2 April 2009.
Sentencing Judge Andrew Goymer said some of the material was ‘quite unspeakable... and repulsive in the extreme’. ‘It involves serious sexual activity by adults with very young children indeed and any decent person would be appalled by it. The court heard one of the victims was a baby under 12 months old being subjected to ‘penetrative sex’. Another was two years old. All the images were of boys. He was given an eight-month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to take part in an internet sex offenders' treatment programme. During the trial the judge was handed a sheaf of character references, including some from "fairly well-known names".
4. BBC TV star Ashley Walters, "Hustle" and "Outcasts", screened March 2011
Following an argument with a traffic warden in July 2001, he was found to be carrying a loaded Brocock air pistol modified to fire live ammunition. He was arrested and, in 2002, jailed for eighteen months.
5. BBC Eastenders star Leslie Grantham
Served an 11-year jail sentence for the murder of a taxi driver in Germany.
6. BBC TV News Presenter Ashley Blake, "Inside Out"
In September 2009 he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment after being convicted of assault.
Blake had scarred a 17-year-old for life after inflicting serious facial injuries with a wooden pole. As a result of the wounding trial, Blake's previous criminal record was revealed. He had been convicted of theft on six occasions (twice in 1986, three times in 1987 and once in 1993) and handling stolen goods in 1988. In 1988, Blake was found guilty of altering documents following a traffic collision, resulting in him being disqualified from driving, a ban he broke in 1990.
7. BBC Producer Benjamin Wilkins
March 2010 – Secretly taped a series of sexual liaisons with TV and radio presenters using a hidden camera. He hid the CCTV device in a smoke alarm directly above his bed to record his encounters with a succession of ten lovers. Another camera was hidden in a 'moveable ornament' in his bathroom.
The 'cool and calculating' broadcaster took the women back to his flat where he recorded them having sex with him.
Many of them hold senior positions in television and radio – both presenting and in production roles – but cannot be named for legal reasons.
One of his victims said he had left her feeling 'violated, sick and dirty'.
He was jailed for eight months and was ordered to sign the Sex Offender Register for ten years after admitting 11 counts of voyeurism, including filming five women and setting up the cameras.
8. BBC Radio Producer Andrew Brennard
2010 – Admitted seven counts of exposure and two of sexual assault. Describing him as a 'sexual predator' from whom 'no female in Burnley was safe', Judge Beverley Lunt sentenced Brennand to a three-year community order with supervision. He must also attend a sex offender programme and receive psychological treatment. His nine victims, some of them dog walkers, were aged between 15 and 60 and were said to have been 'left shocked, scared and very upset by his actions'.
9. BBC Asian Network Presenter Lubna Qazi, aka DJ Kanwal
2010 – Wrongly claimed £18,000 Carer’s Allowance for her sick husband without declaring her £25 per hour job at the corporation. The BBC initially said it did not want to accept her resignation, but following her guilty plea at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court, it felt it had no choice but to accept it.
10. BBC TV star John Alford, "Casualty"
Convicted of supplying class A drugs to the News of the World undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood, and subsequently jailed for nine months.
11. BBC "999 Lifesavers" star Natasha Collins
Found dead in a bath in 2008 due to massive cocaine overdose. Boyfriend Mark Speight, a BBC presenter, was initially arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying class A drugs. A few months later, Speight was reported missing and committed suicide by hanging himself near Paddington Station.
12. BBC TV Presenter Stephen Fry BBC
Convicted of credit card fraud and sentenced to three months at in prison.
13. BBC TV and BBC Radio Four Broadcaster Laurence Westgaph
The 34-year-old BBC expert flew into a rage, repeatedly punching his love rival in the face and fracturing his eye socket, a court was told. At one point, it was even thought he had bitten the other man's ear off.
Westgaph has appeared on TV and radio discussing the slave trade.
In September 2009 Westgaph was convicted of grievous bodily harm and given a nine-month jail sentence, suspended for two years.
In 2000 he was given a community order after being found to have had sex with a underage girl.
14. BBC Radio One DJ Grooverider, real name Raymond Bingham
Jailed for four years in Dubai after smuggling drugs into the United Arab Emirates in February 2008.
