Stuart Hall, the disgraced BBC broadcaster, has had his sentence doubled to 30 months having admitted to 14 offences against young girls over a period of 20 years.
The former It’s a Knock Out host was originally sentenced to serve 15 months in prison, a sentence that provoked an outcry for being unduly lenient, having admitted to sexually attacking girls between the ages of nine to 17 between 1967 to 1985.
Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman was among those to call for a review of the original sentence, which was heard by three of the UK’s most senior judges, who agreed to double the 83’s year old’s sentence that was originally passed earlier this year after his admission in May.
Hall was not in court, but listened to the appeal through a video link.