Jimmy Savile accused in ITV documentary

bb1 wrote:Yes, that was pretty condescending, especially as we have been following this from the start.

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By Tom Pettifor
New sex abuse bombshell: Jimmy Savile police to arrest TV stars 'within days'

26 Oct 2012 00:00
The celebrities named by victims – some huge household names – are set to be quizzed over serious sex assault allegations within days

Child and sex abuse claims against a dozen TV stars were yesterday described as a “landmark” inquiry by police probing Jimmy Savile.

As detectives were set to start making arrests, Commander Peter Spindler revealed 300 victims have contacted his team since an ITV show exposed Savile as a sex predator three weeks ago.

Around 130 of these have been spoken to so far and 114 assault claims made.

Mr Spindler said: “I have no doubt that we are in watershed moment for child abuse investigation and this will be a landmark investigation.

“I want to praise the courage of the 300 or so who have come forward.”

The celebrities named by victims – some huge household names – are set to be quizzed over serious sex assault allegations within days.

Other suspects who have been named are believed to include former BBC staff.

While the majority of calls fielded by police are about Savile, some relate to individuals who are believed to have been complicit in the TV star’s abuse, or carried out abuse themselves.

But Mr Spindler declined to say where these people worked or if they had links to the NHS, BBC or other institutions with which Savile was involved.

Revealing an “arrest strategy” had been drawn up by his 30-strong team of officers, he said: “There is Savile but there are also others and if those others are living we can now look at them.

"We are dealing with a major crime investigation here.

Twisted: Savile escaped justice while he was alive
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“There’s Savile on his own, and that’s the vast majority of what we’re being told about, there’s Savile and others.

"And it’s the others, if they’re living, we can look at them. Then there is a third category which is ‘others’.”

A source added: “It is now to be determined how seriously these claims should be taken.”

It yesterday emerged Savile was once investigated for a sex attack on BBC premises as far back as the 80s.

A retired police officer has come forward to reveal that he carried out an inquiry after an assault in the star’s caravan in the car park at TV Centre in West London – but there was not enough evidence to prosecute.

The woman reported the attack at Hammersmith police station. It is not clear if the BBC was made aware of it.

It is also not known if Savile was ever questioned over the allegation.

Mr Spindler said that officers were trying to find the file on the case but had so far been unsuccessful.

Questions were being asked last night about the extent that authorities failed to link a series of complaints which could have stopped Savile carrying out further assaults on young girls.

At least seven women reported attacks by the presenter before his death last year.

Mr Spindler said another woman came forward to the Met in 2003 to report that Savile had touched her ­inappropriately in the 70s.

She did not want to press charges but wanted police to know in case it fitted in with any other pattern, he said.

It is not clear why these allegations were not flagged up to Surrey police when they informed all forces they were investigating Savile in 2007 over four new sex allegations.

Detectives from over five forces were aware of claims before 2011 – including two attacks on girls at a school and one at Stoke Mandeville hospital – but they did not result in an arrest.

Sally Freeman, a spokeswoman for Women Against Rape, said: “It’s appalling that he was never even arrested despite all these separate allegations.”

Scotland Yard is following more than 400 lines of inquiry linked to the victims, of whom all except two are women.

Mr Spindler said he was aware of a “key individuals” who have not yet spoken to the police, adding: “If there’s anybody out there who is still sitting waiting, wondering whether to speak out we want to assure them they are no longer a part of what one of the victims’ groups called the ‘unbelievables’.”

Officers are trying to contact victims as quickly as possible – but for some it is the first time they have come forward.

The NSPCC has had 439 calls about sexual abuse in the past three weeks, a 60% rise on what they would normally receive. Two out of five have been referred to social services and police.

Mr Spindler said Savile was “undoubtedly” one of the most prolific sex offenders of recent history and believes the weight of evidence against the late DJ was overwhelming.

He said: “We have to believe what they are saying because they are all saying the same thing independently.”

He added Savile had been protected because “children or young people had not felt empowered to speak out”.

Earlier Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, said the “tsunami of filth” that has emerged over Savile’s child abuse had caused terrible damage to the BBC.

He said the governing body’s priority was to “get to the bottom of what’s happened” for the sake of victims.

He said: “Our main concern has to be for the victims of abuse and worse who have been marooned for years, trying to tell their stories and not being believed, including, it seems, by the BBC, and to deal with the terrible damage to the BBC.”

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Jimmy Savile paid me £3 for sex when I was 15, claims Miss Whiplash

26 Oct 2012 00:00
Lindi St Clair said the star had sex with her and a 13-year-old friend when they were runaways


Claims: Miss Whiplash Lindi St Clair

Former prostitute Lindi St Clair yesterday claimed she had sex with Jimmy Savile when she was just 15 – and he paid her £3.

Lindi, who went on to be known as dominatrix Miss Whiplash, said the star had sex with her and a 13-year-old friend when they were runaways.

