Jimmy Savile accused in ITV documentary

Sabot wrote:
Sadly, I have some knowledge of young lads who have been known to take advantage of this sort of situation. It is a difficult subject because one is not supposed to understand both sides of these sordid practices. But believe me not all of them are young innocents.
I rarely talk about it because my opinion on the subject is often not appreciated.

Lamplighter wrote:

Sabot wrote:
Sadly, I have some knowledge of young lads who have been known to take advantage of this sort of situation. It is a difficult subject because one is not supposed to understand both sides of these sordid practices. But believe me not all of them are young innocents.
I rarely talk about it because my opinion on the subject is often not appreciated.

Oh, yes, kids can, and do, take advantage of times like those described by this man; girls also will 'oblige' older men as they see lots of goodies coming their way. I suppose it's' inevitable especially if you come from a poor or not very well off family and there's this adult offering all kinds of 'nice things' if you will oblige by just .... Sad, but true. LL

Leeds City Council preparing to strip Jimmy Savile of honour
By David Marsh, published on Friday 9 November 2012 09:40

Councillors are next week expected to agree that Jimmy Savile be stripped of the Leeds Award he was given by the city council in 2008.

A meeting of the full council will also scrap plans for a statue or some other form of memorial to the late television star following allegations that he sexually abused young girls.

Savile was never made an Honorary Freeman of Leeds, the highest honour the council can bestow, but on July 2, 2008, councillors granted him the Leeds Award, given to people who have made an outstanding contribution to the city.

Savile was recognised for his charity work. His name has already been removed from a list of Leeds Award recipients on a wall in the Civic Hall.

The council will next Wednesday vote on a recommendation that says: “That council agree, in light of the seriousness of current allegations against Jimmy Savile, to the rescinding of the Leeds Award and any previous recommendations of council that proposed further recognition or commemoration of him.”

Keith Wakefield, council leader, said: “This is the appropriate way to deal with this issue. We gave him the Leeds Award publicly and it is right that we debate the proposal to remove it publicly. The Civic Hall belongs to the people of Leeds and they would expect us to consider this and let them know of our intentions.”

George Entwistle acknowleged BBC had not 'got anything right' since the Savile scandal began
By LIZ THOMAS
PUBLISHED: 18:09 GMT, 9 November 2012 | UPDATED: 19:06 GMT, 9 November 2012

BBC director general George Entwistle has admitted the BBC has failed to get things right since the Savile crisis began.

The executive confessed he realised it would take time to “regain the trust of the audience”.

A recent poll by the corporation found public trust in it had plunged because of the revelations about Savile and its subsequent handling of them.

In 2009, 62 per cent of licence fee payers said the BBC was ‘trustworthy’ but this figure has now plunged to 47 per cent.

Speaking at an international conference for public broadcasters he admitted that he was 'determined' to restore the sense of pride in the BBC that viewers had during the London 2012 Olympics.

He said: ‘It’s difficult to overestimate what a traumatic time the last few weeks have been for some people in the UK. And the BBC has been at the heart of the story. Jimmy Savile was a BBC entertainer. It’s become apparent that some of the assaults he carried out were on BBC premises. To BBC employees today, the idea that such things could happen is almost beyond comprehension.

‘But although many of Savile’s crimes were committed decades ago, we are inheritors of the BBC’s past. And I should be the first to admit that we haven’t got everything right since this crisis started.

‘There are no short cuts: we have to acknowledge responsibility; apologise to victims; commit ourselves to finding out what happened; and cooperate as closely as possible with the police.’

The BBC has set up three independent reviews in the wake of the paedophilia revelations, one to establish why a Newsnight investigation into the scandal was shelved, another to look back at the culture and practices during Savile’s time at the BBC, and a third looking at processes for reporting sexual harassment.

Entwistle said the corporation had previously lost viewer trust with previous controversies such as the misleading trailer for a documentary featuring the Queen, and irregularities over BBC-run phone-in competitions, but had managed to regain it.

Entwistle apologised again to the victims of Jimmy Savile's abuse. He admitted that since the start of the scandal, the corporation hadn't 'got anything right'

He explained: ‘During editorial troubles in the last decade – there was a marked falling off in trust from our audiences. Because they set the highest standards for us, they rightly feel more keenly disappointed when we fail to measure up.

‘Yet, even when the public felt most let down, they still believed that the BBC could be trusted to put things right itself. And we did. The rigour and honesty with which the BBC handled past crises renewed our audiences’ confidence in us. My determination is that we accomplish this again.’

