In reply to Rob Exile Ward:
> Tough for his daughter, who I believe is quite severely disabled. Otherwise...
Quite.
As much as I despise the tabloid sleaze which he fed, until his conviction I had a soft spot for him as, aside from his hatred for the tories, he'd helped out a woman who'd been a contestant on a game show and had been outed as an ex-escort by the scum press. He'd contacted her and advised her how best to deal with it (for free) as it turned her life upside down (lost job, shunned by neighbours etc). There was a piece in the Guardian about it and he came out of it well. That said, I have it on first hand authority that he was a total and utter sociopath with an off the scale controlling personality disorder, so there you go.
Died in prison while serving a sentence for sex offences is not an epitaph anyone would want. Any thoughts go to his family.