15. BBC Weatherman and TV Presenter Desune Coleman
Fined £300 for stealing a car used in a robbery and later jailed in a maximum-security prison for further motoring offences. Jailed for three months on a charge of false imprisonment. Star of BBC's "Casualty" and "Doctors".
16. BBC Europe Correspondent Jonny Dymond
March 2008 – The 38-year-old was detained by transport police at Vilnius Airport, in Lithuania, after illegal drugs were found in his bag.
Dymond, a radio and TV news reporter, is understood to have been on holiday alone in Lithuania. He was checking in for a flight to London, when he was arrested.
At a court hearing in the capital Vilnius, he pleaded guilty to carrying drugs and was fined £230 for possession.
He told the court he bought them in a nightclub when he was drunk.
A BBC spokesman said: "We are aware of the incident, which happened in his own time. He recognises that he has been foolish."
A BBC insider said it was not a sackable offence. "It's likely that the BBC will speak to him about this but it probably won't go any further.”
17. BBC Antiques Expert David Dickinson
Convicted for fraud and jailed for four years. The scam involved buying goods on credit cards, selling them at a slight loss and recycling the money back into the business to gain a better credit rating.
A BBC spokesman said: “He spent his time in jail, he learned from it and he's not done anything since.” She went on: “We are all delighted with how well the programme is doing. It's partly down to the format and partly down to David.”
18. BBC Football Pundit Stan Collymore
Made a public apology after punching and kicking the head of his then-girlfriend, the television presenter Ulrika Jonsson, in a Paris bar.
2004 – Charged with assault. Collymore, was arrested at an address in Cannock, Staffordshire, on Christmas Eve, and was bailed to appear before magistrates in the town.
He was bound over to keep the peace for 12 months after a charge of threatening to kill his wife was withdrawn.
Magistrates dropped four charges against Collymore on condition that he accepted the bind-over sum of £500.
The charges, which included causing criminal damage, a public order offence and threatening to destroy property by fire, all related to a row Collymore had had with his wife Estelle outside her parents' home.
Collymore was forced to resign from his job as a BBC commentator after admitting that he had used "dogging" areas to watch couples have sex. Now re-employed by the BBC.
19. BBC Producer Jonathan King
Wrote and hosted the BRIT Awards for the BBC in 1987 and returned to produce them from 1990 to 1992.
He was tried in September 2001 and received a seven-year sentence for six sexual offences against children.
20. BBC TV Presenter Kristian Digby
2010 – The host of BBC1’s daytime property show "To Buy Or Not To Buy" died in a horrific homosexual sex game. The 32-year-old had suffocated and had a plastic bin liner over his head held in place by a belt. Walthamstow Coroner’s Court heard the BBC presenter’s body had been found next to a canister of ethyl chloride – a ‘volatile compound’ with pleasure-enhancing effects similar to amyl nitrate.
21. BBC Presenter Ray Gosling
2010 – Admitted killing a former lover who was dying of AIDS, and was arrested by Nottingham Police. Nottingham Magistrates’ Court heard that Gosling's claims wasted around 1,800 hours of police time, costing in excess of £45,000. He was given a suspended prison sentence after admitting wasting police time. District judge John Stobart told Gosling: "As cases of wasteful employment of police time go, this is as bad a case of its type as I have seen. You know the power of television celebrity and the trust the public and television producers have in you. You have to match this with the responsibility of identifying and telling the truth to the public."
22. BBC Radio 4 "PM Programme" Presenter Nigel Wrench
2008 – Admitted snorting cocaine with accuser during the "gay date rape" trial at the Old Bailey. It was alleged that HIV-positive Wrench had punched his victim to the head before forcing him to perform a sex act. Wrench insisted the pair had consensual sex and had engaged in "boisterous horseplay". Sarah Forshaw, defending Wrench, told jurors they may have found some of what they heard "thoroughly unpleasant" and “deeply unattractive" but urged them to put aside any feelings of "repugnance" about the case. Mr Wrench, of Haringey, north London, was formally cleared earlier in the trial of two other charges of sexual assault and of administering Temazepam with the intention of "stupefying or overpowering" the man to have sex. Judge Michael Shorrock ruled there was insufficient evidence for convictions.
23. BBC Children's TV Presenter Peter Duncan
Exposed as a real-life "blue Peter" when clips of him in a porn film surfaced in 1984.
