Stan Collymore interview

Stan Collymore interview In a candid interview, Stan Collymore chats to BBC Radio Nottingham's Jeff Owen about Nottingham Forest, Ulrika, depression and 'dogging'. Stan Collymore is one of the best strikers ever seen on Trentside. He's also one of football's most controversial figures. In two years at Forest, Collymore was a fundamental part of the rebirth of the club in 1994. In 78 matches he scored 50 goals, nearly all of them were spectacular. His goals propelled Forest from the old first division to third place in the Premier League. On the negative side, Collymore has been in the papers for all the wrong reasons. In 1998 he hit Ulrika Johnson and more recently he admitted taking part in sexual acts known as 'dogging'. Stan Collymore in his Forest days Stan Collymore was in Nottingham to promote his autobiography titled 'Tackling My Demons', BBC Radio Nottingham's Jeff Owen caught up with him. In part one of the interview Stan Collymore spoke to BBC Radio Nottingham's Jeff Owen about :- His time at Nottingham Forest Leaving The City Ground Joining Liverpool Suffering from depression Being in the newspapers Hitting Ulrika Jonsson In part two of the interview Stan Collymore spoke to BBC Radio Nottingham's Jeff Owen about :- Why he got into 'dogging' Staying at the Priory clinic Living in America His work for the 'Depression Alliance' Taking part in Five's 'The Farm' To listen to the interview use the link on the top right hand corner of this page. 

Captured dog clue in sex attacks

Police believe Kara may recently have had puppies Police hope that a captured rottweiler will help them find a sex offender targeting women in Lancashire. The owner of the five-year-old dog is believed to be responsible for several incidents of indecent exposure in the Bamber Bridge and Penwortham areas. In the latest incident on Thursday afternoon, a woman scared the man off before taking his dog to the police. The rottweiler is believed to have recently had puppies and may answer to the name Kara. Police said the man was calling the dog's name after it ran loose. The man is aged about 23, approximately 5ft 8in tall, medium build with short dark brown hair. He was wearing a round-neck navy blue jumper, pale jeans and trainers. Silver bike Lancashire Police said the woman who took the dog was walking her own pet along a disused railway line, near Old Tram Road in Penwortham, when she saw the man. She challenged him and grabbed the dog's lead before the man rode off on a silver bike. Det Ch Insp Martin Kay said the woman's quick-thinking could prove vital in catching the man. "We are hoping that someone in the local area may know who the owner of this dog is and if they do we really need to hear from them," he said. "We believe that this male has been responsible for a number of similar incidents in the area."

Dog saves girl from sex attacker

A dog saved a 16-year-old girl who was fighting off an armed sex attacker trying to rape her as she walked in a park in Luton. The man punched her and pushed her to the ground where he threatened her with a Swiss Army-style knife. The girl fought back and when her dog started biting his arm he rolled over, allowing the girl to escape. Details of the attack off Dallow Road on the evening of 23 March were released by police on Wednesday. A Bedfordshire Police spokesman said the offender did not attempt to follow her and disappeared in an unknown direction. Det Con Grant Maxted ,who is investigating the attack,said: "This young girl has been incredibly brave in fighting off her attacker, preventing her from an even more serious assault. "I am now appealing for anyone who was in the park on that evening, and saw anyone hanging around acting suspiciously, to contact the police immediately." There is no description of the attacker.

Dog bites sex attacker in house

North Wales Police have issued a photo-fit of the man Police are trying to trace a man after a woman was indecently assaulted at her home in Wrexham. The victim managed to let her dog into the house and the intruder was bitten before running away. The woman was upstairs in her house when a man let himself in. She managed to push past him but he stopped her at the bottom of the stairs, pushing her against the wall, grabbing her by the throat and indecently assaulting her. He is believed to have left the house in Ruthin Road on 8 October in a silver coloured estate car, which is described as old and rusty. It is thought he drove towards Bryn Offa, a housing estate nearby. Police have conducted house-to-house inquiries and footage from nearby surveillance cameras is being studied. The offender is described as white, around 6ft tall with short blonde hair.

