Jimmy Savile Performed Sex Acts On Dead Bodies At Leeds General Infirmary (VIDEO)

Jimmy Savile Performed Sex Acts On Dead Bodies At Leeds General Infirmary
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Claims that Jimmy Savile may have sexually interfered with dead bodies are some of the most shocking revelations yet about the disgraced broadcaster. Investigators at Leeds General Infirmary were told that Savile admitted performing sex acts on the dead in the hospital mortuary.

And a patient at Barnet General, in London, overheard nurses discussing how they had seen Savile have sex with a dead body at another hospital. The Leeds investigators described how a woman told them how Savile made the claims to her when she was training as a nurse at Broadmoor in the 1970s.

The report said: "This witness went on to tell us that Savile claimed that when it was quiet at night at the Infirmary, he visited the mortuary and interfered with the bodies of deceased patients at the infirmary, including claiming to have performed sex acts on the bodies."

This witness was quoted in the report saying: "He went on to relate how they set the bodies - he kept saying 'they', so he, he couldn't have been on his own with this - how they set the bodies - that what happens when before you - well, rigor mortis sets in, you can move the body into different, sort of, stances or formations. And, apparently, he (Savile), he was saying that they used to put the bodies together, male and female, and he also said that they took photographs and also that he got involved in some of the photographs.

"I mean, I - I was a little bit upset because I had no concept, in those days, of - while I'd heard of necrophilia, because of a virtue of - several of the Broadmoor patients would've been diagnosed with that, but I didn't fully understand what it meant, and part, part way through I just wandered off...

"Well - he (Savile) used the phrase that you don't - it's not so common nowadays, he talked about gamaroosh... It means oral sex... Well, that he (Savile), he'd go down on them and gamaroosh and muck about in that way." The report said: "We have no way of proving Savile's claim that he interfered with the bodies of deceased patients in the mortuary in this way. However, we sought the opinion of an expert, to establish if the acts claimed were theoretically possible."

A former patient at Barnet General said that nurses in 1983 told her Savile "liked to have sex with dead bodies". Today's report said: "She described having a conversation with the nurses in which they allegedly said they spied on JS when they worked at another hospital and observed him having sex with a dead body.

"The witness confirmed that this was not something that happened at BGH and she thought that it had happened at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, but could not be certain of that." The Leeds investigators found that Savile had an interest in the dead, was friendly with the chief mortician at the hospital and, in his role as a voluntary porter, would have had easy access to the mortuary due to lax security.

The DJ even bragged that large rings he wore were "made from the glass eyes of dead bodies at the mortuary". The report said: "We established that Savile visited the mortuary in his role as a volunteer porter, and that he visited it socially to meet his friend, who was the chief mortician until the mid-1990s.

"However, we also heard more macabre accounts of Savile speaking and possibly acting unacceptably in relation to the mortuary. Two witnesses told us that Savile claimed to have had jewellery made from glass eyes taken from bodies in the mortuary at the infirmary. Whether these claims were made merely to shock his listeners, they again indicate and reinforce the notion of Savile's fascination with the bodies of the deceased."

One witness told the investigators: "I looked at his hands and he had these gross, big silver rings with bulbous things and I sort of went, 'Yes, mm,' always be polite to your superstar, 'Yes, Jim.' "And he said, 'D'you know what they are? They are glass eyes from dead bodies in Leeds Mortuary where I work and I love working there, and I wheel the dead bodies around at night and I love that.' "

Another former worker quoted in the report said: "I do remember seeing this ring he had on that looked like an eyeball and - and I must've mentioned it to him and he said 'It's made from the eyeball of a dead friend'." Today's report discussed how Savile had openly talked about his interest in the dead in media interviews over the years.

He told one interviewer about spending five days with the dead body of his mother. The investigators said: "In light of the claims about the glass eye jewellery and Savile's interference with the bodies of the deceased, it is evident his interest in the mortuary was not within accepted boundaries."

