Jimmy Savile accused in ITV documentary

lily wrote:Sabot, the money grabbers know that it's their word against a dead man's.

Sabot wrote:
There is a picture in The Mail of a girl apparently being groped Live on TV, but since she is laughing and grinning throughout, the article hasn't gone down all that well, according to Comments.

Express, Sunday 28th October 2012

SAVILE: DID HE ADMIT MURDER?

Shamed Jimmy Savile is now officially one of Britain's worst ever sex offenders

By Ben Borland

PAEDOPHILE Jimmy Savile "confessed" to murder on national television, sparking new fears that the monster's reign of terror may have been worse than ever imagined.
He was speaking in 2002 after the infamous Louis Theroux documentary, in which the shamed pervert was secretly filmed boasting about his brutal criminal past as a nightclub proprieter in Leeds.

Brandishing one of his trademark cigars, he hisses: "I mean, he was having a go to try and get a bit of salacious TV so of course I suddenly drop into Godfather mode.

"If he wants to die, he can die. He won't be the first that I've put away."

At the time, Theroux laughed off the apparent threat and said he took Savile's menacing words "with a grain of salt".

However, detectives were yesterday urged to "keep an open mind" about whether the now-notorious presenter may have been telling the truth.

Shamed Savile is now officially one of Britain's worst ever sex offenders, with police dealing with up to 300 victims and more expected to emerge.

It has also emerged that he boasted of his links to organised crime and the IRA, had a bizarre relationship with serial killer Peter Sutcliffe and a macabre fascination with dead bodies.

Yesterday, one of Britain's leading criminologists urged police to consider investigating Savile as a suspect in historic 'cold case' murders and missing persons investigations.

Forensic psychologist Dr Ian Stephen said: "Paedophiles are a totally different type of criminal altogether from people who have killed women in a prolific manner. It would be very unusual to find somebody of that type, but having said that he had the money and he had the power.

"In a sense what he was saying [in the documentary] was I'm telling you this but you don't know, that's the way he lived his life. He was the nice guy who did all sorts of things for charity, that's the man you see but there's a side to me that you don't see.

"Its like Peter Tobin, he won't tell anybody what he's done, it is all a big game for him. Tobin is in a different league to Savile, but he played games as well. All the things he did were games, his TV programmes, his charities, being around people in hospitals - they were all games.

"He was saying, 'I'm the great Jimmy Savile' and at the same time he's going around groping young people. It is possible that he upped the game, that he needed to get that buzz from getting away with it, and the question is does he increase it? There is always that risk with people who are sensation seekers, they sometimes get bored and raise it and the possibilities are there."

Dr Stephen also said the Metropolitan Police and other forces should "keep an open mind" with regards to Savile and any open murder cases.

He said: "They could be looking at places he was, places where people disappeared, that is how they have done it with other people.

"I don't know if they can get anything from that but if some of his victims start talking about attempts to kill them, or instances where the abuse turned physical as opposed to sexual, they might start looking around other possibilities."

Yesterday, it emerged that Savile had assaulted one of his victims live on air during a crowded scene on Top of the Pops.

Dr Stephen, who has worked on a number of serial killer cases and advised the makers of TV's Cracker, said he probably got a thrill from committing crimes - or admitting them - in front of the nation.

He said: "Savile was very much a teaser, he liked to titillate people to get attention, it gave him a feeling of power to raise questions without people actually knowing the truth.

"He liked to have the knowledge that he was Jimmy Savile and he was untouchable. He had this image that he was a good person and it must have been hard to keep up, almost too hard."

Savile was one of several celebrities who had featured on Theroux's documentaries who were interviewed for Living With Louis, which was broadcast on the BBC in 2002.

THE DISGUSTED CAPTAIN WHO THREW JIMMY SAVILE OFF A CRUISE SHIP

A former newspaper editor reveals the disturbing truth

Thursday October 4,2012
By Brian Hitchen

THE only thing that puzzled me about Sir Jimmy Savile's death was that it took so long for his sexual victims to come out of the woodwork. It's because I have known he abused under-age girls for more than 45 years.

That was when I was told that the captain of the liner Canberra chucked Savile off his ship in Gibraltar after complaints from the parents of a 14-year-old girl.

Two passengers aboard the flagship of the P&O fleet told one of the ship's officers they were concerned about Savile and their daughter.

After listening to the distraught couple, the captain summoned the DJ to his day room.

The latter denied the allegations. "But the more I quizzed him," said the captain, "the more convinced I became that he was lying. He was a shifty sort of chap whose eyes darted all over the place.

J"The parents, who were not travelling first class, were very decent, ordinary people who were scandalised by Savile's unwanted attention to their daughter.

"I told him he disgusted me and I wanted him off my ship when we reached Gibraltar. I detailed an officer to make sure he remained in his cabin until we reached the Rock.

