Savile and the tapes that damn the police: Revealed, the kid-glove treatment that allowed paedophile DJ to escape justice

Savile claimed women flocked to him because of
his work on Top Of The Pops and Radio One

Jimmy Savile ran rings around detectives probing child sex claims against him, according to disturbing transcripts released yesterday.

In a 56-minute interview in 2009, two years before he died, he fobbed off police with lies, bluster and legal threats.

The 83-year-old said accusations from three of his child victims were the ‘complete fantasy’ of people ‘looking for a few quid’.

Savile even boasted he ‘owned’ the NHS hospital at Stoke Mandeville and said he brushed off girls ‘like midges’.

Repeatedly reminding the Surrey detectives of his charity work, he feigned incredulity at each allegation they put to him.

The transcripts show the officers treated Savile with kid gloves and pose the question whether a more determined approach could have led to his prosecution.

In March the policing watchdog HMIC identified 11 failures in the case, including the ‘lack of challenge to Savile’s assertions’.  (more...)

Savile and the tapes that damn the police: Revealed, the kid-glove treatment that allowed paedophile DJ to escape justice