Starr groped girl, 15, at Savile TV show

Comedian Freddie Starr groped and humiliated a 15-year-old girl at a Jimmy Savile TV show 41 years ago, the High Court has ruled.

Starr groped girl, 15, at Savile TV show

Mr Justice Nicol, who dismissed the 72-year-old comedian’s claims for slander and libel yesterday, said Karin Ward had proved the truth of her allegations.

Starr, who now faces a costs bill unofficially estimated at about £1m, said he did not at first remember appearing on Clunk Click in March 1974, until footage showed him in the studio, with the teenager in the audience behind him.

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