UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
[with transcript]
Savile and the tapes that damn the police: Revealed, the kid-glove treatment that allowed paedophile DJ to escape justice
By STEPHEN WRIGHT and MILES GOSLETT
Jimmy Savile ran rings around detectives probing child sex claims against him, according to disturbing transcripts released yesterday.
In a 56-minute interview in 2009, two years before he died, he fobbed off police with lies, bluster and legal threats.
The 83-year-old said accusations from three of his teenage victims were the ‘complete fantasy’ of people ‘looking for a few quid’.
Savile even boasted he ‘owned’ the NHS hospital at Stoke Mandeville and said he brushed off girls ‘like midges’.
Repeatedly reminding the Surrey detectives of his charity work, he feigned incredulity at each allegation they put to him.
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