Powerful piece about #JimmySavile by #MarkLawson. While researching our book, Scandal at #DolphinSquare, we discovered that Savile's agent had lived in the Square. Here's what he once said about Savile. A lesson in how abusers hide in plain sight. (Thread) theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
In 1998 he gave an interview saying:
'He’s got a couple of caravans down Bournemouth way that he puts poor or ill people into for a week in the summer. He’s also got a room at the hospital and another room at Broadmoor...
'He’s got a couple of caravans down Bournemouth way that he puts poor or ill people into for a week in the summer. He’s also got a room at the hospital and another room at Broadmoor...
He goes down to the hospital and he’s there all day, and sometimes I say ‘Would you like to come down the road and have a drink?’ and he says ‘I can’t.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I’ve promised this fellow who normally sits in with the corpses that he can have the night off.'
(Original interview transcript here.) vinylmemories.wordpress.com/tag/jimll-fix-…
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