Talk:Paul Boateng

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For the record (post IRC discussion), Re Middle name this is single-sourced and not confirmed by other sources which state he does not have a middle name. --VampWillow 21:04, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hansard have it. Enough said. [1] Morwen - Talk 21:08, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

See also Brent Council's election results page. The Electoral Commission's offical results (364k PDF - p.20) list him as "Boateng, P. Y.". I conclude from this that "Paul Yaw Boateng" is the name he stood under at the last election, even if he doesn't use it on other occasions. --rbrwrˆ 21:42, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I've added a reference to Charles Clarke's promotion. Anecdota

Contents 1 the right honourable? 2 Political bias 3 Last section 3.1 Benjamin Boateng, his son

[edit] the right honourable?

is he still the right honourbale? what is the correct form of address for a high comissioner? Amo 22:36, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

His Excellency, I believe, but he will still be a Privy Councillor. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:19, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Political bias

This entry appears to be written by someone with a vast amount of bias - see weasel words such as 'prissy' and 'exclusive'...

[edit] Last section

Why is there a section about Boateng's son? Is it relevant?/Nicke L 13:33, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I've cut it here at least until it gets formatted properly:

[edit] Benjamin Boateng, his son

Benjamin Boateng, the 21 year-old son of Paul Boateng was accused of rape on January 1st 2006 by a 17 year old white girl in South Africa when he was visiting his father there. Benjamin Boateng, a university student in the UK, who met the girl at a night club whilst drinking champagne, admits having sex with the girl in an alley outside the club and on the beach but denies raping her. According to the ‘Evening Standard’ (January 25th 2006), a friend of the Boatengs, who would only be named as Sophie said: “The allegations were made by someone desperate enough to ruin his life for the sake of making money. She was a table-whore - a girl who wanders around a nightclub looking for rich men to prey on.” [1] The ‘Evening Standard’ (January 25th 2006) reported that Benjamin Boateng ‘spent an agonising 18 days waiting to be cleared of the allegations and being allowed to fly home’ [2]. This explanation differs from that by ‘The Scotsman’ (January 21st 2006), which claims that the prosecuting authority, after making an attempt to hush up the matter, decided after “careful consideration” that there was “no reasonable prospect” of securing a prosecution. National Prosecution Authority spokesman, Makhosini Nkosi, had earlier confirmed confirmed that police had investigated and added that the question of diplomatic immunity needed to be taken into account (Daily Mail, 13th January 2006). A police source said: "She claims they were violent rapes -so much so that she suffered injuries. "Statements will have been taken from both the victim and the accused but it's not normal for any details of the offence to be released until a formal plea has been taken. "It's being treated with the utmost sensitivity in view of the status of the people involved." It usually takes up to four months for files to be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions in South Africa. But in this case a decision is expected by tomorrow. A police source said: "There's no question it has been fast-tracked. Someone clearly wants it resolved in a hurry." (The Sun, 12th January, 2006). In 2001, while still at an exclusive private school, Benjamin began a fledgling acting career when he appeared at London's Royal Court Theatre playing an asylum seeker in a play called Credible Witness (Daily Mail, January 13th 2006). Benjamin plays a boy who has just been admitted to the country and the play shows how unfair life is (Evening Standard, February 27th 2001).

Biruitorul 05:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

This needs to be removed. It does not relate to the man. If the event is notable enough for a page for his son, then it should be put there, with full citations, not the ones currently present. - Francis Tyers · 15:26, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Mmm. The son isn't independently notable; the case has been dropped; it was a year ago and appears to be a dead story. Shimgray | talk | 15:27, 4 March 2007 (UTC)