He was to take all his meals in his cabin and was not allowed to leave it under any circumstances short of shipwreck."

I met Jimmy Savile many times. When I retired from journalism I was invited by Cunard to lecture aboard its liners. Savile was a regular feature on those ships too.

He always travelled first class and for free. He boasted that he was so famous the QE2 couldn't sail without him.

Unlike other first-class passengers he refused to dress for dinner. Instead he wore his multi-coloured polyester shellsuits.

Each evening after dinner he dragged a big red armchair, like a throne, into the carpeted corridor outside the casino where he sat smoking one of his eight-inch Havana cigars.

After he was knighted he always wore his beautifully enamelled Order of Knighthood on a ribbon around his neck. As he smiled at passing passengers he clutched a box of Havanas.

But there was only ever one cigar in it. "These cost a lot of money. I don't give 'em away," he told me.

ONE morning in the West Indies after one of my talks Savile approached me on deck where I'd seen him leering at girls and young women in the hot tub.

Despite the heat he was wearing a bright red shellsuit unzipped to the waist and silver trainers that glittered when he walked. He looked like a prize on the bottom shelf of a fairground coconut shy.

"I listened to your lecture… it was pretty good. But you need to give yourself a front. Make yourself more interesting. Like what I do," he told me. Knowing what I did, I was highly tempted to tell him where to go.

So why in all the years that have passed since I was first told did I never write about Savile? Two reasons. In those days newspapers did not write "nasty" stories about celebrities unless the famous had been handsomely paid for their often fairly tame revelations.

The second reason is because Britain's libel laws too often help make those like Savile untouchable.

The public knew him as a selfless man who raised millions of pounds for Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire. Perhaps they should have wondered why he waited so long for a knighthood.

The answer was simple - the Establishment always suspected that he had skeletons in his cupboard.

Soft-hearted Princess Diana was taken in by him. He used to phone her at Kensington Palace and tell her she was his "favourite Princess".

On one bizarre occasion he nearly got himself killed by a foreign leader's bodyguards in the ballroom of London's Savoy Hotel. He had been invited there to a newspaper's annual awards ceremony for bravery.

Margaret Thatcher, then prime minister, presented the awards and Savile had been placed on her table.

Across from him was seated Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the leader of South Africa's Zulus.

Chief Buthelezi was dressed in his usual Savile Row suit and Yves Saint Laurent glasses. If he wondered about the identity of his strange neighbour in a salmonpink shellsuit he didn't remark on him.

While Chief Buthelezi was speaking to the prime minister Savile stood up and pretended to lunge with a butter knife at him. Instantly, two blue-blazered bodyguards leapt to their feet and went for Savile.

Only Buthelezi's silently but swiftly raised right hand stopped them in mid-flight. I had no doubt that but for his signal they would have broken Savile's neck.

Jimmy Savile was not a nice man. I feel desperately sorry for his victims and for his adoring public who even now will not want to believe the bad stories about their hero.

So why in all the years that have passed since I was first told did I never write about Savile? Two reasons. In those days newspapers did not write "nasty" stories about celebrities unless the famous had been handsomely paid for their often fairly tame revelations.

The second reason is because Britain's libel laws too often help make those like Savile untouchable.

Mirror: By Ben Griffiths 28 Oct 2012

I aborted Savile's baby during 17-year relationship with shamed star

Donna Foot had a secret termination in 1999 and says 'I’m glad I didn’t bring one of his children into the world'


Ex-girlfriend: Donna Foot

A woman who had a 17-year ­relationship with Jimmy Savile has revealed she aborted the shamed TV star’s baby.

Former singer Donna Foot says she ­conducted a secretive fling that spanned two decades with the paedophile after he wooed her outside BBC television studios.

And Donna, 50, who had no idea of the Jim’ll Fix It host’s sick lust, gained a ­harrowing insight into his warped world.

Savile told her that he would never marry or have children because “the best thing about other people’s children is that you can give them back”.

Their relationship – carried out during the height of his secret child abuse – ended just months after Donna aborted Savile’s lovechild without her telling him she was pregnant.

Now the mum of two has revealed she feels physically sick to think that she almost gave birth to the star’s lovechild.

It comes just days after it emerged the toll of Savile’s suspected victims has hit 300 and could eventually top 500.

In an exclusive interview with the Sunday People, Donna said: “I’m absolutely disgusted by the way Jimmy has conned the entire nation into believing he was a nice person because he conned me too.

“I trusted him and was very close to keeping his child but I knew how much he didn’t want children.

“In all our years together I never had an idea of what he was up to.

“I’m so glad I didn’t bring one of his children into the world because they would have to be dealing with all his shame now.”



Trusting: Donna with Savile in the early 1980s

Revelations about Savile’s child-sex abuse over six ­decades have stunned the nation a year after he died aged 84.