When he was 21 he had taken part in the 1975 skin-flick, The Lifetaker – the "plot" involves Duncan being seduced by a beautiful woman before her husband finds out and plots a terrible revenge. Five years after appearing in the blue movie he joined wholesome Blue Peter – he lasted another four years until rocked by the scandal.
24. BBC "Robin Hood" star Jonas Armstrong
2010 – Tried to punch a taxi driver before swearing at police officers. Armstrong, 29, who as well as playing the legendary hero of Sherwood has also appeared in the TV series Teachers, spat at a taxi door and called the officers 'f****** pussies' before being 'forcibly' arrested. Armstrong spoke only to confirm his guilty plea to being drunk and disorderly when he appeared today at Blackpool Magistrates' Court. The court was told that Rada-trained Armstrong was given a conditional discharge in 2001 for a "similar matter". Deputy District Judge Jim Clarke fined the defendant £100 and ordered him to pay £85 court costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
25. BBC Radio Presenter Andy Kershaw
2008, Isle of Man – Given a three-month prison term for harassing his former girlfriend. The BBC alcoholic further admitted being drunk and disorderly outside Peel police station on 7 November.
26. BBC Children's TV Presenter Richard Bacon
Admitted to using class A drugs after Sunday Newspaper described him as a "cocaine-snorting sneak”. Currently working for BBC Radio Five.
27. BBC Worldwide's Michael Barrymore
Following a party in the early hours of 31 March 2001, a 31-year-old man, Stuart Lubbock, died after three witnesses – including Barrymore himself – claimed to have found him motionless in Barrymore's swimming pool. All charges were dropped when it later came to court, though witnesses could not agree on whether he was found floating on top of the pool or at the bottom of it.
The cause of death was found to be drowning. Lubbock, described as a "bubbly partygoer", had traces of drugs and alcohol in his system. Pathologists discovered severe anal injuries which some said were consistent with a sexual assault. Barrymore was cautioned by police for drug use.
28. BBC Children's Presenter Jamie Theakston
2002 – Theakston attempted to block the revelations in the Sunday People newspaper through a court injunction, the paper said, but a judge rejected his appeal for privacy.
The newspaper says he engaged in "sex games" with a prostitute in a dungeon-style room in a brothel in London's high-class Mayfair area. A BBC spokesman said: "As far as we're concerned, it is a personal thing."
29. BBC TV Presenter Angus Deayton, "Have I Got News For You"
Sacked after allegations involving cocaine and prostitutes emerged in British newspapers. Asked to step down as the quizmaster of Have I Got News For You on 29 October 2002.
30. BBC TV Presenter Richard Madeley
Arrested for failing to pay for items, including champagne, on two separate occasions at a Tesco supermarket in Manchester. He was later acquitted of all shoplifting charges after citing lapses of memory.
31. BBC radio presenter DJ Spoony
2009 – Was arrested and cautioned after an altercation with an ex-lover. The 39-year-old DJ, who also presents Five Live's football phone-in show 606, admitted grabbing the woman by her throat during a heated row at her home. He admitted common assault and was released with a caution.
32. BBC TV Presenter John Leslie
Filmed snorting drugs in 2002. Subsequently cleared of rape charges.
33. BBC Reporter Peter Lloyd
18 July 2008 – Lloyd was arrested in Singapore, and the local police charged him with drug-related offences. Police had alleged that Lloyd was found in possession of a small quantity of the drug 'ice', one improvised smoking pipe, and six syringes. The Singaporean police said that his urine tested positive for amphetamines and he was being investigated for trafficking a controlled drug. Lloyd was released on bail of SGD 60 000, posted by his lover Mohamed Mazlee bin Abdul Malik.
In November 2008, Singapore's Attorney-General dropped the harsher trafficking charge against Lloyd, leaving him to face four lesser charges.
On 2 December 2008, Lloyd was sentenced to ten months in jail after pleading guilty to three of the charges.
34. BBC Panorama Presenter & Reporter Raphael Rowe
Rowe was convicted of murder and spent 12 years behind bars before being cleared after the Appeal Court ruled his conviction was unsafe.
Rowe has a string of other convictions for robbery and theft, including one for malicious wounding.
Soon after being released from prison, Rowe began training as a BBC journalist and in September 2001 landed a job as an investigative reporter for Radio 4's Today programme.