The 60-year-old said: “When we left, he asked us to return with our friends but we stayed away.”

She added: “I recognised him from TV but did not want to ask about his ­identity as I might have lost the trade.”

She said Savile took them to his “messy” bedsit near Carnaby Street in London’s West End in 1968.

Savile: Celebs 'Frightened By Police Probe'
Sky News – 3 hours ago

Dozens of big name stars from the 1960s and 70s have contacted Max Clifford "frightened to death" they will become implicated in the widening Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal, the PR guru has claimed.

He said the stars, some of whom are still big names today, were worried because at their peak they had lived a hedonistic lifestyle where young girls threw themselves at them but they "never asked for anybody's birth certificate".

Scotland Yard is leading the current investigation into accusations of abuse by former BBC DJ and presenter Savile, which now involve around 300 potential victims.
Officers have searched a cottage belonging to Savile in Allt na Reigh in Glencoe, Scotland, to look for "any evidence of any others being involved in any offending with him".

Speaking on London's LBC radio, Mr Clifford said young pop stars at the time had gone from working in a factory one week to performing in front of thousands of people "and girls are screaming and throwing themselves at them then".

"All kinds of things went on and I do mean young girls throwing themselves at them in their dressing rooms at concert halls, at gigs, whatever," he said. "They never asked for anybody's birth certificate and they were young lads ... suddenly everyone's dream was a reality."

He added: "We are talking about a lot of people that were huge names in the 60s and 70s and a lot of them barely remember what they did last week, genuinely. For them to try and recount what happened in a dressing room in 1965 or 1968 or 1972, genuinely they are frightened to death."

Mr Clifford said that he did not condone the men's behaviour, but that it could be understood, adding: "No one had heard the word paedophile in those days, the 60s and 70s."

Seven alleged victims of Savile made complaints to four separate police forces, Surrey, London, Sussex and Jersey, while the disgraced television presenter was alive but it was decided that no further action should be taken.

Scotland Yard revealed on Friday that a retired officer had told them that he had investigated Savile in the 1980s while based in west London but did not have the evidence to proceed.

Commander Peter Spindler said he believed the allegation was of an indecent assault, possibly in a caravan on BBC premises in west London, but officers have still not found the original file.

Another allegation, of inappropriate touching dating back to the 1970s, was made by a woman in 2003, but this was treated as "intelligence" by police because the victim did not want to take action.

Surrey Police submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service containing references to four potential offences, including an allegation of indecent assault on a young girl at a children's home.

The allegations related to three potential victims in Surrey and another in Sussex, and Savile was interviewed under caution in 2009, but prosecutors decided there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.

The seventh allegation emerged in 2008 when Jersey police received a claim that an indecent assault occurred at children's home Haut de la Garenne in the 1970s. Again it was decided that there was insufficient evidence to proceed.

Mr Spindler said Savile was "undoubtedly" one of the most prolific sex offenders he had come across and that Operation Yewtree, looking into Savile's crimes, would be a "watershed moment" for child abuse investigations.

Claims have been made that former DJ Savile, who died last year aged 84, targeted children while they were in hospital. He had a bedroom at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, an office and living quarters at Broadmoor and widespread access to Leeds General Infirmary.

"All children should be eaten at birth": Jimmy Savile denied sex abuse in 2006 interview

27 Oct 2012 00:00
In the rare interview for UTV in Northern Ireland , Savile said he “never loved” the children on his show Jim’ll Fix It


Interview: DJ Jimmy Savile talking to Gerry Kelly at Mr Savile's house in Leeds
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Television bosses have uncovered a six-year-old interview with Jimmy Savile in which he said: “I think all children should be eaten at birth.”

He made the remark as he was just about to turn 80 in 2006 and was asked whether he would have liked to have become a father.

In the rare interview for UTV, the Northern Ireland ITV franchise, Savile, who died last year, said he “never loved” the children on his show Jim’ll Fix It.

He was also questioned about rumours of him having under-age sex and replied: “Any tabloid journalist will tell you two things.

"One: I’m very boring.

"Two: I don’t do drugs, I don’t do under-age sex or any of them things that you read in the papers today.

“But they still like coming round to talk to me cause they know that I’ll give them an angle they’ve maybe never had before.”

He added: “I don’t have an Internet, I don’t have a computer, I don’t know what an email is. I don’t know anything about that world…

"I will read a paper, if they are free on a train, so I know what's happening.

"Like everybody else all I need to do is spend two minutes on any one subject to be an expert on that particular subject, so it doesn't bother me and all these odd things you are talking about.

"Definitely what you see is what you get. And no matter what anyone thinks of you is entirely up to them.

"And if they think highly of you so be it, that's all right. If they don't think kindly of you that all right as well."

“All these odd things that you’re talking about [the rumours]... Hey, all you can expect from a pig is a grunt.

"That’s it. Doesn’t bother me in the slightest.”

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