{"id":31321,"date":"2013-04-03T17:23:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=31321"},"modified":"2013-04-03T17:23:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T16:23:06","slug":"former-bbc-driver-charged-with-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/former-bbc-driver-charged-with-sexual-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Former BBC Driver Charged With Sexual Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stuart Kemp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31322\" alt=\"Jimmy Savile\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/jimmy_savile.jpg\" width=\"349\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/jimmy_savile.jpg 349w, https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/jimmy_savile-56x75.jpg 56w, https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/jimmy_savile-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/jimmy_savile-287x383.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A former driver for the BBC has become the first suspect charged under Operation Yewtree, a formal criminal investigation into the former\u00a0<em>Top of The Pops<\/em>\u00a0presenter\u00a0Jimmy Savile.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>David Smith, who drove for BBC personalities in the 1980s, is charged on five counts including being accused of committing buggery with a boy under the age of 16 in July 1984.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown Prosecution Service issued a statement Wednesday that said Smith has also been charged with two counts of indecent assault and two offenses of gross indecency on a boy under the age of 14.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these incidents relate to one alleged victim and are said to have taken place between June 1 and July 21, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 66, was arrested on Dec. 10, 2012, the CPS said.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear at a central London magistrates&#8217; court May 8 to face the charges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alison Saunders<\/strong>, the chief crown prosecutor for the CPS, said her service carefully considered the evidence gathered as part of Operation Yewtree in relation to Smith, who was employed as a driver at the time of the allegations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/jimmy-savile-scandal-bbc-driver-432676?\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former driver for the BBC has become the first suspect charged under Operation Yewtree, a formal criminal investigation into the former Top of The Pops presenter Jimmy Savile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1615],"tags":[55],"class_list":{"0":"post-31321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-uk-news","9":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}