Ninety could be dragged to court for failing to buy a TV licence after the over-75s are stripped of their free licences, the BBC admitted today.
Director-general Lord Tony Hall said it was “conceivable” a nonagenarian could be prosecuted for dodging the fee, when curbs are imposed from June.
He was asked by the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee if he “was really prepared to take 80- or 90-year-olds to court” for non-payment.
He said: “I don’t want to see people going to court, of course I don’t. “It’s conceivable but we don’t want that. We absolutely don’t want to get there.” MP John Nicolson told him: “Imagine the reputational damage. “The distress caused to these old people...
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