I feel very sad that Hall has turned out to be guilty of these offences. It's very hard to associate him with such crimes, and very confusing. A friend thinks this is the present prosecuting the past, but for what reason, he can't say. But there is a strange sense of revenge being visited upon perpetrators of acts that were somehow accepted (although clearly wrong) by a more puritannical (or self-righteous) ethic.
I wonder if in 30 years we won't be seeing Johnathan Ross or Keith Lemon arrested for saying 'fuck' on telly.