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The BBC director general, George Entwistle has apologised for broadcasting child sex abuse allegations which led to a former Conservative Party treasurer being wrongly accused.
Mr. Entwistle has admitted the Newsnight film which wrongly accused a senior Conservative figure of child abuse should never have been broadcast, but he refused to resign over the issue. He has also claimed to be unaware of the Newsnight investigation until the day after it was broadcast and had not seen newspaper reports casting doubts on the probe.
The programme didn’t name the politician, but online rumors pointed to Alistair McAlpine, a member of the House of Lords.
McAlpine has fiercely denied the allegations and said: “I have never been to the children’s home in Wrexham, nor have I ever visited any children’s home, reform school or any other institution of a similar nature,” he said. “I have never stayed in a hotel in or near Wrexham, I did not own a Rolls-Royce, have never had a ‘Gold card’ or ‘Harrods card’ and never wear aftershave, all of which have been alleged.
“I did not sexually abuse Mr. Messham or any other residents of the children’s home in Wrexham.”
Afterwards, the abuse victim Steve Messham has also admitted that the man who abused him in the 1970s and 1980s was not Lord McAlpine of West Green and issued a statement in which he offered his “sincere and humble apologies” to Lord McAlpine.
Entwistle told that the report on the North Wales children’s home scandal as “unacceptable” and the staffers could be disciplined for a broadcast “so fundamentally wrong.”
The BBC is already facing the rage for not airing allegations that its late star host, Jimmy Savile, sexually abused children.
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