Man jailed for child porn archive

Tatum was put on the sex offenders' register A man who downloaded the largest known child porn collection in the UK has been jailed for five years. Accounts clerk Andrew Tatam, 34, from Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, admitted possessing almost 500,000 indecent images. He also admitted 51 counts of making indecent photos. Judge Michael Heath, at Lincoln Crown Court, said Tatum collected pictures like a "train spotter" and described the images as "vile". Video clips Detective Superintendent John Ginty of Lincolnshire Police said: "We'd never seen another like it here in Lincolnshire, and neither had colleagues around the country. He has no interest in sex with children ... he doesn't pose a menace to those around him Alexander Milne Defence solicitor "There was just short of half a million images, that's photographs of children being physically and sexually abused. "He also had in excess of 10,000 video clips, complete with sound tracks, of children being abused." John Kirk, prosecuting, said Tatam was interviewed by police only when his credit card details were found on a United States website. Officers raided Tatam's home, where he immediately made admissions about the pornographic material and his attempted sex act on a dog. Sex register Alexander Milne, defending, said: "He denies absolutely and emphatically that he is a paedophile. "He has no interest in sex with children ... he doesn't pose a menace to those around him." The judge commended the police officers who spent 18 months working on the case. "To have to view the filth that I have had to view today must have been a harrowing experience and it is a tribute to their professionalism that they have investigated this case," Judge Heath said. Tatum was ordered to sign onto the sex offenders' register indefinitely and was disqualified from working with children for life.

Police call a halt to Common sex

Police are putting a stop to al fresco sex on a Leicestershire common Police have said they will arrest people having outdoor sex at a site in Leicestershire. It follows reports of "inappropriate behaviour" by men on Burbage Common, named on a website for outdoor sex, a practice known as "dogging". DC Sean Lynch, of Hinckley CID, said the common was meant to be a pleasant place for families to visit. He said: "We will not tolerate any type of behaviour which may prevent people from spending time there." He promised that officers would be monitoring the area. DC Lynch said anyone found indulging in inappropriate behaviour could expect to be dealt with under the Sexual offences Act or legislation on outraging public decency. So-called dogging, which involves sex with strangers in public parks, has been fuelled by the internet and text messaging.

Sex scandal dogs

Governor-General Queen Elizabeth is Australia's head of state Child welfare groups in Australia are calling for the resignation of Queen Elizabeth's representative, the Governor-General, Peter Hollingworth. They are angry about his handling of a case of sexual abuse at a church school in his diocese while he was Archbishop of Brisbane 10 years ago. Dr Hollingworth has denied there was a cover-up, and insisted he did nothing wrong. Mr Hollingworth was sworn into office in June The Governor-General broke his silence after a 24-year-old former student of an Anglican school last month successfully sued the Brisbane diocese for damages after she was sexually assaulted by the school's boarding master. The church was ordered to pay almost $500,000 in damages The teacher killed himself in 1990 before ever facing a trial. In a three-page statement, Dr Hollingworth says he could no longer stand by and allow unfounded allegations to be made against him. He said at the time of the abuse, legal obligations played heavily in his decision not to intervene. Dr Hollingworth's supporters say he is the victim of a campaign of denigration and defamation aimed at undermining his position as the Queen's representative in Australia.

Teenage kissing:

