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Quando adolescente, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, Savile trabalhou em minas de carvão como Bevin Boy e teria sofrido lesões na coluna. Ele começou uma carreira tocando discos e, mais tarde, gerenciando salões de dança. Aos 20 anos, ele era um lutador profissional.
26 de jun. de 2014 · Investigação revelou que 'filantropo' Jimmy Savile, morto em 2011, cometeu vários tipos de abusos em 28 hospitais da Grã-Bretanha.
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile OBE KCSG ( / ˈsævɪl /; 31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English media personality and DJ. He hosted the BBC shows Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It. During his lifetime, Savile was well known in the United Kingdom for his eccentric image and charitable work.
26 de fev. de 2015 · O falecido apresentador da BBC britânica Jimmy Savile abusou sexualmente de 63 pessoas, incluindo muitas crianças, em um hospital para o qual arrecadava fundos e onde tinha acesso livre aos quartos, segundo um relatório divulgado nesta quinta-feira.
- Background
- Journalism
- Further Allegations
- Police and Related Investigations
- Department of Health Investigations
- Department For Education
- Call For Single Inquiry
- Aftermath
- In Popular Culture
Savile's autobiography, As It Happens (1974), contains admissions of criminal behaviour, apparently without Savile's self-incrimination being noticed. He would joke to the press when they phoned him: "She told me she was over 16."Press investigations dating back to at least 1973 did not lead to the publication of any direct accusations being made a...
Aborted Newsnight report
Savile died on 29 October 2011, aged 84. At the time of his death and funeral in Leeds Cathedral, he was widely praised for his charity and voluntary activities as well as his entertainment work. Immediately after Savile's death, Meirion Jones and Liz Mackean from the BBC programme Newsnight began to investigate reports that he had sexually abused children. They interviewed one alleged victim on camera and talked to others who were willing to be quoted about alleged abuse at Duncroft Approved...
Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile
An ITV documentary, Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, was broadcast on 3 October 2012. It was researched and presented by Mark Williams-Thomas, the former police investigator who had previously been involved in the shelved Newsnightinvestigation. Several women interviewed by Exposure said that, as teenagers, they had been sexually abused by Savile. It was also said Savile obtained access to teenage girls through his television programmes Top of the Pops and Clunk, Click (1973–74), and...
BBC comments and investigations
Newspaper reports claimed Douglas Muggeridge, controller of BBC Radio 1 in the early 1970s, was aware of allegations against Savile, and asked for a report in 1973. Derek Chinnery, controller of Radio 1 from 1978 to 1985, recalled an occasion when he confronted Savile, saying, "I asked, 'What's all this, these rumours we hear about you, Jimmy?' And he said, 'That's all nonsense'. There was no reason to disbelieve." Michael Grade told Channel 4 News that during his time at the BBC he had "flee...
Following the broadcast of the ITV documentary, many people came forward to make allegations about Savile's conduct towards young people. Some abuse was said to have taken place on BBC premises.It was claimed that Savile had abused at least one boy as well as numerous girls. Claims were made about Savile's activities in hospitals. It was claimed th...
Operation Yewtree
The Metropolitan Police Service stated on 4 October 2012 that its Child Abuse Investigation Command would lead a process of assessing the allegations. By 9 October the Metropolitan Police had formally recorded eight allegations against Savile, but announced that it was following up 120 lines of inquiry, addressing up to 25 alleged victims of abuse, mainly girls aged between 13 and 16. These covered a period spanning four decades, from 1959 until the 1980s, and were on "a national scale". An i...
Crown Prosecution Service
On 24 October 2012 the Crown Prosecution Service said the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, would review the service's decisions not to prosecute Savile in 2009 in relation to four claims against him for sexual abuse dating back to the 1970s. The report, prepared by the Principal Legal Advisor to the DPP, Alison Levitt QC, was published on 11 January 2013. It found that, if police and prosecutors had taken a different approach towards the allegations, prosecutions could have been...
HMIC assessment of police investigations
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, announced on 6 November 2012 that Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabularywould also carry out an assessment of all the investigations relating to Savile undertaken by police forces across the country, examine whether allegations were properly investigated, and identify any related issues. On 12 March 2013 a report entitled "Mistakes were made: HMIC's review into allegations and intelligence material concerning Jimmy Savile between 1964 and 2012" was publish...
The Department of Health announced that former barrister Kate Lampard would chair the department's investigations into Savile's activities at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Leeds General Infirmary, Broadmoor Hospital and other hospitals and facilities in England. In October 2013 the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, announced that inquiries h...
A report for the Department for Education reached no firm conclusions over whether Savile had abused children or staff when visiting schools and children's homes, or hosting shows at which they had been invited to attend, between the 1960s and 1980s. The report, published on 26 February 2015, brought together the findings of various investigations ...
On 8 November 2012 the Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, called in Parliament for a single, overarching public inquiry to examine all recent allegations of child abuse, including those relating to the North Wales child abuse scandal and those related to Savile. This was supported by former minister Tim Loughtonand the NSPCC. An overarching pane...
Savile's family asked "out of respect to public opinion" that his gravestone be taken from the cemetery where his body is buried. Scarborough Borough Council and funeral directors removed it "under cover of night"and sent it to landfill. It was announced that Savile's inscription in the wall of Leeds Civic Hall would be removed in October 2012. In ...
In June 2015, a stage play about Savile and the scandal was premiered at Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, London. Titled An Audience with Jimmy Savile, it was written by Jonathan Maitland and starred Alistair McGowanas Savile. In 2016, an episode of series 3 of the TV programme Line of Duty, had a photo of Savile doctored to include two of the progra...
26 de fev. de 2015 · Jimmy Savile, ex-apresentador da BBC falecido há quatro anos e que foi uma autêntica celebridade no Reino Unido durante décadas, abusou de 63 pessoas entre 1968 e 1992 num hospital da...
10 de out. de 2023 · A new TV drama sees Steve Coogan play Jimmy Savile, one of the UK's most notorious paedophiles.
