Let's go back to the beginning of Yewtree. After all, this investigation has been kind of established (at least to the satisfaction of Justice Mann, who prefers the Police's media officer's evidence to that of Mr Johnson), as the originating 'source' of the 'source', if you get my drift !
Operation Yewtree started in October 2012 following the ITV broadcast of 'Exposure - the other side of Jimmy Savile'. The Police said they would not be investigating the Savile claims because he was dead, but they would be going after living subjects. And they did, several high profile arrests followed, but NONE of these involved a 'world famous pop legend' did they ?
Note the date of the 'update' a few weeks after Cliff's raid ! Coincidence ? I think not ! Please also note, that this is from the Daily Mirror who describes the complainant as 'convicted sex offender' who allegedly made this claim to Police officers in 2008.
I include this article only as a point of reference as to the gossip online and in print around the time that Cliff's accuser had allegedly, contacted Mark Williams-Thomas. Stay with me folks.
On the 22nd August 2014 the Telegraph published this
2013 ? Exactly when in 2013 was this allegation made to Yewtree ? I should add that the Mirror's 'sex offender' allegedly supplied Police officers with some 'list'. That would be the Elm Guest House 'list' I presume ?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-sex-abuse-scandal-1491904
So, the Police were allegedly investigating a pop legend as early as December 2012 ? Really ? As far as I'm aware, the Police were not even aware of any accusations until Mark WT's accuser eventually made his way to Scotland Yard in 2013. In February 2013 MWT was bragging about how he'd ran his Savile investigation 'like a criminal investigation'. The final paragraph saying
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/feb/24/mark-williams-thomas-jimmy-savile
The response on twitter ?
MWT's twitter time line became a magnet for the 'nutter bus' crowd, as I endearingly call them. Liars and shit-stirrer's is of course, a more appropriate description. How much damage have these people's gossip caused ?
Now, here's an eye opener folks ! You know before Justice Mann issued his decision on Cliff V the BBC and SYP, he ordered a Home Affairs SElect committee to attempt to identify Johnson's original source. Of course, he wanted to KNOW if that person had actually been a serving Police officer, or someone else involved in Operation Yewtree. Well, Go Judge Mann !
In this Press Gazette article the accuser was still making his way to Scotland Yard in 'late 2013'
Mr Justice Mann said the singer wanted to
know whether the BBC’s source was from “within Operation Yewtree” or
someone who had obtained information from Operation Yewtree.
He said he had weighed Sir Cliff’s
rights to a fair trial against journalists’ rights to protect sources
before reaching a decision.
All parties in High Court trial had, earlier in the month, agreed a 'ceasefire' during which a settlement might be reached.
The singer, who has sued the BBC and complained that his human right to
respect for private life was infringed, said reporter Dan Johnson “knew
full well” that information acquired from a police source had been
“covertly” disclosed
The question any reasonable person would now ask is :
Why would someone involved in the the Operation Yewtree investigation wait all that time, from late 2013 until July 2014, to leak the story to Dan Johnson. Remember, we're referring to the fact that CR was being investigated, NOT the home invasion raid (which, of course hadn't as yet been conceived).
We're being asked to believe some nonsense aren't we ? Johnson admitted reading the rumours about CR online. Did he even need a Police source ?
Anyway, that's enough from me for now. Cliff is, as I type, still alive. He can sue those who peddled nasty stories about him online. How delicious would it be, if the same person who began the Savile thing on the basis that the man was dead, so he couldn't sue, was sued himself, for this !
Happy Days
Will Justice Mann get his man ? Who knows, we can wait !