The new sex crime? By Giles Wilson BBC News Online Magazine Furtive fumbling behind the bike sheds is illegal under laws coming into force this weekend, even though the chances of schoolchildren ending up in court for it are remote. Why? Flashing, voyeurism, cottaging, grooming - they are just some of the sexual practices facing tightened laws coming into effect in England and Wales from this weekend. In debating the new Sexual Offences Act politicians and civil servants wrestled with many tricky problems of the correct role of law in modern sexuality. Dogging, for instance, escaped an explicit ban. But necrophilia (sex with a corpse) has not, becoming an offence for the first time. In the government's efforts to protect children from abuse, however, the law also forbids under-16s from engaging in any sexual activity - ranging from "touching" to full intercourse. It would be absurd for us to provide sanctions to protect children from sexual abuse by adults but not by other children Home Office Sexual touching, the Act says, includes doing it "with any part of the body", "with anything else", and "through anything". Depending on one's definition, that could technically include snogging as well as the gamut of sexual activities that teenagers often get up to. The guidance notes from the government say it could include "where a person rubs up against someone's private parts through the person's clothes for sexual gratification". No snooping The most unusual aspect of this new law, however, is that the authorities have no intention of enforcing it. Police officers will not be snooping through school children's curtains to see if they are getting up to no good rather than doing their homework. The government has told the Crown Prosecution Service (which makes the decision as to whether cases presented to it by the police should go to court) that it should not normally prosecute the under-16s for having consensual sex, let alone for "sexual touching". 'It seems to say that sometimes the law means what it says and sometimes it doesn't' Under the existing law, sex below the age of consent is illegal - but cases concerning children of similar ages only go to court in very unusual circumstances, such as where one of the participants has been exploited because of, for instance, learning difficulties. The new law does not seem to have clarified the position. The Home Office says legalising consensual sexual activity between children "would damage a fundamental plank in our raft of child protection measures". "We are not prepared to do this," says a spokesman. "We accept that genuinely mutually agreed, non-exploitative sexual activity between teenagers does take place and in many instances no harm comes from it. "We are putting safeguards in place to ensure that these cases, which are not in the public interest, are not prosecuted - by amending guidance to the police and Crown Prosecution Service." He added that young people under 16 would have the same rights to contraception and sexual health advice as at present. Saying what it means But the move does not impress child rights campaigner Terri Dowty, of Action on Rights for Children. Laws should mean what they say, she says. Police and prosecutors given advice on how to use new law "It's astonishing that the government could consider legislation with the prior intent of issuing guidance to countermand it," she says. "I worry about the message it sends to young people - it seems to say that sometimes the law means what it says and sometimes it doesn't." Professor Nicola Lacey of the London School of Economics is also unconvinced. "What the Home Office would say was that they wanted to use the criminal law for symbolic impact, to say that it's not a good thing for kids to be having sex. "My counter-argument is that the criminal law is too dangerous a tool to be used for symbolic purposes. "With this on the statute book, it will give police and prosecutors a lot of discretion. It could be used as a way of controlling kids who perhaps the police want to control for other reasons. Kids who perhaps are a nuisance or who belong to a group who attract the attention of the police in some way." Terri Dowty also fears that private prosecutions could be brought by an aggrieved individual - perhaps an angry parent who didn't like their child's boyfriend or girlfriend. The Crown Prosecution Service however says that in cases such as this, they could take over the private prosecution and then stop it, if that was felt to be the right thing to do. No monopoly Despite not wanting its new law to be used, the Home Office is, however, concerned that children can behave in a sexually abusive way to each other. "Adults do not have a monopoly on child abuse and we cannot assume that sexual relationships between young people will be fully consensual just because they are the same age." Bullying or pressuring a child into having sex before they are ready to consent "can and does" happen, the spokesman said. The criminal law must make provision for an unlawful sexual activity charge to be brought where the sexual activity was consensual but was also clearly manipulative White Paper on Sexual Offences Bill "It would be absurd for us to provide coherent sanctions to protect children from sexual abuse by adults but not by other children or young people." The government believes it has struck the right balance between acknowledging that sexual activity does take place between children, and protecting children from abuse. "This is a difficult and sensitive area in which the views of well-informed people of good intention are genuinely divided." But Nicola Lacey suspects that efforts to apply the law would not be effective. "Even if they said they were trying to enforce it, don't these people have kids?" 

Teenage sex plan pair are jailed

Vanessa Jones also admitted other sexual offences A man and a woman who met through an internet chatroom have been jailed for four years each for trying to arrange sex with underage girls. Vanessa Jones, 45, and Michael Chester, 42, had earlier pleaded guilty to attempting to arrange the commission of a child for a sexual offence. Jones, from Birmingham, and Chester, of Grimsby, had discussed their desire to have sex with children via a chatroom. They were reported when they tried to arrange a meeting with two teenagers. Birmingham Crown Court heard the pair had met through a swingers website and met in person on several occasions. The aggravating feature of this case is the use of the internet to make contact with like-minded individuals who you hoped would deliver children into your hands Judge Michael Challinor In the autumn of 2004, they met another man online whom the pair asked to bring two girls aged 14 and 16 to a meeting place for the purpose of having sex. He reported this to the police. Computer equipment containing indecent images of children was seized from both their homes. Sentencing the pair at Birmingham Crown Court, Judge Michael Challinor told them their behaviour encouraged others to abuse children in unspeakable ways. "The aggravating feature of this case is the use of the internet to make contact with like-minded individuals who you hoped would deliver children into your hands in order that you could abuse them sexually." Computers destroyed Jones, who has a teenage son, admitted a further four counts of making indecent images of children and one of attempting to have sex with a dog. Chester, who has two sons - aged five months and seven - admitted a further four counts of distributing indecent images of children and one count of possessing an indecent image of a child. He is now separated from his wife and has lost his job as a company director. The judge told them both that jail terms for these offences were to be served concurrently. The pair were disqualified from working with children for the rest of their lives and told to register as sex offenders indefinitely. Their computer equipment will also be destroyed.

