Jimmy Saville exposed

Sir Jimmy Savile said Gary Glitter ‘did no wrong'

Sir Jimmy Savile was recorded saying that disgraced former singer Gary Glitter did nothing wrong when he was arrested for downloading child pornography, it emerged today.
A tape recording is due to be aired during an ITV documentary this week, which accuses the former ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ presenter of sexually abusing young children who were guests on his television shows.

In the tape, recorded in 2009, Savile says: “Now Gary, all he did was to take his computer into PC World to get it repaired. They went into the hard drive, saw all these dodgy pictures and told the police and the police then ’Oh we’ve got a famous person... Oh my goodness, yeah we’ll have them’.
“But Gary has not sold ’em, has not tried to sell ’em, not tried to show them in public or anything like that. It were for his own gratification. Whether it was right or wrong is, of course, it’s up to him as a person. But they didn’t do anything wrong but they are then demonised.”
Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was jailed for four months in the UK in 1999 for downloading child pornography and later jailed for child sex offences in Vietnam.

The documentary about Savile, called ‘Exposure: The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile’, will air the claims of three women from Surrey who say that his alleged abuse often occurred behind a curtain in an alcove in his BBC dressing room, and that he made them perform sex acts on him, in return for sweets, cigarettes and tickets to the BBC1 series Clunk Click, which he hosted in 1973-74.

One also claims that she was present as Savile watched two other television stars — who are both still alive — molest another minor.
Family and friends of Savile, who died in October last year, have angrily condemned the programme and asked why those who made the allegations did not do so while he was alive.
However, the former detective who presents the documentary says his alleged victims “lived in fear” of speaking out against the TV legend.
“We know that children don’t disclose abuse straight away; sometimes that takes a long time, for many, many reasons - their whole life changes, the circumstances change,” Mark Williams-Thomas said.

“And particularly talking out against Sir Jimmy Savile, who of course was a TV legend, [it is] very difficult to talk out about that, and they have been reassured of some confidence by talking now that he has died.”
Last night, Esther Rantzen, the journalist and former television presenter, said that rumours of his allegedly inappropriate behaviour with minors had circulated around television studios for years.
“There was gossip. There were rumours going around all the time that he was behaving inappropriately with children, but you can’t proceed on the basis of rumours alone. I don’t know how far up the TV ladder it went,” she said.

Asked whether former employers of Savile, including the BBC, should further investigate the allegations, Ms Rantzen said: “Yes, I think it would be worth doing that, not from the point of view of casting blame, but for the purpose of finding out who knew what.”