Chris

I quite agree - because truth is always a lot more complex and nuanced than fiction.

We don't like the idea that a man who has done something evil might also have done something good. It messes with our own innate need to draw a simple, straight line between 'good' and 'bad', preferably with ourselves on the right side of it.

Interfering with teenage girls was, it seems, Jimmy Savile's guilty secret, and if he did what is alleged half a dozen times, it seems to me that he probably did it a whole lot more - he certainly had the opportunity.

I would suggest that his frankly massive, long-term charity work is more likely evidence of an attempt to pay for what he must have known, on some level, was totally unacceptable behaviour.