'P*** off, I'm waiting for midnight when she turns 16': What Savile told policeman who found him with a young girl in his parked-up Rolls-Royce

Disgraced Jimmy Savile posing with his Rolls-Royce car in 1964. Mr Leonard revealed
today that he discovered the star in his car with a young girl in Leeds in 1965

A former policeman revealed today that shamed DJ Jimmy Savile was notorious among officers - but no one dared challenge him because he was so well connected.

Paul Leonard, 68, said he once approached the celebrity's Rolls-Royce at 11.45pm when it was stopped in a lay-by in Leeds and caught him with a young girl.

But Savile made it clear to the officer that he was to be left alone with the teenager.

'I'm waiting for midnight when she turns 16... so p*** off if you want to keep your job,' Savile told the officer, according to the Daily Mirror.

Mr Leonard - who had his name changed by the newspaper - reported the incident to his Sergeant but was told that the television star had 'friends in high places' and was ordered to drop it.

The officer said it was well known among police in Leeds that Savile 'liked them young'.

The chilling incident happened in 1965, when Savile was a well-known DJ locally in Leeds, but it was before he found fame on Radio 1.

In the decades after the missed chance to stop him, the paedophile star went on to abuse hundreds of young people across the country.  (more...)

'P*** off, I'm waiting for midnight when she turns 16': What Savile told policeman who found him with a young girl in his parked-up Rolls-Royce