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Who Exactly Was Jimmy Savile?
Who exactly was Jimmy Savile?
By what hidden process did a charmless oik with questionable talents as an entertainer come to own the keys to every door in the kingdom- from Broadmoor and Leeds Royal infirmary to Buckingham Palace and Number Ten?
I didn't watch the BBC drama-doc with Steve Coogan- because I didn't think it would answer these questions- and, from what I've read, it didn't. Instead I watched a video in which Shaun Attwood the former drug smuggler and Jon Wedger the whistleblowing former cop indulged in speculation.
Wedger sketched out a timeline in which Savile first edged into the underworld as a guy who ran clubs in Leeds. There he got into the habit of corrupting policemen and found a niche- as a paedophile himself- in pimping children to people too grand to go trawling the streets and railway stations themselves. Somewhere along the line he found himself servicing the needs of Louis Mountbatten and other very important people- gathering information of a kind the intelligence service covets and for which they'll trade impunity and protection. He was smart, he was intrusive, he was a fixer- and eventually there wasn't a string in the cats cradle of association and dependency that makes up the British establishment that he couldn't tweak....
He was the British Epstein. Unlike Epstein he hid in plain sight- which may have been a better strategy than just hiding- as witness their comparative longevity...
if only we could be sure of the facts...
By what hidden process did a charmless oik with questionable talents as an entertainer come to own the keys to every door in the kingdom- from Broadmoor and Leeds Royal infirmary to Buckingham Palace and Number Ten?
I didn't watch the BBC drama-doc with Steve Coogan- because I didn't think it would answer these questions- and, from what I've read, it didn't. Instead I watched a video in which Shaun Attwood the former drug smuggler and Jon Wedger the whistleblowing former cop indulged in speculation.
Wedger sketched out a timeline in which Savile first edged into the underworld as a guy who ran clubs in Leeds. There he got into the habit of corrupting policemen and found a niche- as a paedophile himself- in pimping children to people too grand to go trawling the streets and railway stations themselves. Somewhere along the line he found himself servicing the needs of Louis Mountbatten and other very important people- gathering information of a kind the intelligence service covets and for which they'll trade impunity and protection. He was smart, he was intrusive, he was a fixer- and eventually there wasn't a string in the cats cradle of association and dependency that makes up the British establishment that he couldn't tweak....
He was the British Epstein. Unlike Epstein he hid in plain sight- which may have been a better strategy than just hiding- as witness their comparative longevity...
if only we could be sure of the facts...