Stuart Hall’s victims set to sue over indecency admission

Victims of shamed broadcaster Stuart Hall are pursuing civil action after he admitted indecently assaulting 13 girls.

The BBC star, who shot to fame presenting It’s A Knockout, faces jail after pleading guilty to a string of offences against the girls, the youngest aged just nine, during the 1960s, seventies, and eighties.

The woman, who was the first victim to make a formal complaint to police about Hall after being prompted by the Jimmy Savile scandal, has spoken of how the TV presenter tricked her into trusting him before he sexually abused her.

Kim Wright, now 45, waived her right to anonymity to reveal how Hall attacked her when she was 17.

She said: “I was convinced I couldn’t have been the only one and I felt it was my duty to report it, in case there was someone out there who daren’t, someone who’d suffered more than me.”

Alan Collins, a partner at law firm Pannone and a specialist in sexual abuse cases, said he has been instructed by a number of Hall’s victims to pursue civil cases.

He said: “Hall’s admission of guilt means we will be able to pursue these cases expeditiously on behalf of our clients.”