Disgraced TV star Robert Hughes will emerge from jail to a miserable life: broke, homeless and shunned because of his child sex offences.
) famously stopped Hughes at a Singapore traffic light and asked him about the allegations.
NSW police formed Strike Force Ruskin and in 2011, a relative of Hughes claimed she, too, had been molested. Yard at Goulburn prison where a special mesh screen was erected to protect Hughes from being doused in urine and faeces. Picture: Sam Ruttyn.Police had yet to interview Hughes, but it was later revealed they had done so way back in 1985 about claims of sexual abuse which Hughes flatly dismissed.
On April 7, 2014, a jury found Robert Lindsay Hughes, 65, guilty of two counts of sexual assault, seven counts of indecent assault and one count of committing an act of indecency. Judge Zahra described the once popular sitcom actor as a sexual predator who systematically exploited young girls and relied on his position to ensure his victims’ compliance and silence.
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