In reply to elsewhere:
> Probably true that no senior management ***identifiably*** at fault...
I don't get this 'senior management' proviso. Let's imagine you're the bog cleaner and you become aware of JS being a wrong 'un. You're a decent, human being and you have a go at him. He tells you to piss off and mind your own business. Either you thump him or you go to your supervisor and report him.
Let's say you go to your supervisor, who says, "Well I'll have to go to my manager to get some action." He or she may well say, "And I'll have to go to mine."
Meanwhile you're carrying on scrubbing the bogs. But you're waiting for an answer - and some action re JS. Let's say you don't get it. What do you do then? A letter, marked Private and Personal for the Director-General. Yes of course his PA will open it and read it. And what's she (it would have been a she, back then) going to do? She's going to hand it to the Director-General, horrified. (That's if she - and half the BBC - didn't know already on the grapevine. I'm sure they bloody well did.)
If you knew about JS (BBC, police, journalists, anybody) and said/did nothing, surely that's wrong?
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) do nothing.'
Mick