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Stuart Hall to be stripped of OBE after conviction for sex offences | Stuart Hall to be stripped of OBE after conviction for sex offences |
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Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall is to be stripped of his OBE by the Queen after he was jailed for a series of sexual assaults on young girls. | Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall is to be stripped of his OBE by the Queen after he was jailed for a series of sexual assaults on young girls. |
Hall, 83, admitted 14 counts against girls aged from nine to 17 between 1967 and 1985 in June. | |
His 15-month sentence was doubled by the Court of Appeal. | |
An independent forfeiture committee decides whether recipients should lose honours if they have brought the system into disrepute. | |
At the Court of Appeal, Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge said the original sentence was "unduly lenient" given the impact on Hall's victims. | |
Lord Judge said Hall had "got away with it" for decades and had "lived a lie for more than half of his life". |