Jimmy Savile: a strange and sordid life unravels after death

UNITED KINGDOM
The Telegraph

Jimmy Savile’s depraved sexual activities went unchallenged for decades – but the clues were there for all to see in his long-forgotten autobiography

By Neil Tweedie, and Tom Rowley
8:30PM BST 26 Oct 2012

It was the nearest the pop world gets to a royal funeral: the vast cortege processing through crowded streets, the Royal Marine pallbearer party, white-gloved in ceremonial uniform, and, fittingly for a national treasure, a golden coffin. James Wilson Vincent Savile, Knight Bachelor, Papal Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great, was as loud in death as life.

“His story was an epic of giving. Giving of time, giving of talent, giving of treasure,” Monsignor Kieran Heskin informed the congregation. “Sir Jimmy Savile can face eternal life with confidence.”

God would undoubtedly “Fix it”.

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