Vanessa Walker,who was sexually assaulted by Hall in 1981, says she felt interrogated and her evidence of BBC complicity was ‘airbrushed’ out of reviewA woman who was sexually assaulted by Stuart Hall during the production of the overseas version of It’s a Knockout has told the Guardian she felt intimidated by the process of giving evidence to the inquiry into crimes he committed while working at the BBC. Vanessa Walker, and a 26-year-ancient nurse at the time Hall sexually assaulted her on the sunbathing terrace of a Yugoslav hotel in 1981,said she was wretched at the way she had been treated. “I am characteristically resilient, but I felt staggered by the whole experience of giving evidence to the review, and ” she told the Guardian.
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Source: theguardian.com