Entwistle re-iterated his public apology to the victims of Savile’s abuse and said the broadcaster was working with children’s charities to provide the best possible support for those affected.

His speech comes after Entwistle faces accusations it took him, or his office, three weeks to contact police about a letter he received containing allegations Jimmy Savile abused children on BBC premises.

A letter was sent from ITV on September 7 containing details of allegations it would be making on its Exposure programme, which first revealed the extent of Savile’s abuse.

But the BBC did not contact police or begin its own investigation until early October, when details of the content of the ITV programme were made public.

The conclusions of the Pollard Review, looking into the axed Newsnight investigation, are expected to be delivered by the end of the month.

bb1 wrote:Mark Williams-Thomas ‏@mwilliamsthomas
I can confirm that my next programme a 1 hr special about #JimmySavile will be shown on ITV1 at 22.35pm on Wednesday 21st November

Can't wait.

bbc.co.uk
Man arrested over Jimmy Savile abuse claims

A man has been arrested in connection with the investigation into abuse claims made against Jimmy Savile.

Officers working on Operation Yewtree arrested a man in his 70s from Cambridgeshire at 07:15 GMT.

A police spokesman said the man had been arrested on suspicion of sexual offences, and had been taken into police custody locally.

He added the man was held as part of the criminal investigation into claims Savile sexually abused young people.

Police believe the former BBC TV presenter and DJ, who died last year aged 84, could have abused as many as 300 people over a 40-year period.

A number of individuals are being investigated as part of the operation. These include people who allegedly carried out abuse with Savile as well as others who are suspected of abusing independently of Savile.

bb1 wrote:What on earth?

http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/09/03/2006/305590/Customer-or-thief.htm

The conman's story
I am going straight now, says Wilfred De'Ath, but I have a sweet nostalgia for the many years when I lived in the grand hotels of England and France without ever paying a bill.

Surely there can't be two of them, with a name like that?

The Memory Game
Street Of Shame, Issue 1325

JUST how reliable are the testimonies of former BBC staffers who have come forward with tales of long-covered-up Savile scandals?

Wilfred De’ath, a convicted fraudster long known in Fleet Street for the unreliability of his tip-offs, informed the makers of ITV’s Exposure that he had witnessed Savile with a girl of “I would guess she was 12 if you asked me to guess, she could have been 13 or 14… I’ve absolutely no doubt in my mind that she was between 12 and 14, I’d have gone for the lower end of that.”

In an interview for ITV News once the scandal was up and running, however, De’ath announced that the girl in question was “at the most 12 or probably 10”.

And what of “top TV director” David Nicolson, who informed the Sun that he had discovered Savile having sex in a BBC dressing room with a fan aged “16, maybe 15… She had long brown hair and looked very, very young”, only to meet with indifference when he tried to report the incident to his bosses?

Nicolson was never a director – he was a production manager, a crucial role but one considerably lower down the BBC hierarchy. While this may have been the Sun over-egging his position rather than Nicolson himself, it is also worth noting the circumstances under which he departed the BBC’s employ. Nicolson was the production manager on Noel Edmonds’ Late Late Breakfast Show, leaving his job shortly after he faced an extensive grilling about his professionalism at the inquest into the death of Michael Lush, a member of the public who was killed attempting a dangerous stunt for the programme in 1986. Former colleagues suspect that Nicolson still feels he was sacrificed to save Edmonds and producer Michael Hurll, and that his outburst last week was a belated revenge. If he had that much of a problem with the presenter, they ask, why did he attend Savile’s funeral in Leeds last year?

“AT THE time we obviously had our suspicions but there just wasn’t any evidence. But we now know for a fact that at least four, perhaps five people have come forward to say they were assaulted by this man at Haut de la Garenne… I have to believe the evidence that has come forward now,” announced former Jersey police chief Lenny Harper in remarks which were seized on in the media maelstrom of untested claims around Savile.

Lest we forget, Harper also firmly believed – and was very keen to tell the media – that his investigators had discovered the remains of several dead children in the cellar of the notorious children’s home where he was investigating abuse claims in 2008. When what he had claimed to be a fragment of human skull turned out to be a coconut shell, and a subsequent inquiry team concluded that there was no evidence of any murders at the home, Harper was excoriated by the very papers that are now keenest to amplify his new claims.

bb1 wrote:He hasn't been arrested for making false allegations, surely? Because that really would mark the beginning of the end of this.

I have no idea, I feel as if we have fallen down some bizarre rabbit hole.