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Ripper: Savile is innocent
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By ROBIN PERRIE
Published: 15 minutes ago
Source: TheSun
YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe insists his old mate Jimmy Savile is innocent — and the paedophile DJ’s hundreds of victims are “jumping on the bandwagon”.
Sutcliffe, befriended by Savile during his Broadmoor visits, said on a tape leaked to The Sun: “It’s a load of rubbish. People are just getting carried away.”
Serial killer Sutcliffe claims Savile is being victimised — by the hundreds of tormented individuals who are revealing how the vile DJ abused them.
Sutcliffe even claimed he could personally vouch for his mate.
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Speaking on the tape, he said: “I can’t fault him from my experiences of what he was like. I don’t care what these people who are coming out of the woodwork are saying.
“He visited a lot. He’d always come and chat with me on visits and I would introduce him to my visitors. Several times he left £500 for charities I was supporting. He wrote cheques out on the spot, a very generous man he was.”
Savile is accused of having abused more than 300 youngsters - including molesting a teenage female Broadmoor patient. But Sutcliffe, who murdered and mutilated 13 women, poured scorn on the claims of those Savile attacked.
He said: “Coming forward after 40 or 50 years or whatever, they are jumping on the bandwagon.
“It only takes a couple of rumours and then it goes like wildfire. I don’t believe he raped anyone. I think he kissed quite a few young women but that’s as far as he’s gone.
“It’s just going crazy, they love to savage people who are dead, people who can’t hit back — or prisoners who can’t reply.”
Sutcliffe also dismissed claims that Savile, who died last year aged 84, molested a 1970s Broadmoor patient during his many visits to the secure hospital.
Free to roam ... paedo DJ Jimmy Savile inside Broadmoor
On the tape he tells a pal, who has asked to remain anonymous: “Oh that’s a load of rubbish. It’s a load of crap.
“People were always there. He was never alone with anybody, there were always people about. He never did anything at Broadmoor.
“They are just getting carried away — going right over the top.”
The tape provides further disturbing evidence of the close links between Savile and Sutcliffe.
Serial killer expert David Wilson has already called for an inquiry into whether the pair knew each other before Sutcliffe was caught.
It came after The Sun revealed Sutcliffe killed third victim Irene Richardson yards from Savile’s flat in Roundhay, Leeds, in 1977.
One of Savile’s abuse victims yesterday urged police to investigate links between the pair — and whether the DJ had killed.
The victim said: “Sutcliffe and Savile are two peas in a pod.
“It’s quite fitting the only person to stick up for Savile is Sutcliffe. They deserve each other.
“The police now need to seriously investigate the possibility that Jimmy Savile was a child killer.”
Menace on wards ... Jimmy Savile hugs Broadmoor patient during hospital visit
Another Savile victim — a former paperboy who was abused in the DJ’s Leeds flat in 1975 — said he believed Savile would have easily resorted to violence.
He added: “I was gobsmacked at first to hear the things Sutcliffe said. But they aren’t that surprising when you think about it. The whole country has the same opinion of Sutcliffe and has had for 30 years. Now everyone has the same opinion of Savile.
“I am seriously wondering now if Savile could also have been a killer. I know from first hand experience what he is capable of.
“And if he didn’t get what he wanted who’s to say he wouldn’t have killed to get it?”
Forensic psychologist Dr Ian Stephen said he believed Savile was capable of murder as his sick cravings grew. He added: “It is possible that he upped the game.”
Sutcliffe, 66, was sent to Broadmoor in 1984 after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Four years later Savile was appointed to lead a task force overseeing management restructuring at the Berkshire hospital despite having no administrative experience. He had his own keys to the hospital and roamed at will.
Staff at Broadmoor were shocked - because many felt Savile should have been a patient.
Ex-staff nurse Bob Allen said: “I’d say he was a psychopath. A lot of the staff said he should be behind bars. We used to laugh about it in those days.”
Fellow nurse Richard Harrison said paedophile patients “gravitated towards” Savile and that rumours about him were common.
He said: “I’d long considered him, as my colleagues did, as a man with a severe personality disorder and a liking for children.”
The Health Department is investigating the decision to appoint Savile.
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