National Treasure

This programme contains strong language and some nudity.

I'm Paul Finchley. You're a legend.

You don't need to introduce yourself to anyone here.

I want to make this as easy as possible for you.

You're accusing me of what? Rebecca Thornton alleges that you raped her

on the film set of Japes.

They could be fame seekers, they could be money seekers,

they could have convinced themselves it's true.

Or it could be true.

Marie, you must listen to me. I didn't do this.

Have you managed to stay faithful to Marie?

Where did you go? I spent the night with somebody.

If I'm guilty, I'd say I was innocent.

If I'm innocent, I would say, "I'm innocent."

I don't know what to say.

I believe you.

I am worried about you.

You haven't told me it's bullshit yet.

I would never hurt you. You know that.

Seven women now have come forward.

Seven? Christina Farnborough.

She was our baby-sitter.

One attack she says happened inside your home...

with your daughter upstairs.

One, two, three,

four, five, six.

No, don't run! I just want to talk to you!

I just want to hear it from your own mouth, Christina!

Dee! You were my baby... You were my fucking baby-sitter.

I need to understand... Dee, my children are in the house.

If you don't go, I will call the police.

Fucking hell. I've got kids of my own!

Just, I need to understand.

Well, you must remember! You know what he was like!

I don't! I don't remember anything like that.

Why do you just explain it to me?

REPORTERS SHOUTING Fuck off. Fuck off.

Go fuck your mother.

Hello, David.

You're a shit rag, you're a shit rag.

You're a shit rag too.

The more you swear, the less they can use.

Pre-watershed anyway.

I thought you said this was going to die down.

Can I just say again what a bad idea I think this is?

Well, the way I'd explain it is that they're being abused

as much as I am.

This is a merry-go-round and constructed one.

Constructed by who?

Um, not by who, by what. Guilt.

We all gave Jimmy Savile a free pass and this is the result.

Paul Gambaccini has described himself

as being used as human fly bait.

But with every Gambaccini, there are also guilty men -

Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall.

Savile has simply encouraged the police to catch the abusers.

Yes, but...but why search in public?

I've been accused of a crime and there is, I think,

a presumption of guilt,

a presumption that the police and the press have encouraged.

Why do you say encouraged?

Well, my name has been widely publicised.

I have not been charged.

I may not ever be charged.

And yet, I've been removed from my job.

I and my family have spent six weeks in a painful limbo.

I'm not allowed to see my grandchildren.

I'm a big boy, I can take that. But my family...

You're referring to your daughter,

whose troubles have been well documented.

My daughter is a very vulnerable woman.

She wakes up every morning

and gets abuse from reporters in the street.

People look at her as if she's the daughter of some kind of monster.

Which is clearly wrong, but the point is...

No, no. It's all wrong.

I want my case to be policed.

I want to be proven innocent

and the likes of Rolf and Stuart and Jimmy,

I want them caught.

Of course I do. Just not like this. What's the alternative, then?

Well, conduct the case in private.

But the police argue that by publicising names

it encourages other women who may also have been abused

to come forward.

That was crucial in the cases of Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall,

Max Clifford.

We don't know the details of your case, of course.

I can't disclose anything. Of course not.

The question is, though, what the law should be doing -

protecting possible victims or protecting possible perpetrators?

What do you say, Mr Finchley?

'Well, um...'

You'd do better to do as I say from now on.

That's easy to say. Juries aren't deaf to this stuff.

Keep out of the public eye,

or you could endanger the entire case.

BEEPING

Firstly, can I check your comfortable?

You have all the support you need in the room.

I'm not an invalid. This is fine.

I want to leave, but this is fine.

She doesn't want to press charges...

but I will charge you with intimidating a witness

if you're seen anywhere near her again. Can I have an ASBO?

I'd like an ASBO. Do they still have ASBOs? How did you get her address?

She didn't tell you?

We're friends on Facebook and she didn't delete me.

I mean, what is the etiquette for that?

Would you delete the daughter of a man you're accusing of rape?

She had this, like, smug picture of her new house.

A bit of detective work later...

Did you pass it on to your dad?

Um, no.

Good.

Now, she said when you, uh, shouted through her door,

you were questioning what she said about your dad.

Yeah, I think we've been through this. I have nothing more to say.

Yeah, we have been through this, but...

I can't help thinking that what you just did was a cry for help.

You're wrong. It's a cry for clarity.

I don't remember the things she claims to.

If you saw something,

even something quite innocuous,

well, that could be hugely important.

OK, well, this has been a total waste of time, too.

Can I leave?

You know, they say that for some people the trigger could,

for addiction, be a traumatic event.

Oh, have you been reading Wikipedia?

Aside from anyone else, we might need to protect you from him.

Have you considered that?

I'd like to leave. Dee, do you really not remember anything?

Or do you want not to remember?

I think you know what he is.

So, obviously, this is mostly just speculation at the moment.

Certainly pre-charge. Of which we remain hopeful.

Well, we still haven't heard even a whisper?

Not yet, but it's sensible to arm ourselves for the eventuality.

Shall we?

Rebecca Thornton, our original complainant.

Dates we've done. Travel agent, three kids, ordinary woman.

Looks average, is average. Now, this goes down well.

We've got nothing on her so far, but we're working on it.

Vicky Flittick. No kids, no job.

Claims she went back to Paul's hotel room

on the fourth of July, 1993 after a gig.

She doesn't worry me. We've got previous here.

Previous of what?

She accused another man of rape,

which we can't strictly admit, but Jerome will find a way.

Juries don't like people who make a habit of things,

particularly unemployed ones.

They just don't trust them.

Christina Farnborough, your baby-sitter.

Two kids, sketchy details. Apparently, there's a diary.

Now, she didn't write in it for fear her mum might see,

but she starred key dates.

It was an affair. In her eyes, a love affair.

She is a fantasist. She always was.

Would you agree with that, Marie?

She was always trying to be older than she was.

Now, she claims that most of the events took place

in your car, Paul.

A flash American car, chrome and leather interiors.

She's quite specific. That'll be my Chevy.

Did you drive her home often?

Once, maybe.

We always sent her home in the taxi, if I remember right.

Yeah. Do you know where that Chevy is now?

Scrapyard, maybe. Sold it ten, 15 years ago.

The dates are the ninth, tenth and 15th of November, 1990.

Anything off the top of your head?

13th of November, that's when she stopped working for you.

Got a job elsewhere, in McDonald's.

Either of you question her why she was leaving?

Oh, she was a child... I was away.

I would have left around the ninth.

You remember that...clearly?

Yeah, I do, cos our anniversary's on the 14th

and it was the first one we spent apart.

You were, yes. She was. At her sister's.

Argument.

Yeah. About another woman. Not...Christina.

Well, it's the only time I left. That's why I remember.

Stayed away a fortnight.

Then I came home.

Does that make things more complicated?

It complicates things, but it's good to know.

OK. Fourth complainant.

SHE GASPS

They keep coming in here asking after you.

I tell them to do one.

Thank you.

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS Dee, Danielle? This way, love.

BANGING

Happy birthday!

Danielle Finchley, you little lump of goop!

I'm too old for this!

I'm too old for it, too!