Comedian Freddie Starr loses damages claim over groping allegation

Comedian Freddie Starr has lost his damages claim against a woman who said he groped her when she attended a Jimmy Savile TV show when she was 15 years old.

The entertainer told London’s High Court last month that he did not at first remember appearing on Clunk Click in March 1974 – 41 years ago – until footage showed him in the studio, with Karin Ward in the audience behind him.