The Attorney General has referred the sentence of disgraced BBC presenter Stuart Hall to the Court of Appeal for review after complaints it was too lenient.
The 83-year-old former It's A Knockout presenter was jailed for 15 months in June after admitting indecent assaults on 13 girls.
The attacks spanned three decades and involved children aged as young as nine.
More than 150 people came forward to demand that the Attorney General's Office consider Hall's sentence for referral.
An AGO spokeswoman said: "Having carefully reviewed this case, the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP, has decided to refer the sentence of Stuart Hall to the Court of Appeal for review.
"The case will in due course be heard by three Court of Appeal judges who will decide whether or not the sentence is unduly lenient and whether they should increase the sentence."
The length of the jail term was immediately criticised as "unduly lenient" by shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry, who urged Mr Grieve to look at the matter.
Hall was given an OBE in 2012 "A sentence of 15 months does not appear to reflect the gravity of his crimes, which included a sexual assault on a girl as young as nine," she said after the review was announced.
"Fifteen months is substantially less than the maximum sentence that was available to the judge and it is right that it is being looked at again.
"We need to be confident that the criminal justice system takes child abuse seriously.
"Only that way will victims feel confident that they can come forward."
Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour party, also added to calls for the sentence to be referred.
The Court of Appeal usually lists cases referred for being unduly lenient in about five to seven weeks.
Harrowing details of the sex abuse suffered by Hall's victims were described during his trial at Preston Crown Court.
The prosecution told how a 13-year-old victim was assaulted after they had played tennis, when he is said to have told her: "Sometimes thank you was not enough in words."
He told a 10-year-old girl to cuddle him "like she would one of her teddies" after he had given her steak and champagne, the court heard.
He preyed on a nine-year-old girl while she was in bed.
Another victim, who was 17 at the time, was attacked while dressed as a cheerleader for the filming of It's A Knockout.
Hall initially told police his victims were lying as part of a "vendetta" against people in the public eye.
When arrested last December over three claims of indecent assault, he described the allegations as "nonsense".
He told an officer one of the complainants was "a complete and utter liar".
Hall, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, went on to issue an impassioned on-camera denial of any wrongdoing, describing the allegations against him as "cruel".
More women came forward as a result of publicity and Hall later admitted 14 indecent assaults on 13 girls between 1967 and 1987.
Hall was a familiar face and voice in British broadcasting for half a century. Last year he was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours for his services to television and charity.
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