Sex attacker 'ordered dog to sit'

An 18-year-old woman was sexually assaulted after leaving a pub by a man who seemed to order a dog to sit during the attack. The woman was grabbed while walking home in Thatcham, Berkshire, by an attacker who tried to kiss her and remove her clothes. At one point, he turned over his shoulder and said "sit" as if he had a dog with him, say police. He then ran off as if disturbed by something during that attack. Pc Justin Miers appealed for anyone with any information to come forward, saying: "If you have even the slightest suspicion as to who this man could be, please get in touch as soon as possible. "The attack was very frightening and we need to find the offender." The woman was said to be so upset by the attack in Ilkley Way at about 2330 BST on Wednesday, 9 June, that she did not report it for two days. Police say the woman did not see the man's face, but thought he did not have much hair and that he spoke with a local accent and sounded old.

Dog walker suffers sex attack

A young woman is recovering after a sex attacker pounced on her as she walked her dog by a canal in the early evening. The man grabbed her around the throat while she was on the towpath on Camp Farm Road in Aldershot, Hampshire, on Tuesday. He dragged her to the ground and assaulted her before running off at about 1700 GMT. Detectives say the victim has been left very distressed by her ordeal and was only able to give a brief description of the man as it was so dark at the time. Police are appealing for information from anyone who may know the attacker, who was wearing leather gloves and a waterproof jacket with the word "gortex" on it. He is six feet tall with broad shoulders.

The Man Don't Give A Fuck

SFA's live climax, captured for posterity on a limited-edition single. When the studio version of this song was released as a single in December 1996, a sticker on the front warned: "This track contains the word fuck! 50 times". It's unlikely they'll be doing the same this time around. First of all, most people with even a passing interest in Super Furry Animals will be well familiar with the song in all it's vulgar glory. And secondly, this 22-minute live version of the song, recorded at London's Hammersmith Apollo, goes right off the swearometer's scale. From Bill Hicks' "All governments are liars and murderers" sample (lifted from his Rant In E Minor album) to Cian's extended closing techno maelstrom, this is the climax to SFA's live set, familiar to anyone who's seen them in recent years. Still sweary after all these years, it's good to have SFA live climax captured for posterity. But as SFA prepare to close a chapter of their past with the release of Songbook: The Singles Volume One, is releasing this single now a signal that they're mothballing the Steely Dan sample, or are they committing to another eight years of performing the song?

Safe As Fuck Atlantic: 19 September 2005

Goldie Lookin' Chain's 'difficult' follow up to their Greatest Hits. You could hardly blame Goldie Lookin' Chain for running a little low on ideas. The parent-baiting Safe As Fuck is, after all, their seventh album, after a series of underground releases and 2004's major label compilation Greatest Hits. As before, Eggsy and P Xain take centre stage. Xain's production is mostly on the money, whether ripping off Serge Gainsbourg on lead single Your Missus Is A Nutter or sampling the Grange Hill theme on Charmschool. A remixed Monkey Love, too, should give them chart action if they think bestiality can get past the censors. But lyrically the GLC have painted themselves into something of a corner. Three songs (HRT, Short Term, Paranoia) are devoted to the dangers of smoking weed, R&B is a brazen retread of You Knows I Loves You, and the unfortunately titled Shit Song speaks for itself. Worse still is the woefully misjudged Maggot At Midnight, which pairs a kids' melody with a tale of sexual assault: "Teenage virgins scream as my fingers spread out/Across Newport town, Nosferatu's about". Brilliant! It's not all bad, however. Your Missus Is A Nutter stands apart as the freshest thing on offer, alhough Sister also manages to be both wickedly funny and as catchy as venereal disease, with Xain asking "So, you think I'm crap in bed? Well let me have a go with your sister instead... If I was you I'd be more concerned with my brother - he's having sex with your mother." Working on the premise that what worked once can work again, Safe As F*ck is pitched firmly at the GLC's established fanbase of stoners and students, and there's intelligence and cynicism in their determination to take the joke as far as it'll go. Oh son, step away from the dead horse.