A Predatory Sex Offender

A charmer, big smile, big cigar, dressed to the nines.  A celebrity, no less, and a hugely respected figure as a fund-raiser for charitable works.  Titled, as well, Sir Jim Savile was.

Second home: Jimmy Savile in a 1992 interview about his work at Stoke Mandeville where he 'lived'

"The scale of the allegations against Sir Jimmy Savile is quite staggering.  I do not think what is alleged to have happened at Stoke Mandeville Hospital is acceptable in a decent society.  If it is true, as alleged by ex-staff, that they were warned about Savile by hospital managers, they are complicit in the most disturbing of crimes."  Rob Wilson, Conservative British MP

The thing of it is, this man dead now a year, had helped to raise a staggering $63-million for the  spinal injuries centre at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamsire, northwest of London.  He was a long, very long-term volunteer at the hospital.  So well established there that he had free use of an apartment located within the hospital.

From whence he could sally out at will to visit patients and make them feel better about themselves, cheering them up enormously, because out of the goodness of his heart, he simply had that kind of character.  The hospital is now under great public pressure to set up an enquiry about the issue of having installed a sex deviant on their grounds, allowing him access to vulnerable, ill children.

Even the venerable BBC is coming under scrutiny in the matter.  For he was a television host and while doing his charity work he also assaulted victims in his dressing room at the British Broadcasting Corporation.  There are allegations that it was an "open secret" at the Beebe, but executives saw no evil, heard no evil, spoke no evil.  Savile was a popular figure.

A former detective who investigated complaints in relation to the hospital had an unfulfilling communication with authorities at Stoke Mandeville.  "I was not believed.  I think purely because, at that stage and for many, many years, Savile was an icon", explained John Lindsay.

"We are unaware of any record or reports of inappropriate behaviour of this nature during Jimmy's work with the trust", coolly stated a spokesman for the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust which operates the hospital.

One of his long-running programs involving making children's wishes come true was titled Jim'll Fix It.  He was knighted for his charity work in 1990.  Girls on the children's ward of the Stoke Mandeville were told by staff to "pretend to be asleep" during Mr. Savile's prowls through the wards looking for young patients to abuse.

So far, over 100 allegations of abuse by this knighted figure are being investigated by thirteen police forces across the country.  "At this stage it is quite clear from what women are telling us that Savile was a predatory sex offender", said Commander Peter Spindler, one of the officers leading