TW: Oz sitcom star and convicted nonce to be deported to UK

[Fambo Number Mive]

Australian sitcom actor Robert Hughes will be freed from jail and deported to the UK after serving a sentence for child sexual abuse.

Hughes found fame for his lead role in Australian TV show Hey Dad! which aired in more than 20 countries from 1987.

In 2014 he was convicted of a string of child sexual offences - which he denied - against girls in the 1980s and 1990s.

The 73-year-old was granted parole by Australian authorities on Thursday.

Having renounced his Australian citizenship, the British national will be deported to the UK, where he will live with his wife, upon his release from prison.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61669953

Apparently Hughes will be released from prison by the 14th June.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Never saw Hey Dad!, it sounds like it was really big in Australia but not that well known elsewhere. Is that true?

[13 schoolyards]

It was big but in a "this is shit but there's nothing else on because it's the early 90s" way - it was an extremely basic, middle of the road sitcom that ran for years despite never being remotely funny. It'd be completely forgotten by now if not for the "Dad" turning out to be a complete shit.

Supposedly it was also very popular in Germany, though at a guess the people responsible for the dubbing deserve all the credit there.

[Martin Van Buren Stan]

Never saw Hey Dad!, it sounds like it was really big in Australia but not that well known elsewhere.

A bit like Don Bradman

[curiousoranges]

"I sentence you to a lifetime of horror... on Brexit Island."

[PlanktonSideburns]

"I sentence you to a lifetime of horror... on Brexit Island."

The sound of someone playing hotel California on a tuba fades in

[The Bumlord]

The sound of someone playing hotel California on a tuba fades in

I'm imagining this and enjoying it.

[TheMonk]

"Betty! I said get me moved out of here to a place in New England! In New South Wales! Dahhh!"

[Captain Z]

This is disgraceful, how would Australia like it if we used their country as a place just to dump our criminals?

[jamiefairlie]

A bit like Don Bradman

Hey! The Don is a hero in Scotland.

[JamesTC]

Hey Nonce!

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Sunflower oil, sorry mate can't do it. But I'll tell you what: we got some lovely nonces here and we won't mind if you have a few

[Pauline Walnuts]

MrDoodleburger's overdubs of Hey Dad on YouTube are a, thing.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mr+doodleburger+hey+dad

[Pauline Walnuts]

Having renounced his Australian citizenship, the British national will be deported to the UK, where he will live with his wife, upon his release from prison.

They're not deporting him, he's deported himself, Strewth, even a convicted pedo doesn't want to live in Australia

[badaids]

This makes the title 'Hey Dad!' a bit more sinister.

[The Lurker]

After sentencing, Hughes was sent to Goulburn Correctional Centre, where inmates doused him in human excreta (urine/feces) upon his arrival, despite his being in protective custody.[21] Prison officials constructed a wall of wire screening to deflect further attacks.

Blimey

[Dr Rock]

Nothing stops shit and piss like a wall of wire.