Buerk: Stop probing old sex crimes
FORMER BBC news anchor Michael Buerk said police should focus on current crimes instead of historical sex allegations.
The 72-year-old questioned putting in “so much effort” while violent crime was “rising sharply”.
He said: “The murder rate in London recently overtook New York. In only one in 10 recorded cases is anybody charged. They’ve got better things to do.”
And Buerk, whose 1984 Ethiopia famine report led to Live Aid, said of the BBC coverage of the raid on Sir Cliff Richard: “Nobody comes out of it very well.”
He told Radio Times police were “almost blackmailed” into co-operating.
And a possible appeal over £1million in costs and damages could “put more licence fee money at risk”.