Documentary details Savile claims

Thu, Oct 4, 2012, 01:00

   

“It was a complete shock to me,” she said.

“I had no idea what was happening. I was very young and naive. I just feel that he took huge advantage of me.”

The woman, who also kept her identity private, said she went on to have sex with Savile in his dressing room at BBC television centre on a number of occasions.

Two women who attended Duncroft Approved School for Girls, a now-closed children’s home in Surrey, said they were also targeted by Sir Jimmy when he regularly visited the school in the 1970s.

One, named only as Charlotte, said she met the star in 1974 when she was just 14 and claimed that he put his hand up her jumper and touched her breast as she sat on his lap in a caravan parked in the grounds of the school.

Another alleged victim, named Fiona, also revealed she was invited for rides in Savile’s Rolls Royce where she said she was assaulted and forced to carry out various sex acts on the star.

Fiona added she was later invited to the BBC television centre to watch Savile's Clunk-Click show and was subjected to further abuse there.

The revelations came after former Duncroft pupil Karin Ward, another alleged victim who waived her right to anonymity, claimed the star would ply girls with gifts and have sex with pupils as young as 14.

Coleen Nolan also revealed that Savile suggested she join him at a hotel following a TV recording when she was just 14.

She had been in the Top Of The Pops studio, along with her chart star sisters who were appearing on the show.

Meanwhile, a circular gold plaque displayed in Scarborough as a memorial to Savile, who had a home in the town, was subject to a graffiti attack with the words “rapist” and “paedophile”.

Authorities in North Yorkshire say they are now reviewing security at the cemetery where his headstone was placed, following his death at the age of 84 last year. A statue of the star has also been taken down in Glasgow.

The BBC said it will assist police with investigations into the child abuse claims surrounding the presenter.

A spokesman said: “We have asked the BBC investigations unit to make direct contact with all the police forces in receipt of allegations and offer to help them investigate these matters and provide full support to any lines of inquiry they wish to pursue.”

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