Postby performer » December 5th, 2019, 9:35 pm
Yes. I read recently about Carl Beech. He got 18 years for spreading lies about Greville and other prominent people. I couldn't believe the crap that I was reading about Greville. I just KNEW it couldn't be true! I didn't know that much about the individual cases but I KNEW, I just KNEW it had to be garbage! Greville was one of the managers of a Jewish youth club I belonged to (Brady Boys Club) and organised many charity shows I participated in with a music group singing Israeli folk songs called the Brady Ramblers. They sang and I did magic. I knew Greville quite well and had been in his home a few times. I had never seen or experienced anything untoward. And if there had ever been anything untoward towards a single member of the Brady Boys Club it would have been around the club like wildfire. Neither I nor anyone else ever heard a damn thing. And even at the height of the scandal you would never, ever have found a single ex-member of the Brady club to believe a single word of that crap. In fact there is a facebook group for old Brady members of which I am a member. Nobody on that group ever believed a single word of those disgusting accusations.
I am very glad that this Beech fellow's conviction goes a long way to vindicate Lord Janner, a man for whom I had the greatest admiration. I mentioned him over several pages in my memoirs "The Lives of a Showman" before all the accusations came out. Members of my family said that if I ever reprint the book again I should leave out any reference to Greville. I utterly refused to do so at the time and I never will in the future. He was a most wonderful man of great integrity who did a lot for the Jewish community in the UK.