UNITED KINGDOM
Mirror
Jimmy Savile abused schoolgirls in the vestry of a Catholic cathedral, new testimony claims.
In an appalling new low, the disgraced star is said to have lain in wait at a weekly Mass attended by girls aged between five and nine.
An ex-pupil of the school involved, who wishes to remain anonymous, says Savile – given a papal knighthood by the Pope in 1990 – was banned from the cathedral in his home city of Leeds over claims he molested girls there.
The woman says pupils at her nearby primary school, now closed, were told by teachers not to sit near Savile, who always arrived before them when they visited Leeds Cathedral in the 1960s. She says there were rumours at the time that the DJ, whose flat was nearby, abused a young girl in the vestry only yards from unsuspecting priests.
“I remember it so very clearly,” she says. “As we trooped in he would be waiting. He would turn and grin. We were told to sit away from him, because of talk he had taken a girl into the vestry. Despite that, teachers and priests let him stay.
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