BBC '˜hangs Tony Blackburn out to dry' over evidence to Savile inquiry
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TONY Blackburn has said the BBC 'scandalously' sacked him for 'telling the truth' and has tarnished his good name.
The veteran DJ, who is taking legal action, was fired because his evidence to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse inquiry ‘’fell short’’ of the standards demanded, according to BBC Director General Tony Hall.
Blackburn, 73, who has accused the corporation of making him a ‘’scapegoat’’, denied in evidence that he had ever been made aware by the BBC of a complaint against him by a teenager in 1971 even though the corporation told the inquiry he had been.
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