Jimmy Savile

marchantsuk said:
Carol, I agree it sounds horrible. But... Something about this whole thing stinks.

People are coming out of the woodwork after 30 years, the Met Police have already found him guilty and as for the press; well judge, jury and executioner.
There is no doubt that he was a strange guy, watch the Louis Theroux documentary where he meets him. But the fact remains, the guys dead, he can't defend himself and no one is going to face charges. Just feels like a mob baying for blood.
If guilty then I'm sure we all will be shocked, but the way new stories emerge stinks. Maybe people have known and it's been kept quiet, even his family have removed and destroyed his headstone, why not just keep it in storage until the whole thing is proven or not.
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well said. :thumbsup:
 
marchantsuk said:
Carol, I agree it sounds horrible. But... Something about this whole thing stinks.

People are coming out of the woodwork after 30 years, the Met Police have already found him guilty and as for the press; well judge, jury and executioner.
There is no doubt that he was a strange guy, watch the Louis Theroux documentary where he meets him. But the fact remains, the guys dead, he can't defend himself and no one is going to face charges. Just feels like a mob baying for blood.
If guilty then I'm sure we all will be shocked, but the way new stories emerge stinks. Maybe people have known and it's been kept quiet, even his family have removed and destroyed his headstone, why not just keep it in storage until the whole thing is proven or not.
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My thoughts exactly.
 
I've never forgiven Jimmy Saville after he fixed it for me to meet Gary Glitter backstage.
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It now seems that the police have suddenly produced masses of evidence against Jimmy Savile going back many years. It also appears that they must have been happy for the charitable causes to benefit from the £40m he raised at the time. So they must've known what was going on throughout but thought that his "activities" were the price worth paying for the money he was raising. If Savile was up to no good he should have been charged and tried at the time. Is the fact that Savile died a bachelor leaving a personal fortune behind, the motive for this surfacing now, when the guy cannot defend himself and folk have spied a chance to get some dosh? I very much suspect he was up to no good, but this isn't the way that justice should be played out in the UK.

The likes of Stoke Mandeville hospital and other places receiving money raised by Savile will now been tainted rather than be viewed with affection and prestige, as they were. Somethings are just best forgotten.
 
Seems like lots of people are asking... why now?, and mentioning his estate and press payments etc.
Exactly the point...In other words they are still, even now, not being believed, so why would they have been believed when they were aged 14 laying claims against the 'Pillar of Society' who does so much for charity..
 
1postseller said:
Seems like lots of people are asking... why now?, and mentioning his estate and press payments etc.
Exactly the point...In other words they are still, even now, not being believed, so why would they have been believed when they were aged 14 laying claims against the 'Pillar of Society' who does so much for charity..
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That's a good point. At the time it would've been like accusing Jesus himself of wrongdoing.

There's no doubt in my mind he did what he's being accused of but to what degree we'll never know. Who to believe, we'll never know that either.
I always thought him a bit dodgy, nothing you could put your finger on but I never liked him.
 
I just watched the exposure film on youtube with ranzen at the end. She was crying cos she realised she could've done something but ignored it. Then she goes on to say we all made him a figure that couldn't be touched due to all the good he did.

Then there was the lady who walked in on him with a young girl, and that man who went to the restaurant with him and a young girl and spoke to her in the morning on the phone while she was in bed with saville.

All these people should be charged with something, they all turned a blind eye.

If something is wrong, its wrong and you dont ignore it, but with this sort of thing it gets covered up because of power and money, its not what you know, its who you know.
 
Nosa said:
I've never forgiven Jimmy Saville after he fixed it for me to meet Gary Glitter backstage.
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You Sir have a sense of humour, macabre, but my kind of :wink: humour bearing in mind the subject.
 
His family must be under the most enormous pressure and with no idea what to do. Add me to the list of people uncomfortable with the witch-hunt happening after he died leaving him unable to answer the allegations. I can understand individuals not reporting him if scared of a millionaire and his legal pack, but I'm amazed the bbc, police or hospital didn't do something at the time if it was reported.

Someone is going to need the judgement of Solomon to sort this mess out.
 
Bit of a waste of time.... nothing to gain, masses of resource taken up to prove whether a dead man did something.

Much better to spend the time and resource (police that is) on real crimes that can provide justice.

The papers will conduct a trial by media anyway, no need to go further in a criminal capacity
 
Just don't see the point raking it all up, the guys dead and seems strange all these people speaking out now, genuine and publicity seekers. I imagine people turned a blind eye for a reason, i.e. he was raking in millions for good causes.

Does feel odd that someone who did so much good did so much evil.

Leave the guy alone I say and let him rest in peace or in hell.

Tim.
 
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