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Much of what has been posted above falls in the "Jimmy Saville looked like a nonce and I never liked him and he is evil: I liked John Peel and so there must be an excuse."
A friend once told me that at his boarding prep school an unpopular boy made an accusation against a very popular master. The other boys hounded him out of the school with bullying and intimidation. Years later he heard that the teacher had been imprisoned for abuse of a number of children over the subsequent years. He said that the guilt of what he and the other boys had done to the kid who had simply been a victim of abuse haunted him forever.
Being nice or being popular or cool or having good taste in music is not a reason to seek to absolve someone from an awful offence.