Jimmy Saville

[Caribeing]

Pains me to even type his name but he must go down in History as one of the most evil men ever!!

[EDDIE51]

He was appointed 'Director of Fundraising' on Thatcher's personal instructions specifically to ensure he had unlimited access to anywhere in the hospital.

[EDDIE51]

I would add that the post of 'Director of Fundraising' was also invented by Thatcher specifically for Savile. She specified that it must include unlimited unsupervised access to all departments .

[Bazile]

He'll come back as a fly , and then you can swat him

[New Judge]

And of course as mushroom has quite rightly pointed out, the allegations againt Savile have never been tested. I'm fairly sure that with such a large number of similar allegations there must be some truth to the rumours. But there does seem to be an air of unconditional acceptance of these allegations when, in many other similar situations, the usual cries of "innocent until proven guilty" raise their heads.

[retrocop]

Well some who idolise the late Princess of Wales also had Savile as a regular guest of hers at Kensington Palace. Fact. So Maggie wasn't the only one duped.
What gets my goat particularly is Ms Ester Rantzen. You know the one who championed the cause of abused childen and promoted Childline. She admitted that,after the Savile disclosure, it was the best known secret within the BBC where she worked at the time but valued her job more than the plight of defenceless children. She and the BBC are almost as bad as Savile.

[Ric.ror]

When he died the local tv news eulogized him - even reporting live from his funeral. The two presenters spoke so warmly of him - and they knew him well too. To my mind that blows out the theory that everyone knew what he was up to.
They even had his nephew on to defend him when the allegations very first came to light

[grasscarp]

I am probably one of the only Answerbank person who actually met him and even spent an evening with him. I can only say that he hid his dark side.

[andy-hughes]

Not sure if anything useful is to be gained by trying to place Savile in some sort of 'hierarchy' of evil.

All the people mentioned have done evil things, but if we were to rank them in some sort of Top (Bottom?) Twenty, then ... what?

It solves nothing.

[Canary42]

So, some say, we musn't vilify him because he was never brought to justice and found guilty.

Time to sanitise Adolf Hitler then.

[andy-hughes]

Canary 42 //So, some say, we musn't vilify him because he was never brought to justice and found guilty.

Time to sanitise Adolf Hitler then.//

Not sure if your post was a response to mine?

If so, you are 'answering' a point I did not make.

I have not suggested that Savile should not be vilified - only that trying to put his dreadful crimes in some sort of imaginary rogues gallery is not helpful to anyone.

Underlining the revulsion everyone feels at Savile's activities is not good for people - and before anyone leaps to the 'opposite' conclusion - that is not the same as saying that we should pretend it didn't happen, or forget what he has done.

It means that dwelling on an aspect that goes nowhere is not good for anyone.