TV paedophile Stuart Hall won't say sorry for his crimes
TV PAEDOPHILE Stuart Hall has revealed that he prays for victims of his child sex attacks – but refused to apologise.
TV paedophile Stuart Hall was first sentenced in 2013
The former It’s A Knockout presenter, who was released from jail last week, said he is a “changed man”.
Hall, who is 86 on Christmas Day, was freed halfway into a five-year sentence for assaulting 13 girls aged nine to 17.
The disgraced star, who also worked as a football reporter for BBC Radio 5 Live, left HMP Wymott in Leyland, Lancashire, last week.
He has been staying at a bail hostel in Oldham, where he sleeps in a bunk-style bed and has been seen eating a pie.
Hall, wearing a white jumper, pink polo shirt and grey jogging bottoms, looked around nervously as he went out for a walk.
Hall was freed halfway into a five-year sentence for assaulting 13 girls aged nine to 17
I have nothing to say
Asked if he was ready to offer a public apology for his crimes, he said: “I have nothing to say. I will publish everything when I’m ready. It’s all in my prayers.”
When asked if this meant he prayed for his victims, he said: “It’s for everyone, it’s for the world.”
Asked if he was a changed man, Hall answered: “Yes.” But he added: “Well, I am a man.”
His surroundings are a far cry from the detached home in upmarket Wilmslow, Cheshire, he shared with his wife Hazel.
'I have nothing to say. I will publish everything when I’m ready', said the former TV presenter
James Hill, 54, who lives near the hostel, said: “He’s a disgusting man. I wish he wasn’t walking near my home.”
Hall’s original 15-month sentence, imposed in 2013, was doubled after appeal judges ruled it was “inadequate”.
Last May he was given another 30 months for two more indecent assaults.