graham ovenden sentencing and lord mcalpine

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I reported it too.

Actually I think GN might be more inclined to delete my post questioning Lord McAlpine's motive for buying the pictures in the first place.

Indeed Whenim. Ones heart bleeds for the poor Lord. Does anyone knw what he intends to do with the thirty pieces of silver he has obtained in libel payments so far?

OMG! It is out there in the public realm. It probably hung in the Tate gallery! We have all seen little girls without their clothes on haven't we?!

How prudish can you get!

If there is going to be a discussion, it is best to know what we are talking about.

I give up!

Jingle I don't think it is helpful to put a link to a picture of a naked child painted by a convicted sex offender. I have reported that particular post for this reason.

"bad luck"? Who knows.

Perhaps a bonfire in the back garden would have been a more sensible way to dispose of a collection.

Things that could be "got away with in the seventies" would never be tolerated now.

Who can say what anyone's motive would have been for buying his pictures. Even the Tate galleries showed them.

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this explains a bit about Ovenden and his work

Just to be clear, Lord McAlpine says he is definitely not a paedophile, he was mistakenly identified and has sued some Twitterers who tweeted his name.

His private collection of photos and paintings of naked pre-pubescent girls by Graham Ovenden are now an embarrassment to him and need to be disposed of sold. How much bad luck can one man have?

Ovenden as been found guilty beyond reasonabe doubt, and his many paintings have contributed to good evidence.

I struggle to understand why Lord McAlpine bought those pictures in the first place. Hmm The 'old boy network' disgusts me. How much manoevring has gone on behind doors to help maintain the monetary value of these pictures, how do the people who were the child subjects of these pictures feel about what is happening now, are these pictures now apropriate for placing on the market, given they were painted by a convicted sex offender who abused some of the children he painted? So many issues to untangle and completely wrong to try to capitalise on this situation.

I hope Lord McAlpine does the decent thing and withdraws the pictures.