Disgraced Hall stripped of OBE over sex attacks

A notice was put in the London Gazette yesterday confirming the Queen had directed the honour should be “cancelled and anulled”.

Former It’s A Knockout presenter Hall was given an OBE in 2012 for services to broadcasting and charity.

The 83-year-old is serving a 30-month jail term for sexually abusing 13 victims, one as young as nine, over a period of nearly 20 years. He was initially given a 15-month prison term, but the Court of Appeal ruled the sentence was “inadequate” and it was doubled in July.

Having previously condemned the accusations, Hall, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, eventually admitted 14 counts of indecent assault against girls aged between nine and 17 over a period of almost 20 years in April.