Savile

[vernonk]

Tonight's Louis Theroux prog as strange as its subject, Jimmy Savile. Of course I don't condone what Savile is alleged to have done, but that's all there have been...allegations. He never stood trial for anything in his lifetime, and nothing in this programme proved anything either. What do you think?

[Baldric]

No smoke without fire.

[tonyav]

I think the allegations against him are true.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/jimmy-savile-gropes-teenager-in-newly-emerged-louis-theroux-footage/ar-BBwTtZn?li=BBoPWjQ

[douglas9401]

I think he was a weird as a bottle of chips and he's dead now so let's get on with our lives.
The lawyers will have his cash in the end and you can't buy bread and milk with 'justice', whatever that is.

[ichkeria]

One or two other people still in denial, if this fascinating programme is anything to go by.
I did feel sorry for the Stoke Mandeville lady.
We should never forget these offences or stop asking how he got away with them while alive

[Mamyalynne]

I think Louis has revisited this is some ways to confront some of the guilt he feels not having done more after his first documentary.

I don't think anything he had said or done back then would have made any difference.

[ummmm]

I don't doubt the allegations and never had. Abusers tend to follow pattern and the amount of people that came forward, who had never met or even knew about each other, telling a very similar makes it a certainty.

And remember...it wasn't just his victims who came forward and some did come forward while he was alive, it was also people that worked with him or had his company forced of them.

[anneasquith]

What do I think. ? I can't quite believe anyone would ask that question.

[ummmm]

Divebuddy - he was committing these crimes for 50 odd years.

[Mamyalynne]

I was answering about tonight's documentary but now see the question was asked before it ended so maybe my comments are extraneous, I do however stand by them.

[ummmm]

My abuser didn't get prosecuted.

[ummmm]

Sad, isn't it? Imagine how his poor victims must feel!

[jno]

being dead, Savile is neither guilty nor innocent. Bones don't have innocence. But the country still needs to confront the massive systemic failure that let Savile loose. Unfortunately the great child abuse inquiry just seems to be crashing into one brick wall after another.

[ummmm]

Except they have video footage of him being a groper...

[Answerprancer]

I type this without the influence of comments below (which I have not read as I type this).

Fascination and disgust.

I can see the good he did and also the dark person he turned out to be.
I see one ***ed up individual who also did a whole lot of good and I am as confused as a lot of other people clearly are too.

He effectively saved lots of lives while effectively damaging lots of others by all accounts.

Part of me hates him and part of me would like to confront and talk to him if he were still alive.

I met and spoke to him when I was a kid ...which freaks me out a bit.

[woofgang]

Well I think that Savile, even dead is either guilty or innocent....ie he did what he is accused of or he didn’t....the problem is that we will never know in law which it is or to what extent.

[hereIam]

I haven't watched it yet, but I know there is a part in it where he groped a young girl in front of her mother. He had no shame.

[ichkeria]

"Innocent until proven guilty" goes out the window if the person is dead.
No one is putting Savile on trial.
Just giving people the chance to work out their feeling about him, which are complex in many cases.