Tony Butler faces the sack

**offog** · 03-04-2007, 12:01

I was linked to this article in the sun.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007150122,00.html

Go to the bottom and you will see this,

Â· BBC presenter Tony Butler faces the sack after saying Faye Turney deserved to be decapitated in Iran.

Have I missed something or are the sun now contributing to BBC retirement funds?

I can not find any corroborating info on this.

edited to add link

**Poppy** · 03-04-2007, 12:17

I read about this somewhere - apparently he was ranting about women in the forces on local radio (anyone know where?) and said it served her right if she were decapitated!!!!!!!!!!

**Ord_Sgt** · 03-04-2007, 12:20

Who the hell is Tony Butler and why should we care?

**h_8204** · 03-04-2007, 12:21

There is a Tony Butler who works on BBC West Midlands, but thought he did the sports phone in, here is a link to his bbc biography.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bio...y_butler.shtml

**Bat_Crab** · 03-04-2007, 12:24

Unfortunately the only info I could find comes from the Mirror:

Linkage

Not much to go on though.

**footpad6** · 03-04-2007, 12:29

This Page has a link to one of his shows.

Tony Butler

**Twist_To_Open** · 03-04-2007, 12:52

have sent a strongly worded e-mail to BBC radio complaints department about this nobody head.

**Bat_Crab** · 03-04-2007, 12:56

Originally Posted by Twist_To_Open

have sent a strongly worded e-mail to BBC radio complaints department about this nobody head.

Did you actually hear the show in question and if so what did he say?

**Cutaway** · 03-04-2007, 13:03

Originally Posted by Twist_To_Open

have sent a strongly worded e-mail to BBC radio complaints department about this nobody head.

Freudian slip ?

**FaceLikeAPingPongBall** · 03-04-2007, 13:05

Have we a confirmed identity for this little turd yet, pref with a locstat so we can send him our opinions of his remarks?

**PartTimePongo** · 03-04-2007, 13:59

Do we have any HARD confirmation he actually made these remarks?

**h_8204** · 03-04-2007, 14:11

Reported in more detail in Sunday Mercury

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/...story_continue

**oldbaldy** · 03-04-2007, 14:16

Originally Posted by h_8204

Reported in more detail in Sunday Mercury

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/...story_continue

The controversial DJ was sacked by former bosses at BRMB after assaulting a wheelchair-bound colleague in 1984.

A serial offender. Chopper.

**bob_lawlaw** · 03-04-2007, 14:57

Originally Posted by PartTimePongo

Do we have any HARD confirmation he actually made these remarks?

From a casual glance in the London 'Metro' newspaper, it appears that he did indeed remark on the young Navy mother and her capture in particular on his radio talk-in show. He has since apologised unreservedly to the families concerned according to the feature. The article expanded that he is not new to controversy. Allegedly, he had a sharp exchange of views with a wheel-chair user earlier in the year.

**armchair_jihad** · 03-04-2007, 18:09

He has to lose his job -

BBC presenter Tony Butler had his own views about the kidnapping of the brave Shropshire-born mum.

He told Radio WM listeners: "If she gets her head chopped off, it will serve her right."

I suggest that everybody should start complaining

This Jihadist fcuk must go.