Teen victims of predator Hall: As BBC star admits he molested 13 girls, two reveal why they spoke out after 40 years to bring him to justice 

• Susan Harrison and Kim Wright waived their right to anonymity 
  
• The pair revealed they were among 13 girls molested by the presenter 
  
• For decades they suffered in silence unable to out speak about the abuse 
  
• Television star carried out assaults between 1968 and 1986
• The 83-year-old could now face the rest of his life behind bars 
  

By NAZIA PARVEEN

PUBLISHED: 21:50 GMT, 2 May 2013 | UPDATED: 06:22 GMT, 3 May 2013

Sexually abused by Stuart Hall as teenagers, they suffered decades of mental torment in silence.

But last night two of the women who helped bring the shamed TV presenter to justice spoke of their relief as he was finally unmasked as a predatory abuser.

The pair bravely waived their right to anonymity to reveal they were among 13 girls Hall molested – the youngest just nine.

Susan Harrison said she was 16 when the It’s a Knockout presenter lured her to BBC premises on the false pretext of helping her record a song.

He attacked her in his car while driving her home. Another victim, Kim Wright, was 17 when Hall fondled her breasts at a show in Blackpool. 

For decades they carried the shame, guilt and anger of being abused by the flamboyant Hall. 

They felt they could not report the assaults at the time because they thought they would never be believed. 

But years later they bravely came forward to give evidence against him. 

Finally, now the 83-year-old has admitted being a serial sex offender, Susan Harrison and Kim Wright have waived their anonymity to tell the Daily Mail how he blighted their lives.

It was terrifying... Hall moved his hand up my skirt as I sat in the front of his car. I was just 16

Susan Melville met Stuart Hall after he was hired for her school prizegiving. 

She was just 15, but he used the encounter to groom and eventually sexually assault her. 

Almost 46 years later, she described to the Mail how the TV personality who was trusted by her family lured her to BBC premises on a pretext and molested her while driving her home after plying her with alcohol. 

Susan, Hall’s first known victim, said she was riddled with guilt for not making an immediate complaint about the TV star as he went on to abuse numerous other young girls after her. 

She said that when she returned home in tears her father told her: ‘He is famous and we are nobody. Nobody is going to believe you.’

She went on: ‘I feel he exploited his position within the BBC to essentially groom me and make me go to the BBC offices.

‘I am aware that Jimmy Savile did similar things to his victims where he would use his celebrity status to gain their trust and then abuse them.’ 

She was devastated by her experience with the self-confessed paedophile and she went on to attempt suicide. 

But she eventually married and is now Susan Harrison, a 61-year-old mother of one.

It was in 1967 that Hall, then a 38-year-old married father of two and a presenter on the regional BBC news programme, Look North, was asked to present prizes at Longdendale High School in Hollingworth, Cheshire.

‘Usually an elderly, boring man would come and talk to us,’ recalled Mrs Harrison. ‘Mr Hall was a bit different and he was a local celebrity.’ 

Hall gave a typically flamboyant speech then insisted on kissing all the young girls when handing them their book prize.

‘Normally we just shook hands but Mr Hall was giving the girls a kiss,’ said Mrs Harrison, a private music tutor. ‘It was very embarrassing.’

The young Susan then took to the stage and sang Blow The Wind Southerly. After her performance she joined a dozen girls in their smart navy-blue uniform and waited for Hall to get his autograph. 

He took her to a secluded area behind the school before he offered her an ‘opportunity of a lifetime’.
‘He told me he liked my singing and to write to him at the BBC and he would arrange a recording for me,’ she recalls.  ‘I was terribly excited.’ 

The youngster sent a letter to Hall. ‘I didn’t expect him to reply because I thought perhaps he would not remember me,’ she said. ‘Anyway, I did get a reply and we were thrilled.’

Hall suggested the teenager should buy herself a dress from his wife Hazel’s new boutique. 

After she followed his advice, he wrote again and asked her to come to the BBC’s Manchester HQ in Piccadilly for a recording in the winter months of 1967. 

‘He said he’d arranged a recording session for me and booked an accompanist and sound recordist,’ she said. ‘I would meet him at the BBC and he would take me home afterwards as he lived in Glossop.’

Having recently turned 16, Susan was too frightened to travel into the city on her own. She wore a pale-blue suit with a knee-length skirt considered ‘decent attire’ by her grandmother, and her father chaperoned her before leaving her on the steps of the BBC.  

It was a cold and blustery day and a nervous Susan arrived at reception just after 7.30pm to be met by a man claiming to be a sound recordist, who took her down to a dingy basement area. 

‘He didn’t say anything to me, didn’t introduce himself,’ she said. 

‘I wasn’t made to feel welcome at all. It was all very strange. I’ve realised since then it wasn’t a recording at all. They had mocked it up. He had set it up to get me there and it is possible that others were complicit. 

‘Around five years later I did a real recording for a radio station and saw what it was meant to be like and I realised that I had been set up by him.’

Hall, she said, had turned up in a ‘bit of a flap’ claiming the pianist had failed to show up and he would have to find a replacement. 

‘I was beginning to get a bit upset realising it wasn’t all going to plan but then Mr Hall came back with this other man who was not very happy and he said to Mr Hall, “You are going to owe me one for this!”.’ 

The youngster sang a dozen songs including Someday I’ll Find You, Climb Every Mountain and A Spoonful Of Sugar, all the time being watched by Hall and several other men. 

Just 20 minutes later the ‘recording’ ended and Hall asked Susan if she wanted to go for a drink before he took her home in his car. 

‘In my naivety I thought he meant lemonade and having done all that singing I agreed,’ she said.

But Hall drove the youngster to a nearby pub. 

‘I said, “I can’t go in there, I’m not old enough”,’ she said. ‘He said, “Don’t worry about it, leave it with me”.

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