Jimmy Savile Abuse Timeline
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Jimmy Savile in 1961 around the time he was working for Radio Luxembourg. He is at London Airport with Pan American stewardess Birgit Johansson with two gold discs; one is for American singer Elvis Presley for having sold one million copies of "It's Now or Never" in the UK, and the other is for Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker (credit:PA)
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Cilla Black and Jimmy Savile before a Variety Club Luncheon at the Savoy Hotel. Taken in 1964, the year Savile became the first presenter of Top of the Pops (credit:PA)
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Two women have come forward with allegations from the 1960s, one who was 14 and another who was a teenager when she claims Savile sexually abused her in Scarborough (credit:PA)
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Savile in 1969 with Physically Handicapped and Able-Bodied (PHAB) member Erika Mentz from Germany and other PHAB members at a dance at Devonshire House (credit:PA)
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1969 also saw Savile begin volunteering at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital for specialist spinal injuries. He would later be given a room there (credit:PA)
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Jimmy Savile presenting a cheque to children on behalf of the NSPCC in 1969 (credit:PA)
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The 1970s saw Savile start volunteering at Leeds General Infirmary and... (credit:PA)
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... Broadmoor secure high-security psychiatric hospital. Allegations by former patients have been made against Savile although ex-workers have disputed the idea that he could have been left alone with anyone whilst working there (credit:PA)
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The 70s also saw the start of Jim'll Fix It. Allegations from this period include Caroline Moore, a 13-year-old patient at Stoke Mandeville hospital in 1971, who says Savile "rammed his tongue" down her throat and another allegation accuses Savile of molesting a brain-damaged teenage patient at Leeds General Infirmary in 1972 (credit:PA)
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The 1980s saw the continuation of Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It as Savile became a much loved household name. Two allegations relating to this time include one from a then-15-year-old girl (not pictured) who made a complaint of abuse by Savile in Lancashire. Pictured is 12-year-old Rebecca Heap (credit:PA)
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Savile at the Stoke Mandeville hospital with injured children from Beirut in 1987 (credit:PA)
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Savile was knighted in 1990 and continued his charity work throughout the decade (credit:PA)
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Savile was questioned in 2007 by police about allegations of sexual abuse but the Crown Prosecution service says there is not enough evidence to warrant a prosecution (credit:PA)
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A 2008 police report into abuse at the Haut de Garenne children's home in Jersey names Savile, although this is never made public (credit:PA)
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Savile re-united with his Jim'll Fix It chair in 2009. The previous year Sussex police received a complaint of sexual assault but went on to say the victim was "unwilling to co-operate in any investigation" (credit:PA)
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Jimmy Savile is found dead at the age of 84 in October 2011. He is buried in Scarborough (credit:PA)
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In December 2011 the BBC drop an investigation by Newsnight into the allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile. Three tribute programmes are aired instead (credit:PA)
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ITV airs a documentary, 'Exposure, the Other Side of Jimmy Savile', in which a number of women claim they were abused by Savile as youngsters, including Karin Ward (pictured) (credit:ITV)
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Within days of the documentary, many more allegations surface. By the 9 October Peter Spindler of the Metropolitan Police tells the BBC: "It is quite clear from what women are telling us that Savile was a predatory sex offender" (credit:PA)
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11 October 2012 and George Entwistle, Director General of the BBC, asks journalists why the Newsnight programme was dropped as police from Tayside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and North Yorkshire police say they are investigating allegations going back to 1959 (credit:PA)
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12 October and police reveal they have 340 potential lines of inquiry (credit:PA)
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15 October sees a man come forward alleging that Savile abused him when he was a nine-year-old boyscout (credit:PA)
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Savile's family removed his headstone from his grave and broke it up in the wake of the furore (credit:PA)
Jimmy Savile sexually abuses transgender man(24 of24)
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A transgender man comes forward alleging that Jimmy Savile 'stuck his hand up his nightdress' while he was a 17-year-old teenage girl at Broadmoor in the 1970's. More here http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/15/jimmy-savile-timeline-abuse-allegations_n_1966426.html?1350304573#slide=1641388 (credit:PA)