Donna was just 20 when she first met the star outside London BBC television centre in 1982, where she was waiting for Cliff Richard to sign autographs.

She immediately recognised Savile as he confidently strolled up to her.

Donna, from Leatherhead, Surrey, said: “He started saying to me, ‘Blondie, blondie, give me your hand’.

“I said that I was waiting to see Cliff Richard and he said, ‘If you are here when I come out I will get you a poster’.

“He then went into the BBC and when he came out he said to me, ‘I’m going up to my apartment’ and asked me to go. I couldn’t believe it was true. I was completely starstruck.

Savile took Donna, who used to sing in pubs in Surrey, to one of his eight flats around the UK in nearby Regent’s Park.

When they got there the DJ handed her a poster and began to ask about her singing.

She said: “He made me feel like a princess. He was asking about my singing and was ­saying he could help make it. He was telling me about all the people he had set on the road to stardom like Cilla Black and Tom Jones.

“He then gave me his number and told me to call him. I completely fell for his charms.” The pair arranged regular meetings on Wednesdays at his flat and it was on the third encounter that they first had sex.

Donna said: “I went round and he said, ‘Let’s have a cup of tea’. We were talking and the next thing I knew, he was touching my leg.

“We went into his bedroom and we just hit it off.

“He had a wardrobe where he showed me his colourful jackets but it also had a bed that came down. We often used that.

“He would get me on the bed and look me in the eye – eye contact was the first thing.

“It was the start of a long sexual ­relationship that lasted for years.”



Memories: A signed card from Savile

Donna was unaware police had launched an investigation into Savile indecently ­assaulting a girl in his caravan at the BBC.

Donna said the star gave her the nickname Dodo because he thought she was a “bird of rare distinction”. But he banned her from ­telling anyone about their affair and was a different person when his TV and radio chums were around, claiming Donna and he were “just pals”.

She said: “He always insisted on meeting at the flat and there he was so loving to me.

“He used to tell me I should leave home and get a life singing on cruise ships. He would talk to me about his jobs. I even got used to the foul smell of his cigars.

“I loved being around him. He never once mentioned the terror he was causing to children.

“But he was completely ­different when we went out. I remember going to the Radio Luxemburg Awards with him and he told all his workmates that I was just a pal. He also kept me away from his famous friends. It hurt me as I saw him as my on-off boyfriend while he was just using me for sex.”

Despite Savile going away for months at a time, Donna was always let back into his world when he returned to London. And she learned secrets that most people only heard about after he died. Donna said: “Around about 1990 we became really close. That year he told me a lot of intimate information.

“I once joked I wanted to marry him and he got very defensive and said he would never marry. I told him I would quite like children but he said he ­never wanted to have them.

“He used to say, ‘The best thing about other people’s children is that you can give them back’. I ­never knew how awful that would sound until now.”

In another strange ­admission, Savile confided that he wanted to die on the same day as his mum who he called “the Duchess”. She said: “He was so in love with her he thought there was no point going on without her.”

In the summer of 1999 Donna was rocked by the discovery she was pregnant. She worked out the dates and confirmed the baby was Savile’s. But after a long chat with her mum – and remembering Savile’s insistence that he did not want children – she went to Redhill ­hospital, Surrey, for an abortion.

She said: “I just couldn’t bring myself to tell Jimmy because I knew he wouldn’t be happy. I knew we took risks when having sex but I never expected to get pregnant

“It was a huge decision for me but I went to the hospital in secret and had the abortion. I was so upset.”

A few months later, Savile ended their relationship. He stopped answering her calls and told her he was constantly busy.

Donna said: “I was heartbroken. I never thought he would just cut me out.”

Now Donna, who has been married to husband Nigel, 53, for nine years, is struggling to come to terms with the widescale sexual abuse Savile inflicted.

She said: “I really had absolutely no idea about it. It makes me feel physically sick to think about it.

“I wish what he did had come out when he was alive. I keep thinking that maybe there is something I could have done but I just know I was fooled like everyone else.

“I really wish now I had never met him.”

By Ben Rankin 28 Oct 2012 08:36
Gary Glitter: Former pop star arrested by police probing Jimmy Savile sex abuse claims

Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was taken from his home in London by police for questioning.


Arrested: Gary Glitter

Gary Glitter has been arrested on suspicion of sex offences by police probing the Jimmy Savile sex abuse claims.

Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was taken from his home in London at 7.15am by police for questioning.

A Metropolitan Police statement says: "Officers working on Operation Yewtree have today, 28 October, arrested a man in his 60s in connection with the investigation.

"The man, from London, was arrested at approximately 7.15am on suspicion of sexual offences, and has been taken into custody at a London police station.

"The individual falls under the strand of the investigation we have termed 'Savile and others'."

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Erm, Prince Phillip?