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politicians and media call Jimmy Savile a sex offender when he was nothing of the sort. A victim of false allegations - yes. Like the woman who claimed he raped her in a public hospital car park.
For me it was the follow up Theroux documentary that swung it for me, but the other way. When his lifelong manager and friend said she never ever saw him behave inappropriately in all the time she was with him. You say the same. And I am more believing those who knew him than those who didn't.
JK2006 wrote: politicians and media call Jimmy Savile a sex offender when he was nothing of the sort. A victim of false allegations - yes. Like the woman who claimed he raped her in a public hospital car park.
There was one woman who claimed he climbed in a hospital window, raped her and fled out the window again.(she said his Roller was parked outside the window)
Records showed the ward she was in was on the 2nd floor.
Still.."believe the victim".
And my previous mentioned woman who claimed he raped her at the BBC when she was there for ToTP and she could never watch the BBC again.
She was interviewed in front her shelves of Doctor Who memorabilia that included dozens of cute Daleks.
That one surprised me as I couldn't understand why the interviewer didn't pick up on an anomaly staring him in the face.
I had remembered this post by Moor Larkin about an EDL member with a Jimmy Savile abuse story and wonder if she was the one with the collection of Doctor Who memorabilia. Right at the bottom of the article, there's a photo apparently from her bedroom with a copy of a Tardis. The article's an interesting read and there's a particularly interesting comment underneath from someone who says they knew her, called e.adams.
We know that a lot of the ridiculous claims about Savile are untrue, and anyway, the man was never charged, let alone convicted, so should be presumed innocent.
It was a vile thing to say.
Honey wrote: We know that a lot of the ridiculous claims about Savile are untrue, and anyway, the man was never charged, let alone convicted, so should be presumed innocent.
It was a vile thing to say.
How come a mere inquiry and Janet Smith was able to basically convict him on her say so and allow everyone to call him an offender just because he was now dead? If he popped back into life tonight nobody would be able to say that until due process had been completed. No arrest, no charges, no convictions means technically innocent in my eyes. Surely the deceased as well as the living should have some basic human rights too? I've always felt something wasn't all quite right with this. I have no idea about the extent of his guilt or not, but justice has to work both ways, for the defendant/accused as well as the victims/accusers.