Jimmy Savile: Number of Victims Reach 300, Police Say
Jimmy Savile: Number of Victims Reach 300, Police Say
The number of possible sexual abuse victims of Jimmy Savile has risen to 300, Scotland Yard has confirmed.
It is thought the TV presenter and DJ, who died last year aged 84, may have abused scores of young girls and some boys over a 40-year period.
Police have so far spoken to 130 victims and officers have recorded 114 allegations.
Savile’s great-niece Caroline Robinson has accused him of sexually abusing her when she was 12.
Met Police Commander Peter Spindler described the police inquiry as a “watershed” moment in the investigation of child abuse. He praised the media for exposing Savile “for what he was.”
He said Savile was “undoubtedly” one of the most prolific sex offenders of recent history, and the weight of evidence from victims against the late DJ was overwhelming.
Complaints about him were ignored or hushed up while he was alive due to his celebrity status and his “charity” work. (After all anyone who does that much work for charidee must be a good guy right?) Other reports are now indicating that Saville was also a necrophiliac, in addition to being a serial child molester:
He said other British media was equally to blame and claimed a reporter was heard talking at a wedding 10 years ago about Savile being a necrophiliac.
He said: ‘The expression I came to associate with Savile’s sexual partners was either one used by production assistants or one I made up to summarise their reports … ‘under-age subnormals’.
‘He targeted the institutionalised, the hospitalised - and this was known. Why did Jimmy go to hospitals? That’s where the patients were.’
Reports of his abuse were not taken seriously and Saville was never properly investigated. On the contrary, he was given an OBE and then a knighthood.
He said the entire society was taken in by Savile - ‘including the Prime Minister who invited him to Chequers; including the royal family, photographed with him, he got a knighthood in this country, he got a papal knighthood.
‘This is not just the BBC this is history, this is a man who conned an entire society,’ Gambaccini added.
