The Quiet One was due to have European premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest in June

Organisers got complaints that it was giving platform to alleged sexual predator

Former Rolling Stone met Mandy Smith in 1984 when she was 13 and he was 47

A film about Bill Wyman has been banned from a leading documentary festival after protests about the ‘grooming’ of his second wife.

The Quiet One was due to have its European premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest in June.

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But organisers received dozens of complaints saying it was giving a platform to an alleged sexual predator.

Bill Wyman and his fiancee Mandy Smith in London on May 9, 1989

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The former Rolling Stone met Mandy Smith in 1984 when she was 13 and he was 47. She later claimed they first had sex when she was 14.

They married in 1989 after she turned 18 and he was 52. They separated in 1991 and subsequently divorced.

Wyman, 82, had been booked in for a Q&A with director Oliver Murray. One critic said the decision to hold the premiere was ‘disgusting, embarrassing, disappointing’, while another said ‘you may want to look at the appropriateness of this line-up.’

Katherine Noelle Wyman, Bill Wyman and Suzanne Accosta at the 'Sumo' Book Launch in Claridge's this year

Wyman left the Stones in 1993 and went on to marry actress Suzanne Accosta with whom he had two children.

But concerns about his relationship with Mandy Smith have dogged his later career.

In 2013, Wyman revealed he had approached police and prosecutors to ask if they wanted to interview him, only to be told they were not interested. He said: ‘We all have a skeleton in the cupboard..

‘In my case it was publicised to the world and that wasn’t really fair, I don’t think.’

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Sheffield Doc/Fest declined to comment.