[danielf]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Just more opinion, speculation, from one of many unimportant bloggers.

I'm not saying he's innocent, guilty or anything.

But he's being trialed, judged and sentenced by the media, and social media and he is not in a position to defend himself, or indeed be interviewed.

So all we will ever hear on this matter is one side of the story, and that is not how it's supposed to work.

If he's alleged to have done anything, then by all means let it be investigated thoroughly by the police and let them advise on their findings.

He now can never win, so to speak, if he's found guilty in his abscence - which may be difficult. Then so be it.

However, if there is no real evidence brought forward to be heard, then the rumours and stories will exist forever against him.

Yes, I'm well aware of that. Which is why, when I started reading up on him, I took the rumours and allegations as just that, and was highly skeptical of the rumours. However it quickly dawned on me, in no small part through Savile's own remarks, it was actually highly likely that the rumours were true. In a way, Savile's own remarks and writings are even more damning than the rumours:

'we live in a very funny world and it's easier for me as a single man to say 'I don't like children' because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.''

On camera, to Louis Theroux, when asked 'why he hated children'.

Savile said: “Now Gary, all he did was to take his computer into PC World to get it repaired.

“They went into the hard drive, saw all these dodgy pictures and told the police and the police then said, ‘Oh we’ve got a famous person, yeah we’ll have them’.

“But Gary hasn’t sold ’em, hasn’t tried to sell ’em, not tried to show them in public or anything like that.

“It were for his own gratification. Whether it was right or wrong is of course up to him as a person.

“And if you ever said to that copper, ‘What’s Gary Glitter done wrong?’ Well nothing really. He’s just sat at home watching these dodgy, dodgy films.”

On camera, to Louis Theroux

"thou shall not be found out"

Savile's contribution (Entitled 'The Eleventh Commandment') to a 1991 charity book entitled, Over 500 Trouble-Saving Ideas From The Famous, The Efficient and The Wise.

According to Phil Dampier

I often had cause to ring him at home, and before I even said why I was calling he’d reply: “She told me she was 16 and I had no reason to doubt her!”

And there's a lot more if we take what others claim he's said into consideration. Couple that with the fact that (so far) 10 women claim to have been assaulted by him, and it's time to wake up and smell the coffee.

'Sir Jimmy Saville' in all likelihood was a serial rapist and Paedophile, and we've probably only scratched the surface of what he's been up to.

---------- Post added at 16:51 ---------- Previous post was at 16:41 ----------

May I ask who's removed the poll? It was only added today, and the OP started the thread 5 days ago. I don't think regular members can add a poll after 5 days, so it would appear that the poll was added and removed by one of the mods (though not necessarily the same one), which doesn't seem very consistent?