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3 unusual facts about Allan Roberts


Allan Roberts

In November 1984, he won a libel action against the News of the World which had linked him to gay sex offences in Liverpool.

Roberts had made enough of a name for himself to become a columnist in the Labour Herald (a newspaper set up by the Labour left, including Ken Livingstone) in 1983.

The News of the World and Private Eye magazine revealed in 1981 that Roberts had been injured, requiring hospital treatment, in a sadomasochistic gay sex club in Berlin during a Parliamentary visit at Easter 1980.



see also

Allanridge

Allanridge established as a settlement in 1947 and was named after Allan Roberts whose borehole's proximity to the gold bearing reef was the precursor to the mining in the area.