She writes: “I was very sad it had come to this because, at one time, I’d been genuinely fond of him. Now in her warts-and-all life story, The Bird And The Beeb, published by Trinity Mirror, the Rochdale-born presenter has tried to explain her delayed reaction to the Coventry tragedy. In the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal she spoke out over the sexual harassment culture of the Beeb, revealing that as a young Radio One DJ she had been routinely groped – and that her complaints were ignored. Her stance was in stark contrast to her public pronouncements a few weeks before the reporter took his own life. He committed suicide in October 2012 amid claims that a contributory factor was the station’s failure to investigate complaints he’d been sexually harassed by a female workmate.ĭespite it being an open secret that he’d named Kershaw, she stayed silent and was given legal protection to remain anonymous by the coroner of the inquest into his death. The former breakfast show presenter used her newly-published autobiography to finally reveal details about her relationship with the troubled radio journalist. Liz Kershaw has outraged her former colleagues at BBC Coventry & Warwickshire with her belated response to the suicide of one its best-known reporters.

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