Anyone see Have I Got News For You on Friday?

The clip they showed of him on the show from 1994 was very disturbing to say the least

see the necrophilia has been brought up now

No, do tell.

All they need is a few animals and they really would be flogging a dead horse

clip showed him answering a question about how he lived in a Caravan and when asked what did he do in the caravan his reply was "Anything I can get my hands on..."

No, it was never amazing, not even after The Metro came to town (which I helped to build, have I ever mentioned that ?)

When I say "helped", I mean I stood and watched some other people build it and then I measured it afterwards.

yeah, you built it

Anyone watch the Panorama programme last night?

I have to say, on the basis of the "evidence" presented I can see why Sir Jimmy has never been prosecuted let alone convicted of anything.

It was the flimsiest rumour mongering imagine-able. No way would any of it have stood up in a court of Law. There was one lady who was willing to openly make an accusation against him. She gave an interview last November but even Sir Jimmy's main accuser's, the makers of the shelved BBC documentary said they didn't air whilst he was a live because she "wouldn't have made a reliable libel witness". The producers, when defending themselves about why the chose not to pass evidence to police, said that they thought the evdience was flimsy and of no use to the police. Doesn't that say everything?

On chap said he saw Saville with a girl, both fully slothed and she was "definitely under age, about twelve, maybe 13 or 14. definitely no more than 15." Wow.

Even the odious Gambaccini had no direct accusations but merely rhetoric and rumour.

It saddens me that this media witch hunt continues at great pace without anybody, anybody at all, questioning the quality of evidence put forward by his accusers (not alleged victims)

I watched most of it last night and feel pretty similar to you. Very little evidence at all, and whilst I don't think its been made up, I can see why it never got reported by people inside the BBC. I think the thing which came out of it is why didn't people who were concerned at the time do something about it at a more personal level? Trying to disuade young people from being left alone with him etc.

Overall I think there was enough to convince me that Saville had been very clever about his actions and played his cards right. As a result I think that anything that people thought was wrong was just that, and certainly not evidence.

You're confusing one television programme with an entire prosecution case. Why does the evidence presented about Savile by this one programme have to be able to take down a criminal trial the instant after it's given?

The point is whether this original evidence is strong enough to make a proper police investigation worthwhile, during which more evidence is gathered and *then* it is taken to court. That threshold is comprehensively passed in Savile's case, and several police forces are now gathering full evidence, just as they should have many years ago.

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I have no idea what fog you're trying to knit with that as there was one lady *on that particular programme* who made accusations against Savile. You surely know that many more have been filmed and reported over the past few weeks (and for the shelved Newsnight), and that Panorama used only one accuser's interview because it was a quickly made broader programme flitting between biography of Savile, the seedier side of 70s culture, and the current editorial controversy of Newsnight and the BBC.

Also the "shelved BBC documentary" hadn't even begun production when Savile was alive so I'm not sure what that point was about.

See the Daily Mail headlines today to see what this is really all about.

I wasn't confusing anything at all. I was comment upon how flimsy the accusations in that programme were and commented they would certainly never stand up in court.

Which prosecution case have I got confused with, because there has never been one against JS, rather pertinent don't you think?


It doesn't but it has to have some substance or bare scrutiny otherwise we could all go on television and say what we want about someone. Of course, we would only do that and programme makers would only broadcast such things about an alive person if it stood up to scrutiny. Oh, wait a minute.

What evidence? My point is that last night's programme was severely lacking in evidence. Even the programme makers admitted the evidence wasn't good enough to pass onto the police. That is how they defended themselves against charges that they should have done so.

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There was only one lady on last night's Panorama willing to put her name and face to her accusations, capiche? She was the same lady who came forward to newsnight for the shelved documentary.



I think you are mistaken but it hardly matters when the producer of the Newsnight programme said he didn't think the lady would make "a credible libel witness"

There is a way things are done. They're not done by the media. They're not done by the police. It has been shown, in the last three to four weeks why those bodies are not trustworthy to do them.

It annoys me that there is now widespread acceptance that a man is accepted as being guilty of what he is accused of simply because it's repeated in the media and his accusers says so. It's a very dangerous slope.

My friend's brother's kids (aged 9 and 7) once saw him jogging on Street Lane and ran along side him. The eldest said to him "hi Jimmy" to which he replied "f*ck off you little b*stards".

True story.

This is true and that is where any similarity ends. Wyman was not as far as I'm aware a serial hunter of under age girls. He claims he was unaware of her age which she herself backs up, she lied.

When it was found out Wyman paid the price of the publicity. However it was clearly a relationship based on more than sex as he did marry her as soon as he could - not really the act of your average pedo.

Now again not defending Wyman who really should have known better and was far to old for her even when legal - but to compare with alleged Saville and Glitter...hardly.

And more than enough evidence to secure a conviction of grievous bodily harm against a minor I would have thought. Especially if you said it on TV.

My favourite part of the media coverage is the way he is now only known as "Saville" in headlines. You can hear the journos using their special, deep-toned sinister voices when they say the word.

All the stuff that's been publically recorded from the Leveson sessions, and people are still taking what they read in the press and see on TV as gospel. I despair.

Post-truth politics, post-truth justice. Great times to be alive.

1980 We were working in Leeds central library's doing some painting and we sent the apprentice out for our bacon sarnies for our 9.30 break.The little prat was ages coing back and our tea was cold and we were just about to get up and start work again,and he walked in.He said he had just been chatting to Jimmy Savile in the cafe,great bloke is Jimmy he said kept al the cafe entertained.

I can't remember his exact quote but him not saying anything to anyone as it might have damaged his career was a bit sickening

Trial by media. Nothing new here.

Innocent until proven guilty? Not in this day in age, throw enough poop until the rumour mill kicks in, then all pile in.

Simple question, as I haven't read all the preceeding pages.

Who in all honesty doesn't think Saville is but one of a long line of "celebrities" who thought that the normal standards of behaviour didn't apply to them?

I have no knowledge of his personal traits, and unless you were a close friend, or are a member of his family, I suspect neither does anyone on here. However, the number of people now sticking their heads above the parapet would suggest that the various Police Forces now investigating Saville's activities will be able to reach a conclusion reasonably soon.

I'd have a cheeky pound that Gary Glitter is not the only one to join to the previously sainted Jimmy to be castigated in the Court of Public Opinion, but can I find a bookie to take the bet........

I think there will be lots of squeaky bums among the showbusiness faternity at the moment, any male who has been on TV, radio or in a band that got even moderate chart success will have seen queues of young girls at dressing room doors, its a strange phenominum and probably a primal instinct that some females seem to want to attach themselves to what they perceive as success.

I am with JC on this one and would add that the press campaign IMHO is desigend to deflect attention from any sanctions proposed under the Leviinson report into intrusions into the private affairs of so called celebtities.

They can now cite the Savile affair as a justification for any future actions.

Shame they waited till he was dead first.

THIS.

Maybe the girls would have been throwing themselves at the likes of Marc Bolan and other male pin-ups but I can't really see them throwing themselves at Jimmy Savile.