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Sir Jimmy Savile has been branded a sexual predator by a woman who claims he subjected her to sickening abuse as a *schoolgirl.
She is one of five alleged victims who have come forward to tell how the late TV star used his fame to carry out a string of serious sex *attacks, including rape, at the height of his stardom.
Some of the women claim he abused them at a school for *maladjusted girls and on BBC premises, meeting them on shows like Top of the Pops, which he called his ?happy *hunting ground?.
Two say he gave them sexually-transmitted diseases.
The revelations came to light in a bombshell TV investigation carried out by former detective Mark Williams-Thomas. It has left the BBC, where Savile worked for more than 40 years, facing claims that the star?s activities were an ?open secret? among some staff.
Two BBC producers even agreed to speak on camera to Mr Williams-Thomas, with one admitting he thought Savile was abusing young girls. He confesses he didn?t speak out at the time as he feared he?d lose his job because of Savile?s immense influence.
A source who worked on the *programme ? Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, to be screened on ITV1 at 11.10pm Wednesday ? said: ?The BBC has massive *questions to answer. So many people knew, or at least *suspected what was going on, but it was never investigated. The suspicion is that it is because it was one of the BBC?s favourite sons. It?s truly shocking.?
Yesterday the BBC said there was no record of any allegations of misconduct against Savile and therefore no *investigation was undertaken.
Wednesday?s show alleges that Savile abused a girl he visited at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, where he is *considered a hero after raising millions of pounds to build The National Spinal Injuries Centre.
He is also accused of preying on young girls he met at Duncroft Approved School in Surrey. In one chilling incident he allegedly gave a victim a copy of his 1974 autobiography, writing, ?No *escape!!? and signing it, ?Her keeper?.
Mr Williams-Thomas, a leading criminologist and child protection expert, who has written below about making the programme, first talked to an ex-pupil at Duncroft School.
Former Jim?ll Fix It presenter Savile, who was knighted in 1990 for his *charity work, met at least two of his alleged victims at the school, which he visited regularly. One called Fiona told how Savile, once branded ?a man without feelings? after a radio interview with a psychiatrist, abused her several times.
She said: ?It was quite a treat to be taken out by him. The very first time he abused me it was actually in the back of his car. I knew what was expected of me because I was having this wonderful day out and I was expected to pay for it. Nobody believed me then, so I don?t expect anybody to believe me now.
?By the time I?d finished spending some time with him, the wire from my bra had come up over the top of my breast. He?d also had a good fumble around in my knickers. I was expected to masturbate him.? She says he then abused her at BBC Television Centre after inviting a group of Duncroft girls to the set of his show Clunk Click.
She said: ?He had an alcove in his dressing room and he would take you behind the curtain. He often wanted you to sit on his knee, but you could feel him getting an *erection.?
A second ex-Duncroft pupil, Charlotte, was 14 when she first met Savile. She revealed how she was even punished after telling teachers he had assaulted her in his caravan. ?I remember that I sat on his lap. And then I felt this hand sort of go up my jumper and on my breast. I absolutely freaked out.
?Then I was just dragged out of the caravan by two of the staff... and told what a filthy mouth I have, how can I make those terrible accusations, Uncle Jimmy does nothing but good for the school. I was taken to the isolation unit, left there for two or three days.?
Another woman, who was to receive his autobiography with the chilling note inside, is still too scared to reveal her identity despite Savile?s death aged 84 last October. She told how raped her in 1974 when she was just 15 and had sex with her again and again.
She said: ?It was in a London hotel. Before I knew it he had me on the bed and he was having sex with me. It *happened on a number of occasions. It was very, very quick, very unemotional and that was it.?
Another woman claims Savile *attacked her when she was 14 after watching her perform in a choir at Stoke *Mandeville Hospital in 1973. She said: ?After the concert, I ran up to him to let him know I was the one who had sent him a letter about the choir. Before I knew what had happened he?d stuck his tongue into my mouth. ?
The programme also interviews a number of Savile?s former colleagues. One, former BBC production assistant Sue Thompson, told how she once walked into his dressing room while he was kissing and groping a girl.
In a statement yesterday the BBC said: ?Whilst the BBC condemns any behaviour of the type alleged in the strongest terms, in the absence of evidence of any kind found at the BBC that corroborates the allegations that have been made it is simply not possible for the corporation to take any further action.?
Yesterday Sir Jimmy?s family slammed the programme as ?one-sided?. His niece Amanda McKenna said: ?The documentary makers should be ashamed of themselves cashing in on a man who is dead and cannot defend himself.?
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