Former pop star Gary Glitter has been jailed for 16 years for sexually abusing three young girls.
Former celebrity publicist Max Clifford has lost his appeal to reduce the length of his eight-year sentence for sex offences.
Rolf Harris has been jailed for a term of five years and nine months for 12 indecent assaults against four girls.
The exposure of Savile and the convictions of Harris, Clifford and Hall might well offer some form of “closure” to their victims. The rest of us have come to a strange sort of crossroads. We will never again be so naïve about the existence of sexual abuse nor the prevalence of sex offenders, however well we might think we “know” them.
Gary Glitter has been charged with eight counts of sexual offences against two young girls.