I think you're making the assumption that because only 13 made a complaint, that only 13 found his behaviour objectionable. Given the amount of coverage the story has gotten, I can't blame people for not coming forward.
Gregg Wallace hits out at 'handful' of accusers
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I think you're making the assumption that because only 13 made a complaint, that only 13 found his behaviour objectionable. Given the amount of coverage the story has gotten, I can't blame people for not coming forward.
Are we back to 'smutty jokes' now? Forgetting the running around almost naked (more than one person saw this), inappropriate touching - would everyone present have seen or experienced this?
And apparently complaints were made and the BBC ignored.
I am sure in a case like this there will be a ay is a way they can report it without their names being used in the press.
We do not have any proof exactly the same as in the case of rape accusations that ruined the career of the young talented football player mentioned earlier.
There might never be proof. What there may be is an overwhelming body of evidence that mounts up. At what number do you start listening and believing those that come forward?
We don't. Yet.
The BBC clearly think they have enough to make decisions on his future engagement with the show and indeed the show itself.
I keep going back to the same argument if he thought telling dirty jokes was the norm and he has worked with 4,000 contestants over the 20 years surely more than 13 would have come forward especially now its out in the open, this sums it up for me it was just banter to him he saw nothing wrong telling these jokes he would therefore have been telling them all of the time . (not the working class hero bit)
Every accuser should of course be believed, but taking action against someone with zero proof seems a lot like distinct lack of due process, that in turn is the shadow of anarchy.
They were under a lot of pressure to pull tonight's programme and the reast of the series they are not doing so.
Maybe start reading some of the allegations.
I have heard several its all over the news but allegations are all they are lets see where it goes from here.
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Well if you think it's just about telling dirty jokes, you haven't.
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I appreciate this is going off on a tangent somewhat, but Mendy deserves every penny from City.
Yes, what he did was morally wrong, but blimey, if every time a Football player was pulled because they were shagging around, there would be no-one left playing football!
Put me in a similar situation - being a multi-millionaire and you can have anyone you want? I mean, you'd be hard pushed not to make the most of it!
It's not like he was married with kids.
Yes. I especially note that it was a reply to me after I questioned that original post. And I quoted it again because you as yet haven't acknowledged that it was ill-informed.
Why are you trying to downplay these allegations?
I will repeat my earlier post they are allegations lets see where it goes from here.
Allegation - A statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal, but which has not been proved to be true.
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You didn't answer my question.
Even in a court of law, definitive proof isn't always necessary. If a pattern of behaviour has been corroborated by 13 people so far, then I think it's fair to say that there could be something worth looking at. The BBC clearly think so now too.
Stuff like this should always be thoroughly investigated, and not be a trial by media. I'm not saying that that's him banged to rights and he should be hung, drawn and quartered, but the contrary position of defending him to the hilt because "only 13" people have come forward, I find equally troubling.
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